The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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56 THE WOLVERINE ❱ AUGUST 2025 ❱ BASKETBALL RECRUITING "I need to know that I can trust them and that they can trust me," Foster said. "I need to know the development plan they have for me, coming into my fresh- man year and beyond that, and I need to know their play style, their plan. How they're looking to play me will be a big thing for me, as well." Quinn Costello 6-10 • 195 • PF Boston Newman School Rivals Industry Ranking: No. 11 PF, No. 81 overall Costello, a former 2025 recruit, took home MVP honors at the prestigious Pangos All-American Camp this sum- mer and earned an invite to the NBPA Top 100 Camp, where he also played well. He's since burst into the top 100 and earned offers from Michigan, Texas, Purdue, Providence, Michigan State and others to go along with offers from Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Stanford, Iowa, Illinois, and Minnesota he picked up earlier. "I'd say I'm a 6-10, long, versatile, wing forward," Costello said. "I play a lot of the floor. I guard more fours and fives than threes, but I'm pretty flex- ible. I can really shoot it. That's like my number one strength. I've been known as a knockdown shooter for most of my life, but I've started to do a lot more, like putting the ball on the floor, driving closeouts, offensive rebounding, run- ning the floor, all that stuff." Costello has taken unofficial visits to Michigan and Michigan State and has plans to see more schools. U-M seemed to set the bar. "That's a great coaching staff," he said. "I find myself to be most success- ful in systems where the player-coach relationship is more than just passing a player-coach, when you really get to know each other. I really value that and so do they. I really like that about them. "It's Michigan. The Big House. They took me everywhere, and all the facili- ties are amazing. The football field is ginormous. It's awesome." He plans on narrowing his list in early fall. Purdue, Minnesota, and North Car- olina are others high on his list. "The relationship piece is going to be big for me," he said. "I'm most success- ful when coaches really trust me, and I really trust coaches, and we have a su- per strong, unbreakable relationship," he said. "I say it a lot, and I hate to say it, but if basketball doesn't work out, I'm still at a school where I'm set up for success." Jaxon Richardson Las Vegas Columbus 6-6 • 200 • SF Rivals Industry Ranking: No. 6 SF, No. 18 overall Richardson, the younger brother of former Michigan State guard Jase Rich- ardson and son of former MSU great Jason Richardson, lists Michigan, Ala- bama, Louisville, USC, Miami, Ole Miss, Cincinnati, Villanova, Creighton and Se- ton Hall among his top 10 schools. Inter- estingly, the Spartans aren't on his list. May and staff have prioritized the athletic wing — a dunking machine in AAU ball, like his father — and he's visited unofficially. The Wolverines are currently working as hard as anyone to land him. "They reach out to me almost every day," Richardson told Adam Zagoria's ZagsBlog July 8. "That means really a lot to me. When I went up there, I got to see the style of play, and the ball movement they have there is ridiculous. That's defi- nitely something I took away from there" Richardson visited USC unofficially last year and will see Alabama on an official Sept. 13. Miami recently hired Columbus High coach Andrew Moran, making them one to watch in his re- cruitment, too. Carlos Medlock Jr. 6-1 • 175 • PG Branson (Mo.) Link Academy 247 Ranking: No. 12 PG, No. 103 overall Dusty May helped coach Medlock's father at Eastern Michigan on May's first stint as an assistant coach, so there are ties here. Though he's not big, Med- lock is extremely quick and outstanding with the ball, able to get to the rim and score, and has an improving jump shot. Though not currently rated by Rivals or ESPN, he'll likely crack the top 100 when the rankings are updated later this summer. Medlock will transfer to Link Academy from Wayne (Mich.) Memorial this year, and U-M and MSU seem to be at the top of his list. He picked up offers from both schools in June, when he put on a show at the Adidas 3SSB Palmetto Road Cham- pionships in Rock Hill, S.C. He scored 28 points in his opening game and was named MVP of the day by Tipton. "It was a quality show that CJ Med- lock put on," Tipton reported for Rivals. "He's not only playing with a lot of con- fidence, but consistently making plays, putting his team in an advantage off a live dribble. "But what stood out with Medlock was the shooting. He has a crafty handle with great pace. The range extended be- yond the three-point arc, but he was also a weapon in the mid-range. The majority of his scoring came away from the basket, but he showed an ability to be efficient and consistent." Michigan will look to get him back on campus this fall. Anthony Thompson 6-8 • 185 • SF Lebanon (Ohio) Western Reserve Rivals Industry Ranking: No. 3 SF, No. 8 overall The five-star wing has it all, includ- ing an outstanding jumper. He made 45 percent of his triples last year and scores well at the rim. He's visited Michigan unofficially and has BYU, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisville, Michigan State, Texas, Ohio State, and several others on his list. "Michigan is high on my list of schools, and I have continued to be in contact with the coaching staff," Thompson said July 3. "I think they are a very good program with a great coach- ing staff and players. I haven't sched- uled anything yet, but I am looking to within the next few weeks." Thompson shined at adidas July 13, Rivals' Jamie Shaw reported. "There is something about see- ing someone consistently put the ball through the net," he wrote. "Anthony Thompson finished with 35 points in Indiana Elite's semifinal game tonight. "Thompson, a noted shooter, was ag- gressive offensively, hunting his shots and attacking the rim. He got to the free throw line while creating offensive op- portunities. It was good to see the added aggression in his game … a valuable part of his growth curve." ❏