The Wolverines will have a new starting point guard next season.
Grad transfer Mike Smith announced in an Instagram post on Wednesday that he won’t return for an extra season at Michigan and will pursue a professional career.
“All my life I dreamed of playing in the NBA, but I have always been the underdog!” Smith wrote in his post. “I have always been told I was too small or that I wasn’t good enough to play at the next level. I never listened to them and I still don’t.
“No matter what anybody said, I kept working and betting on myself.