One by one, the dominoes have fallen.
Charles Matthews. Jordan Poole. John Beilein. Ignas Brazdeikis. Luke Yaklich.
Michigan’s three leading scorers, the program’s all-time winningest coach and the team’s defensive guru are all leaving Ann Arbor, and leaving new coach Juwan Howard to pick up the pieces.
Undoubtedly a tough task awaits Howard, but it’s far from the situation former college stars like Penny Hardaway (Memphis), Patrick Ewing (Georgetown) and Chris Mullin (St. John’s) had to inherit at their scuffling alma maters.