College basketball's coaching carousel is far from an exact science.

It was fair to expect that Michigan basketball would have an assistant coach shuffle

as that's pretty common when programs do well.

They want to tap into the success of other teams.

Sure enough, three Michigan basketball assistants left the program,

but they were all within the women's side of things.

Joanne Howard's staff of Phil Martelli, Sadi, Washington, and Howard Isley,

all still in Ann Arbor, despite all being really interesting candidates for some of the head

coaching opportunities that popped up in men's basketball after the Wolverines run to the elite eight.

Kim Barnes-Riko's program on the flip side will have an entirely new

assistant coaching group. But the carousel does work both ways, right? I mean, Michigan men's basketball

certainly benefits from the continuity of the top four staff members staying the same for a third

consecutive year. But on the women's side, yeah, a lot will change, but this is an

opportunity to snag some of the top available names within that carousel. You can lose good

assistance and still push forward, still take that next step as a program. We've seen that

with Kim Barnes-Riko in the past. Certainly that's the expectation again. Two assistants have been named.

They both possess really impressive resumes. Carrie Moore, a basketball star in this state.

At Detroit Country Day, then at Western Michigan, she did climb the coaching ranks shortly after

her career ended, most recently and notably, the last two seasons at North Carolina.

UNC was the first really big program to invest in more as a coach.

Michigan is that first one for Val Nyneema, an up-and-coming star, who spent her last seven

seasons at Fordham.

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