UNC Transfer PG Elliot Gift begins in Michigan

Elliot GiftAn old five -star recruit and North Carolina Transfer, has found his next house. The 6 -foot 1 of West Orange, in New Jersey, will be transferred to Michigan.

In the second year at UNC in 2024-25, a gift collected on average 9.4 points and 6.2 assists per game, good for second row in ACC. It pulled 44.5% in the field and 33.7% out of three. Gift also finished second in ACC in turnover, with 3.1 per game.

“The coaches staff (from Michigan) really believe in me and I know what I can do,” a gift told 247sports. “I want to play in an offense that best suits me and my abilities, with the right players around me so that we can all win.”

A 247Sport five-star perspective, a gift reclassified in the 2023 class to register in North Carolina before the 2023-24 season. It was classified in general classification n ° 11 and from point of view n ° 2 in class 2023.

Gift played 37 first -year games in North Carolina and made 21 departures. It collected an average of 7.3 points, 4.1 assists and 2.2 rebounds as a recruit while pulling 41.7% in the field and 18.9% of three.

Related: 2025 University basketball transfer portal

Gift has made 68 starting assignments in 74 games in the past two seasons.

The total of 231 gift assists in the 2024-25 season marked the best outing by a player from the UNC in 13 years, an amount not seen since the Grilation Distribution days of Kendall Marshall in Chapel Hill.

“Gift proved to be subject to reversals in rashes, a recurring question of needle thread attempts that threw it as a polarizing figure among the Tar Heels,” wrote Adam Smith de Carolina when a gift entered the transfer portal. “Its total of 113 reversals registered as the worst number of ACC this season. And at the national level in university basketball, only eight players from the major conference teams have coughed more reversals than gift.”

Michigan wins its leader for the future for gift. Wolverines enter the second year under the head coach Dusty can After a very successful first season to Ann Arbor. The Wolverines finished with a file of 27-10 and made a race at Sweet 16 Run in the NCAA tournament before losing against 78-65 against the seeded n ° 1 Auburn.

Gift will arrive in Michigan with a recruitment course of 35 best high school students who include Trey McKenney And Winters Grady.

247Sports Transfer Scouting Report via scouting director Adam Finkelstein:

Gift was once the best playmaker in high school basketball and reclassified to join the North Carolina after an absolutely dominant Nike Eybl campaign. Although he had ups and downs during his first two seasons in the ranks of the college, which was the most unexpected was some of the inconsistencies of his decision-making. Gift rendered more than 9 assists per game against only 2.3 reversals in this Eybl season. This year in North Carolina, he still had a 2: 1 ratio, but his 113 reversals were most committed by anyone in ACC. This variance was at the origin of him losing a few minutes and responsibilities for manipulating the ball at the end of the season. He can always be a brilliant passer -by, and put on the needle on certain high -level discoveries, but choosing your stains and being reliable above all is at the heart of bringing your game to new levels to its next school.

The other key variable is his shooting. He only made 19% of his attempts behind the arc of his first year, with visible problems in his increasingly pronounced mechanics throughout the season. This year, this number has climbed almost 34%, including 43% on the three open cords, but it still does not pull the ball with the same confidence or the same pace that we expected to get out of the school.

Also defensively, we have seen fairly extreme variances in its productivity. He would have burst into energy when he could obtain interceptions and deviations, but also committed unnecessary mistakes sometimes.

Overall, this is gift consistency, and a large part comes down to confidence. We have seen what he is capable of when he is at his best, and there is no reason why he cannot come back if he can find the same mentality he had less than two years ago.

(Inside Adam Smith by Caroline contributed to this report)