This time last summer, we all knew, or at least felt pretty confident in one thing.

Once the summer of 2021 rolled around, a big storyline for Michigan men's basketball would most

likely be, how will the Wolverines replace Franz Wagner and Isaiah Livers?

At that point, we did not know just how much Michigan would miss having the likes of Mike Smith

or Sean D. Brown Jr., a couple of one-year transfers who were outstanding for the Mazin Blue.

And of course, Austin Davis, you think about CJ Baird, Luke Wilson.

There are plenty of guys that we knew Michigan would have some sort of loss in not having them around anymore.

But when it came to Isaiah and Franz, the writing was on the wall in terms of their timeline in Ann Arbor.

We all figured that 2020, 2021 would be the final season with those two in the maze and blue.

And we all knew definitively one summer ago that they were great,

great college basketball players vital to Michigan's success. On Thursday night, Franz Will

and Isaiah sure as heck should hear their names called in the NBA draft. So who's next?

That's the question almost every college basketball program has to ask this time of year.

And great programs tend to answer really well this time of year and beyond.

The prime candidate to make up for no Fronz and no Isaiah is our guest today, Caleb Houston.

He's a top 10 recruit nationally.

This program's highest ranked recruit in almost a decade.

And he just led Team Canada to its second World Cup medal ever in the under 19 tournament a few weeks back.

In other words, yeah, he's the real deal.

Now, of course, rankings mean nothing once the ball is tipped in November and as the season progresses.

But when we talk about things that we feel pretty confident in knowing a year down the road,

I've got one for you that we'll establish now that we'll look back on 365 days from now.

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