Add Michigan basketball's Yaxel Lendeborg to the list of subplots in Sweet 16
"I'm going to try my best to be the best player on the floor," Michigan star Yaxel Lendeborg said. "All it is is extra motivation."
CHICAGO − There are a plethora of narratives for Michigan basketball in its return to United Center. Nimari Burnett reuniting with his former team. Burnett and Morez Johnson Jr.
reuniting with their hometown. The entire team returning to the arena which hosted one of the few disappointments this season , when Purdue defeated the Wolverines in the Big Ten Tournament championship. But another that bubbled throughout media availabilities for both 1-seed Michigan and 4-seed Alabama ahead of their Sweet 16 meeting on Friday, March 27 (7:35 pm, TBS, truTV), was the Alabama ties of U-M star forward Yaxel Lendeborg.
A season ago, he starred for the Crimson Tide's fellow Alabama school, averaging 17. 7 points and 11. 4 rebounds per game en route to topping the transfer portal rankings.
This season, with the Wolverines, Lendeborg dominated the Big Ten in earning the conference's player of the year nod. SUBPLOTS: Chicago gave Michigan basketball 'bitter taste'; redemption on the line Still, Lendeborg wanted to know whether the top team in the Yellowhammer State coveted him as an option. "Once I entered the transfer portal out of UAB, I was hoping to get recruited by Alabama," he said.
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