Ann Arbor — It can be hard to digest it all. Ask any freshman in major-college athletics and they’ll tell you that.
The transition isn’t easy, lifting weights and handling a course load, trying to stand out even as you’re trying to fit in. But for Moritz Wagner, the 18-year-old German basketball recruit who’s still finding his way — on and off the court in Ann Arbor — the internal struggle was even more basic.
“Yeah, I had some stomach trouble the first weeks,” the 6-foot-10 forward from Berlin said Thursday at Michigan’s media day, speaking with reporters for the first time since he arrived in late June.