{"id":709502,"date":"2026-04-13T07:30:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/709502\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T07:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:30:30","slug":"michigans-cadeau-agrees-to-deal-to-return-for-senior-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/709502\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan&#8217;s Cadeau agrees to deal to return for senior year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guard Elliot Cadeau has agreed to a deal to return to Michigan for his senior year, he told <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PeteThamel\/status\/2042401643677798702?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN&#8217;s Pete Thamel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cadeau was named the Final Four&#8217;s Most Outstanding Player after helping lead the Wolverines to their first national title since 1989. <\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old scored a game-high 19 points while adding 3 rebounds and 2 assists to secure a 69-63 victory over UConn. He also dropped 13 points and 10 assists in a dominant win against Arizona in the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Cadeau started 40 games in his first season at Michigan after transferring from North Carolina. He averaged 10.5 points and 5.9 assists while shooting 41.1% from the field during the 2025-26 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The guard&#8217;s confirmed return to the Wolverines comes the same day they <a data-in-app-uri=\"thescore:\/\/\/news\/3518864\" href=\"https:\/\/thescore.com\/news\/3518864\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">secured<\/a> former Tennessee forward J.P. Estrella in the transfer portal. Michigan also received a commitment last week from five-star guard Brandon McCoy, a top 20 recruit in the 2026 class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guard Elliot Cadeau has agreed to a deal to return to Michigan for his senior year, he told&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,231,772,1544],"class_list":{"0":"post-709502","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-basketball","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-basketball","12":"tag-ncaab"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116396230208630464","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709502","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=709502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}