josh noris

The things you see when you're a doctor in Burundi. There's an entire continent on which the recent history of Michigan basketball is downright spectacular:

A few weeks ago, we were out on the frisbee field playing on a Sunday afternoon.  The usual crowd was standing around watching.  While running by one side of the field, I noticed that a spectator had a UM shirt.  Nothing that special in that, but on my second pass, I noticed the words "National Champions."  I started to think of the last national championship that UM had won in a sport that would print t-shirts.  It seemed a while ago, which piqued my interest.  How old was this shirt?

I got close enough to see that it was, in fact, a 2018 NCAA Division 1 basketball championship shirt.

Naturally, a trade was made.

Bajema: in. Cole Bajema reaffirms his commitment. So does Zeb Jackson. The Daily got Bajema's father on the phone to talk about the decision:

“Juwan and (Cole) had a conversation and basically agreed that Cole’s his first real recruit in his college coaching career,” Shane said. “The baton, basically, handed from Beilein to Juwan in recruitment of Cole and that’s what really put Cole over the edge and reassured that he could become Juwan’s guy too.

“… It was genuine, it was real, it wasn’t this recruiting talk. (Howard) is genuinely ecstatic to be the coach. And he seemed genuinely pumped to have Cole.”

And when Beilein called, telling the Bajemas that “Juwan’s gonna be a great guy,” and calling it “a perfect fit,” the comfort level only grew.

Bajema's been doing his own version of Camp Sanderson before his arrival; his father says he's added 22 pounds. That might take him from a version of freshman Caris to a guy who can play significant minutes. It's looking like he might have to.

[After THE JUMP: RJ Hampton takes the flight of the conchords]