Austin Davis to return and other news
The Michigan Insider
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4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In a news-related episode, we spend the bulk of the episode discussing Wednesday's announcement confirming that redshirt junior center Austin Davis would return to Michigan for his fifth season — becoming the first Wolverine to do so since Jordan Morgan in 2013-14.
We break down the rationale behind the decision, how unlikely it seemed, how much Davis has improved, what he could bring in his fifth season and more. We also look at Michigan's scholarship situation, and how Davis' news might impact that.
Finally, we close with brief discussions on a few news items that came up this week, looking at Zavier Simpson and Jon Teske's senior night and their legacies and the recent staff changes involving Joe Bolden and Mike DeBord.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. |
| 0:07.1 | This episode, it'll mostly be basketball. We'll touch on a little bit of football news just because there's some discussions out there that I personally want to weigh in on regarding analyst hires. |
| 0:19.4 | But no, this is mostly going to be about basketball |
| 0:21.6 | and austin davis we'll do a little bit of uh zavier simpson and john teskey just because it is |
| 0:27.2 | their senior days as well but of course this is mainly derived because there was news |
| 0:31.9 | wednesday it was announced by joan howard that austin davis would be coming back for his fifth season, |
| 0:40.1 | becoming the first five-year Michigan player since Jordan Morgan in 2013, 2014, unless I'm mistaken. |
| 0:48.7 | I'm running through the list. Nobody stands out. Anyway, I'm Zach Shaw. I cover Michigan football and basketball. Usually |
| 0:55.8 | Steve Lorenz, who does recruiting, is able to join me. He's out of town this week. But you can read |
| 1:00.9 | all of our stories over at the Michiganinsider.com and Michigan.247 sports.com. So let's talk about |
| 1:06.9 | Davis. He's only averaging 4.2 points and like 2.6 rebounds per game. |
| 1:14.0 | Really phenomenal story this season just because it really did not look like he was going to |
| 1:20.6 | make much of an impact at all in his college career. You know, through his first three seasons, |
| 1:26.9 | I believe he had scored, what, |
| 1:29.0 | 46 points in 143 minutes, just not playing a lot, not scoring a lot, you know, basically a |
| 1:35.5 | foul per point kind of player, third string. I mean, he even started out third string this |
| 1:41.0 | season. He didn't play in seven of Michigan's first 11 games. |
| 1:45.0 | And now he's part of that top eight. I mean, he's the backup center. You obviously need a |
| 1:49.6 | backup center. They're always going to be highly involved. And he has scored around six-ish |
| 1:54.8 | points since February began. He has had six games in his career where he scored more than |
| 2:00.6 | eight points or eight or more points. Five of them have games in his career where he scored more than eight points, or |
| 2:01.7 | eight or more points. Five of them have occurred in Michigan's last nine games. So clearly, |
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