Michigan Basketball: Nunez, Brazdeikis Sign Letters Of Intent
Michigan coaches have now received four letters of intent after shooting guard Adrien Nunez and forward Ignas Brazdeikis signed theirs at their schools. They're waiting only on East Lansing forward Brandon Johns, who will sign today or tomorrow.
Brazdeikis was initially slated to sign today at noon, but instead signed last night between games at his school.
He told TheWolverine.com Michigan was his "perfect fit," and said in his recruiting video below that it felt great to get his recruitment over with, a "load off my shoulders."
"For a lot of people I feel like the decision for what college they go to is difficult, but for me it was kind of a clear choice," he said. "With Michigan, it has everything for me. Every box I had to check with colleges, it checked right away. I really knew after the official visit that that's where I wanted to go. The connection we built, my family with coach Beilein, and the rest of the coaching staff, that really made it easy.
"The academic portion of it is amazing, and the basketball itself, Big Ten Conference, is incredible. It just had everything for me."
Of those boxes, one big one stood out.
"It's probably the biggest decision of my life so far, and it's not an easy decision. Building a good relationship with the coaching staff, because these are going to be people you're going to be with for a long time, and for the rest of you life you're going to know them and they're going to be family," he said. "People you want to spend a lot of time with and be around.
"How am I going to succeed and get to may goal? Is this school going to help me get to my goal, to play in the NBA? Michigan was definitely a spot that could get me there with coach Beilein and the other coaches helping."
Nunez, a late bloomer, didn't hesitate once he got his Michigan offer. He said in this October article in The New York Post that he had no hard feelings about how he was used last year at Bishop Loughlin in Brooklyn, where he averaged just 4.8 points per game, overshadowed by top recruits Keith Williams, a freshman at Cincinnati, and Markquis Nowell.
He's now spending a fifth year at St. Thomas More.
"It feels great to be a Wolverine," he told TheWolverine.com after signing. "I've been dreaming about this day for a long time. I'm grateful and honored to finally be a part of the Michigan basketball family."
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