{"id":833493,"date":"2026-09-01T22:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T22:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/833493\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T22:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T22:48:09","slug":"michigans-brandon-mccoy-jr-acl-out-for-2026-27-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/833493\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan&#8217;s Brandon McCoy Jr. (ACL) Out For 2026\/27 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan freshman guard Brandon McCoy Jr. will miss the entire 2026\/27 season after suffering an ACL injury in his right knee, the school <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mgoblue.com\/news\/2026\/9\/1\/mens-basketball-mccoy-jr-out-for-2026-27-season-with-acl-injury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced on Tuesday in a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While the Wolverines don\u2019t provide specifics on the diagnosis, they referenced a surgical procedure within their announcement, so it sounds as if McCoy tore his ACL, which often requires a recovery period upwards of one calendar year. The injury occurred during the last game of Michigan\u2019s preseason European tour against KK Mega Basket in Montenegro.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an unfortunate turn of events for both the Wolverines and McCoy, who had widely been viewed as a probable first-round pick in the 2027 NBA draft.<\/p>\n<p>While draft-related projections change significantly over the course of the college season, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25230578-2027-nba-mock-draft-includes-new-york-knicks-legends-son\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jonathan Wasserman of Bleacher Report<\/a> had McCoy as the ninth player off the board in his early 2027 mock draft. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7368866\/2026\/06\/25\/nba-draft-2027-prospects-tyran-stokes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sam Vecenie of The Athletic<\/a> had the 6\u20194\u2033 guard at No. 15 in his initial 2027 mock draft, and he was listed 23rd overall in the first mock published by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/49101766\/2027-nba-mock-draft-no-1-pick-options-top-players-race-picks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ESPN\u2019s Jeremy Woo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A five-star recruit out of high school, McCoy averaged 14.5 points, 5.0 rebounds, and 4.0 steals per contest during the first two games of Michigan\u2019s European tour against Lithuania\u2019s national team and the Lithuanian B team.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear at this point how the injury might alter McCoy\u2019s plans for 2027\/28 and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michigan freshman guard Brandon McCoy Jr. will miss the entire 2026\/27 season after suffering an ACL injury in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[312747,355,99],"class_list":["post-833493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-brandon-mccoy-jr","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}