The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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BY CHRIS BALAS A s of Feb. 14, Michigan head coach John Beilein and his staff had only extended three offers in the class of 2015 — to Lincolnshire (Ill.) Stevenson High's Jalen Brunson (6-0, 175, Rivals.com's No. 28 player nationally in the 2015 class), La Porte (Ind.) La Lumiere High's Jalen Coleman (6-3, 180, the No. 34 player in the class) and Franklin (Ohio) High's Luke Kennard (6-5, 180, No. 16 junior nationally). Others have been on the target list for a while, and still more are emerging. The Wolverines have been drawing more and more in- terest from top-level recruits as a result of their winning ways and style of play. Rockwall (Texas) High shooting guard Austin Grandstaff (6-5, 180), one of the standouts for a loaded Team Texas AAU squad, is the lat- est to list U-M. Grandstaff, Rivals.com's No. 32 overall prospect nationally, com- mitted to Oklahoma State over the summer before opening his recruit- ment in early February. An out- standing shooter and passer with a high basketball IQ, he's averaging 26 points per game after putting up 36, 30 and 25 in his last three out- ings as of Feb. 10. " T h e l a s t t h re e g a m e s w e re against three of the tougher teams in our district. They were very athletic," said Team Texas direc- tor Wes Grandstaff, Austin's father. "Longview had a wide receiver headed to Texas guarding him, but he scored 30 on them with seven assists and eight rebounds against good competition." He's as much an attacker as a shooter, his father added. "He's really good with the ball and goes at people," the elder BASKETBALL RECRUITING New Targets Continue To Emerge From The 2015 Class Rockwall (Texas) High shooting guard Austin Grandstaff, a four-star recruit and the No. 32 junior prospect in the country according to Rivals.com, received inter- est from U-M after decommitting from Oklahoma State in early February. PHOTO COURTESY RIVALS.COM