Jace Howard placed back on scholarship

From a scholarship player to a walk-on and back to a scholarship player.

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After the gambit pursuits of former Michigan five-star commit Isaiah Todd and five-star target Joshua Christopher both ended up being for naught, that meant the reversal of one move made earlier in the month to free up scholarships.

Before both David DeJulius and Colin Castleton opted to enter the NCAA transfer portal, with five committed players, a strong likelihood that both Isaiah Livers and Franz Wagner could return, the Wolverines scholarship situation looked rather dicey, at best. Thus, three-star forward Jace Howard, son of head coach Juwan Howard, opted to move from being a scholarship player to a walk-on, according to a Michigan basketball spokesperson.

However, with one commit leaving and another decommitting, the maize and blue had two scholarships available following Todd’s Tuesday renege. Therefore, as first reported by The Wolverine’s Clayton Sayfie, Howard is being put back on scholarship and signed his national letter of intent on Wednesday.

Michigan Wolverines basketball three-star small forward pledge Jace Howard, son of head coach Juwan Howard, signed his national letter of intent with U-M on Wednesday, he said on Instagram live.

Howard committed to U-M on Jan. 20, and intended to sign as a scholarship player at the time. Last week however, Howard told The Wolverine that he intended on walking on for his first season in Ann Arbor.

Now the Wolverines have one open scholarship available. They could either hit up the transfer market, or, as former Michigan forward Anthony Wright surmised, per his source, the maize and blue still could be in the market for a high-level recruit.

For now, we’ll just have to wait and see what happens.