The transfer portal is chaos. This offseason, entire teams have decided to leave — looking at you, Tennessee* and Iowa State. Maintaining some continuity has become increasingly difficult for even the best programs.

Michigan, thankfully, has mostly been exempt from the chaos. If you follow the team’s Instagram page, you’ve seen a delightful series of player posts announcing their continued commitment to the program. Next year’s squad is going to look quite familiar.

The Wolverines bring back all but one player with eligibility remaining from their best team ever. They’ve added a really good replacement for the production they’ve lost, which is pretty much limited to the graduating Brooke Quarles Daniels.

There’s a decent amount of news to catch up on since the season ended but a whole lot less than there could’ve been. That’s a good thing. Let’s review.

*This should not come as a surprise.

Readers of this newsletter know I was a major advocate of giving guard McKenzie Mathurin more minutes when Michigan struggled to consistently hit three-pointers last season. Instead, she fell out of the rotation by the end of the season and remained on the bench even after fellow guard Macy Brown tore her ACL in the NCAA Tournament.

Given the above, it wasn’t a surprise when Mathurin put her name into the portal, and the rising sophomore has landed at Missouri. While she could’ve been a useful scoring threat off the bench for Michigan, especially with Brown out for 2026-27, she has a much clearer path to significant minutes at Mizzou.