Michigan basketball received a commitment from a high-profile transfer on Friday with Princeton guard Jaelin Llewellyn pledging to the Wolverines. However, for weeks, it appeared that the maize and blue were going to be getting a different guard: Texas Tech’s Terrance Shannon Jr.
Shannon committed to Illinois on Friday, hours after the Llewellyn pledge became public. There were whispers that the reason why Shannon didn’t come to Ann Arbor was due to the University of Michigan’s rigid admissions office, and while there could be some truth to some of that (Shannon was going to reportedly be taken as a grad transfer, which would require summer classes), it appears that there was something nefarious afoot.