Chaundee Brown was a good player on a bad team for a long time. His three years at Wake Forest produced 11.7 wins per season and a 14-42 record in the ACC. The program won back-to-back league games only once in those three years and each season ended with a first-round loss in the conference tournament. Brown, a sturdy 6-foot-5 wing, was a solid and productive player, but didn’t have enough around him — both on the court and on the sideline — to compete. During a Zoom call with reporters on Monday, he stated the simple reality that to win in college basketball a real team “needs a lot pieces.”
There’s hope at Michigan heading into the 2020-21 season for that exact reason. Brown is yet another piece for a roster with lots of options and lots of upside. Last Friday, the program learned Brown was granted a waiver from the NCAA making him immediately eligible to play following his transfer from Wake Forest to Michigan. Instead of redshirting…