Michigan Wolverines basketball freshman guard Brandon McCoy Jr. will miss the 2026-27 season with an ACL injury on his proper knee, this system introduced Tuesday.
Twenty seconds into an exhibition recreation in opposition to Serbian skilled group Mega SUPERBET Aug. 27 in Croatia, McCoy fell awkwardly whereas trying to go up for a layup. He was carried off the ground by teammates and didn’t return to the bench space.
“Further updates on McCoy’s surgery and recovery status will be provided when available,” this system stated in a press launch.
McCoy averaged 14.5 factors, 5 rebounds and 4 steals per recreation in Michigan’s first two exhibition video games of its European tour in Lithuania. He recorded 15 factors and 5 rebounds in opposition to the Lithuania National B Team after totaling 14 factors, 5 rebounds and 4 steals in his Michigan debut in opposition to the Lithuania National Team.
Michigan was shorthanded throughout its journey abroad, with out redshirt freshman guard/ahead Ricky Liburd (undisclosed). Junior heart Moustapha Thiam, in the meantime, went down with an injury six minutes into the primary exhibition recreation and didn’t seem within the subsequent two. The following morning, a U-M spokesman told The Wolverine that Thiam was “fine.”
The Wolverines are awaiting selections from the courts and NCAA on the eligibility of two potential gamers for this season in Roddy Gayle Jr., who’s suing to develop into eligible instantly and return for his fifth season of faculty basketball, and Columbia switch Kenny Noland. The depth within the backcourt will likely be boosted by these gamers if they will go well with up for Michigan this coming season, and that may be particularly vital now that the Wolverines will likely be with out McCoy.
Prior to Michigan’s overseas tour, head coach Mike Boynton Jr. mentioned what he had seen from McCoy throughout summer season exercises.
“He’s a heck of a playmaker — a really good passer,” Boynton stated. “Quick, explosive — if he will get some runway, I’d be shocked if he doesn’t have at the least a dunk in each recreation. Most video games he’ll have a number of dunks simply because he can. When I used to be evaluating him, I watched him for 4 video games in Switzerland final summer season with the U19s. Morez [Johnson Jr.] was on that group with him, and in 4 video games, each shot he tried was a dunk. I used to be nervous — what is that this, how does this work in school?
“The fact of the matter is, it does work. Sometimes guys are just good at something. You maybe try to talk about not letting a guy go left all the time, and he’s just good enough to go left when he wants. Brandon McCoy’s good enough that if he gets some space to jump, he’s going to dunk on you. The jump shot’s coming along too — I know that’s one of the things that’s been questioned. He works his butt off. He’s probably shot more basketballs this summer than anybody on our team. He’s been very intentional about working on that, and the numbers and the data we get back show he’s certainly improving in that area.”