John Beilein dealt a deathly blow to Michigan basketball by taking the Cleveland Cavilers job and now the team is dealing with the aftermath. Immediately following his departure, Jalen Wilson, a top 100 recruit, asked to be let out of his scholarship and has since committed to play at Kansas.
The coaching search landed on a home-run candidate in Juwan Howard who turned around and made his greatest weakness his greatest strength with the hiring of long-time head coach Phil Martelli.
Martelli began his head coaching experience in 1995 at St.