Jose Perez is a name some hardcore fans will recognize and after entering the transfer portal this week, the former Gardner-Webb guard could be a fit for Michigan basketball.
If the same sounds familiar, you might recognize it from the 2019 NCAA tournament. Perez was on a scrappy Gardner-Webb squad that pushed top-seeded Virginia in the first round the year the Cavaliers went on to win the national championship.
Perez was the high scorer in the game for Gardner-Webb and was 7-of-10 from the field, finishing with 19 points. That was as a freshman. He averaged 15 points per game that season and averaged of 15 a game this past season too, however, after a tough campaign, where Perez struggled to shoot, he announced he was leaving.