International prospect Youssef Khayat commits to Michigan basketball

The Michigan males’s basketball program has gone the worldwide route to finish its roster for subsequent season.

Youssef Khayat, a Lebanon native who has performed the previous a number of years for an expert crew in France, dedicated to Michigan on Sunday afternoon (June 26).

Khayat is a 6-foot-8 ahead for the Limoges under-21 crew. As soon as the 19-year-old determined he needed to play school basketball, he narrowed his choices to 4 colleges, finally selecting Michigan over Xavier, Wake Forest, and DePaul.

He advised On3 of his determination. “I selected this system for his or her expertise of creating worldwide wings,” Khayat stated. “They’ve top-of-the-line coaches proper now in coach Juwan Howard who I grew up watching and admiring. The teaching workers made me instantly really feel at house. And Michigan has one of many largest Lebanese group within the U.S. in order that impacted for certain.”

After Michigan’s offseason of roster motion — NBA departures, transfers out and in — Khayat’s dedication might have stopped the carousel from spinning. Michigan is now utilizing its full allotment of 13 scholarships for the 2022-23 season.

Along with his professional basketball expertise, Khayat has performed for the Lebanon nationwide crew.