Dream Team spot for Carlton Brundidge continues list of honors for Michigan basketball recruits
Michigan basketball recruit Carlton Brundidge is part of the Detroit News 2011 Dream Team announced Thursday.
"A lot of people don't see his work ethic," Southfield High School coach Gary Teasley told the newspaper for the story. "After our game against Detroit Henry Ford (in the district semifinals) he put up another thousand shots in the gym. His work ethic is solid."
Ohio State-bound Amir Williams of Detroit Country Day is also part of the team, as is Michigan State's Class of 2012 recruit Matt Costello of Bay City Western. Two members of the team -- Percy Gibson of Detroit Southeastern and LaDontae Henton of Lansing Eastern -- will play at Dayton.
Earlier this month, Brundidge was named to the Associated Press first-team All-State team.
Fellow recruit Trey Burke from Columbus,Ohio, was named Mr. Basketball in Ohio and a second-team Parade All-American.
The third, and latest, member of the class, Max Biefeldt, was named the Peoria Journal-Star's Player of the Year on Thursday. He was previously named to the state of Illinois' Class 3A All-State team.
The addition of Brundidge, Burke and Biefeldt will give the Wolverines 13 scholarship players if point guard Darius Morris decides to return to Ann Arbor.
"The competition level is going to be very high because we’re going from 10 scholarship players to could be 13 scholarship players," coach John Beilein said during last week's end-of-season meeting with reporters (he couldn't comment on Biefeldt because he had not signed an official letter of intent).
"Believe it or not, I don’t think Zack Novak will mind playing 30 minutes a game as opposed to 35. Or Stu (Douglass). I think they can even be more productive. So who knows. Everybody is going to have to earn everything. I look forward to seeing how those guys face that competition level."