Although Tre Donaldson helped lead Michigan basketball to a Sweet 16 appearance as the Wolverines’ starting PG, head coach Dusty May had a meeting with North Carolina transfer Elliott Cadeau the morning after Michigan was eliminated from the NCAA Tournament.
Speaking with Brian Boesch on Defend the Block, May described his connection to the former five-star recruit, and how he believes the Wolverines can play with even more tempo than they played with last season. Cadeau, being a pass-first PG, will help open things up for Michigan in 2025-26.
“Well, much like everyone that we’ve signed out of the portal, I think 100% of the guys we’ve brought in out of the portal, we had some type of personal relationship with them or some personal connection,” May said of recruiting Elliott Cadeau. “And we had seen them play. We had seen them grow up, whatever the case.
“So with Elliott, we’d actually scrimmaged them the year before last when we were at FAU, North Carolina came down and scrimmaged at our place. And coincidentally, I coached Sean May, one of North Carolina’s legend as a player and a very, very good basketball coach who’s on their staff now. And so we had a lot of, I guess, back channeled information.
“And so we just felt like he fit because we still didn’t play at the tempo that we wanted to last year. And we just thought a pass for the more talented we get, the more weapons we have on our roster, it makes it even more integral to have a point guard who’s just, who’s trying to set those guys up. And so we felt like from a chemistry perspective, having a true pass first point guard would allow us to keep everyone happy. And that’s what Elliott does. He loves passing the ball. He loves creating offense.
“And we think he’ll be able to generate a lot of good offense early in the clock because of his speed. And we got to get him rebound in the ball even better. But he just gives us another dimension.”
