Reports: Albrecht to transfer from UM for 5th year

(Photo: Robin Buckson, Detroit News)Spike Albrecht will continue his basketball career, but it won’t be at Michigan, according to multiple reports late Monday night.

ESPN first reported Albrecht will play elsewhere next season as a graduate transfer. He will graduate from Michigan in May.

Albrecht, 21, played just eight games this season, as the pain from a pair of offseason hip surgeries proved too much to overcome.

In December, after shutting it down in time to preserve a redshirt season if he wanted, his emotional news conference was labeled a “retirement.” As he started feeling better through all the rehab, though, Albrecht started to contemplate continuing his career, as he first told The…