{"id":707196,"date":"2026-04-10T06:27:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/707196\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:27:19","slug":"final-four-most-outstanding-player-elliot-cadeau-announces-he-is-returning-to-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/707196\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Four most outstanding player Elliot Cadeau announces he is returning to Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANN ARBOR, Mich. \u2014 Elliot Cadeau, who was named the Final Four&#8217;s most outstanding player after helping Michigan to its first national title since 1989, announced on social media Thursday night that he will be back with the Wolverines next season.<\/p>\n<p>The point guard said in an Instagram reel \u201clet&#8217;s do it again\u201d after his return was first reported by ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Cadeau tied a season high with 19 points in Michigan&#8217;s 69-63 victory over UConn in the national championship game. He averaged 10.5 points and 5.9 assists in his first season with the program after two years at North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Cadeau&#8217;s announcement came shortly after J.P. Estrella confirmed on Instagram that he is transferring from Tennessee and joining the Wolverines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANN ARBOR, Mich. \u2014 Elliot Cadeau, who was named the Final Four&#8217;s most outstanding player after helping Michigan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,319,217,231,772,1544,2148],"class_list":{"0":"post-707196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaab","14":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116378995519848229","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}