Caleb Love Announces Transfer to Michigan After 3 Seasons at UNC

Caleb Love is headed to Ann Arbor.

The former McDonald's All-American announced his intention to transfer to Michigan on Friday after spending the last three seasons at North Carolina.

Love announced his intention to transfer after the Tar Heels' 2022-23 season ended in the ACC tournament. The team chose not to pursue an NIT berth after not being selected for the NCAA tournament.

A national runner-up in 2022 and hyped as a championship contender for this season, North Carolina instead faltered—in no small part thanks to some disappointing play from Love. The shoot-happy guard showed no improvement in his game and shot just 37.8 percent from the floor, including a dreadful 29.9 percent rate from beyond the arc.

Love's poor performance all but ruined any chance he had of reaching the NBA this season, so he chose to instead leave North Carolina and hope to improve under Juwan Howard at Michigan.

"One of his talents is his ability to get hot, and his ability to make the contested shot," Hubert Davis told reporters in March. "We don't go to the (NCAA) championship game last year without him making shots against UCLA or without him making big shots against Duke in the Final Four. Out of all of our players, especially in late-game pressure situations, he's the one guy that not only has the confidence to make it, but has the confidence and wants to shoot it. Sometimes he toes the line with trying to help the team out so much from a standpoint of trying to shoot us back in."

Michigan is coming off a disappointing season of its own, going 18-16 and losing in the second round of the NIT. Howard will go into the 2023-24 season on increasingly shaky ground and may need to rely on Love to help keep him in good standing with the Wolverines fanbase.