Well, I was holding off on this post because I wanted something to happen; nothing has yet. Instead I will post this, and thus cause something to happen.

[UPDATE: minutes after this post went up On3's Jamie Shaw predicted 2024 CG Justin Pippen to Michigan.]

VISIT WEEKEND

Michigan had three expected visitors as of a few days ago. Vlad Goldin came in; there has been complete radio silence about his visit.

Yale C Danny Wolf visited this weekend and there is also zero out there. He did not pull the trigger, then. The other team mentioned prominently for him was UNC, and it looks like UNC is pounding the pavement for a starting five. They've been linked to Tennessee's Jonas Aidoo, Kentucky's Aaron Bradshaw (who just committed to OSU), Arizona's Oumar Ballo, and Rutgers's Cliff Omoruyi. Wolf may be further down their board since the rest of those guys are close analogues to Armando Bacot, a defense-and-rebounding kind of C, than the skilled Wolf.

One of their 247 staffers said that they'd "heard no further developments" after Wolf's initial conversations with UNC were reported last week, but there are Trilly Donovan-induced rumors he is going to take a visit to Chapel Hill early this week.

Wisconsin SG Connor Essegian did not come in; he took a visit to Maryland this weekend and is apparently going to take one to South Carolina. He is scheduled to be on campus for the spring game. If that gets pushed further off I'd take that as a signal this isn't happening.

They also had two late breaking/surprise visits. One was Oakland F Trey Townsend coming in on Sunday. Townsend is in that class of grad transfers that is not headed for the NBA and would like to make a hefty chunk of change in his last year in college, understandably. I'm not sure where that leaves Michigan, which is likely going to have to set aside large chunks of their NIL budget for two other one-and-done fifth years in Goldin and Davis.

The other: FAU decommit Lorenzo Cason. Cason was also at Florida this weekend. On3 reports that he wants to have a decision "as soon as possible," so it's probably between the two. Nothing as yet about the other two FAU decommits, Elijah Elliott and Ty Robinson.

[After THE JUMP: positive development with Johnell Davis.]

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ALL RIGHT FINE JUST HIRE A GUY OUT OF LEFT FIELD

Michigan's third assistant:

NEWS: Michigan’s Dusty May is hiring Saint Mary’s Associate HC Justin Joyner as an assistant coach, sources tell @247Sports. 

Joyner has helped Saint Mary’s to two conference tournament titles and two regular season championships. 

Reeled in Gaels’ star Aidan Mahaney and other…

— Travis Branham (@TravisBranham_) April 10, 2024

That tweet finishes with "…other Top150 recruits in Jordan Ross, Mikey Lewis and Zion Sensley." Also:

This is a massive move. Justin has been a huge part of Saint Mary’s success, especially on the recruiting trail.

He’ll be a head coach somewhere soon.

Congrats to @JoynerJustin! Well deserved and you will be missed. https://t.co/pBblslv1VE

— Zack Farmer (@postsbyzack) April 10, 2024

Josh Henschke reports that Joyner is indeed taking one of the three off-campus recruiting slots. That's not quite picking off the top assistant at Tennessee but it's not far off. Congrats to Rod Clark on his raise.

Henschke also reports that the two non-recruiting assistant slots are going to go to a couple of his FAU guys, so this seems like the best of both worlds. You have two guys who are well regarded as P5 recruiters, another guy who's from St Mary's and therefore speaks Australian, and two guys who helped build FAU into a top 50 program.

[After THE JUMP: chair filled, more on the way]