The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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PHOTO COURTESY MICHIGAN ATHLETICS PHOTO COURTESY MICHIGAN ATHLETICS PHOTO COURTESY MICHIGAN ATHLETICS ❱ INSIDE MICHIGAN ATHLETICS MAY 2024 ❱ THE WOLVERINE 17 0 Is the number senior edge JOSAIAH STEWART will sport in 2024, after wearing No. 5 last season. Nickel back Mike Sainristil played in No. 0 the last two seasons. Stewart wore it at Coastal Carolina f r o m 2 0 2 1 - 2 2 b e f o r e transferring to Michigan. Interestingly, Stewart and Sainristil were teammates at Everett (Mass.) High. 1 Is what junior linebacker Jaishawn Barham, a Maryland transfer, has picked for his jersey this coming season. He donned the digit with the Ter- rapins the last two seasons. Michigan's other transfer that joined the team in January, graduate offensive lineman Josh Priebe, has stuck with No. 68, which he wore with the Wildcats. 7th In the country is where Michigan women's basketball's 2024 class slots in ESPN.com's recruiting rankings, with five members that are headlined by two top- 15 prospects in guards Syla Swords (No. 11) and Olivia Olson (No. 15) — the two highest- ranked recruits in program history. Both Swords and Olson played in the Mc- Donald's All-American Game April 2 in Hous- ton. Swords finished with 12 points, 4 re- bounds, 3 assists and 2 steals in the game and was the runner-up in the three-point shooting contest the night before. Olson had 6 points, 2 rebounds, 3 assists, a steal and a blocked shot. 15 20-win seasons for Michigan women's bas- ketball, with the Wolverines concluding 20-14 with a sixth consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance. Kim Barnes Arico's U-M program won 20 games for a third straight season and has hit the milestone in 12 of the last 13 years. Coming into this year, we didn't know what this season was going to hold because we did have a lot of gradu- ation and a lot of inexperience. So, for us to be in the positions we were so many times, I'm really proud of our group and proud of our program." — Women's basketball head coach KIM BARNES ARICO after an 81-72 overtime loss to Kansas in the first round of the NCAA Tournament We ' v e s i g n e d p r o b a b l y o u r best recruiting class ever. We have two All- Americans in a class of five that's phenomenal. We have a great core group returning, and I'm just really excited about the future of our pro - gram and trying to take those next steps, for sure." — Kim Barnes Arico As a room as a whole, we're ex- pecting everybody to step up, everybody to step into their new roles and be their best selves. I've been tell- ing the guys, 'We don't have Rome [Roman Wilson], we don't have CJ [Cornelius Johnson], but that doesn't have to be a bad thing. It's our chance to go do something.' We understand that we, as a group and individually, we haven't done a whole lot yet — and this is a year that we can show what we can do." — Junior wide receiver TYLER MORRIS I want to be here and everybody wants to be here and everybody wants to be with each other. That outweighs everything else. The type of brotherhood that we have with each other is bigger than any of that. We just try to stick together as best as we can. Sometimes, you have to be a man — business is business — but we all want to stay together, definitely." — Junior defensive tackle Kenneth Grant on keeping U-M's roster intact