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Michigan basketball star earns third-team mid-season All-American

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Dusty May has the Michigan men's basketball team playing some good basketball as the Wolverines are fully in Big Ten play. The No. 20 Wolverines fell to then-winless (in conference play) Minnesota on Thursday night, but the maize and blue are still sitting pretty with a 13-4 overall record and are also 5-1 in conference play.

As almost everyone knows, Michigan is practically a new team from last year. Only three scholarship players returned from the Juwan Howard era and May went out and landed big-time transfers from the portal. Arguably the biggest get for May was former Yale big man, Danny Wolf.

With the midseason here, Fox Sports' John Fanta revealed his midseason All-American teams and Fanta had Wolf as a third-team All-American for his play with Michigan.

Wolf is the lone Wolverine averaging a double-double in 2024-25. He is second on the team with 13 points per game and is also averaging a team-high 10.1 rebounds. Wolf is second behind point guard Tre Donaldson dishing out 4.1 assists per game. The only knock on Wolf's game is his high turnover rate. The first-year Wolverine is averaging a team-high 3.9 turnovers per game. He just turned the ball over six times against Minnesota on Thursday.

This year's Michigan team is fun to watch and if the Wolverines can reel in the turnover issues, Michigan could go far in the NCAA Tournament come March. The Wolverines will go as far as Wolf and Vlad Goldin take them.

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Trent began writing and covering Michigan athletics back in 2020. He became a credentialed member of the media in 2021. Trent began writing with Sports Illustrated in 2023 and became the Managing Editor for Michigan Wolverines On SI during the 2025 football season. Trent also serves as the Publisher of Baylor Bears on SI. His other bylines have appeared on Maryland on SI, Wisconsin on SI, and across the USA TODAY Sports network. Trent’s love of sports and being able to tell stories to fans is what made him get into writing.

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