Will Tschetter

Men's Basketball vs. Texas A&M - NCAA Tournament Second Round

Class:
Graduate Student
Position:
F
Height:
6-8
Weight:
230
Hometown:
Stewartville, Minn.
High School:
Stewartville HS

Pronunciation
• Last name pronounced: cheddar

Career: Michigan
• U-M’s Big Ten Sportsmanship honoree (2026)
• (4x) Academic All-Big Ten (2023, '24, '25, '26)
• (4x) U-M Athletic Academic Achievement (2022, '23, '24, '25)
• College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District (2023)
• Member of the 2026 National Championship Team
   • Defeated No. 2 seed UConn, 69-63, to claim U-M’s second national title
• Helped U-M to a program-record 37-3 record (2025-26)
   • Set records for most wins (37) and fewest losses (3)
• Helped U-M capture the 2026 Players Era Championship in Las Vegas
   • Rolled to three straight 30+ point wins over three days (+36.7 average margin)
   • San Diego State (94-54; +40), No. 21 Auburn (102-72; +30), No. 12 Gonzaga (101-61; +40)
• Helped U-M secure the 2026 Big Ten regular-season title
   • Posted a program- and Big Ten-record 19-1 conference mark
   • Won title by four games, earning No. 1 seed in Big Ten Tournament
   • Went 10-0 in Big Ten road games, first team to do so in 50 years (Indiana, 1976)
• 2026 NCAA Tournament (No. 3 overall seed; No. 1 Midwest seed)
   • First Round: Defeated No. 16 Howard, 101-80
   • Second Round: Defeated No. 9 Saint Louis, 95-72
   • Sweet 16: Defeated No. 4 Alabama, 90-77
       • Seventh straight Sweet 16 appearance
   • Elite Eight: Defeated No. 6 Tennessee, 95-62
       • Fifth Elite Eight appearance in the last 10 tournaments
   • Final Four: Defeated No. 1 Arizona, 91-73
       • Ninth Final Four appearance
   • National Championship: Defeated No. 2 UConn, 69-63
       • First national title in 37 years (since 1989); second in program history
• Helped U-M win the 2025 Big Ten Tournament title
   • Defeated No. 5 seed Wisconsin, 59-53, to claim U-M's fourth tournament title
   • Advanced with wins over No. 6 seed Purdue (86-68) and No. 2 seed Maryland (81-80)
• Helped Michigan to NIT (2023)
   • Awarded No. 3-seed in Clemson Bracket
   • Defeated Toledo (90-80) in first round, lost at No. 2-seed Vanderbilt (66-65) in second round

Season: 2025-26 (Michigan)
• Played in all 40 games, with one start
   • One of seven Wolverines to play in all 40 games
• Averaged 3.5 points, 1.9 rebounds in 13.7 minutes per game
   • Posted three double figure games
       • Season-high 16 points against Oakland (Nov. 3)
   • Posted 17 games of three-plus rebounds, with two of five-plus
       • Season-high five rebounds, twice: at Oregon (Jan. 17) and vs. Tennessee (March 29, NCAA)
   • Logged 16 games of 15-plus minutes, with six of 20-plus
       • Season-high 26 minutes against Penn State (Feb. 5)
• Made 29 three-pointers
   • Had eight games with multiple three-pointers
   • Career-high-tying four three pointers against Oakland
• Shot 30-for-33 from the free throw line (90.9 percent)
   • Career-high-tying four free throws, twice: Oakland and vs. Auburn (Nov. 25, NCAA)
• Added four blocks and four steals

Season: 2024-25 (Michigan)
• Played in all 37 games: all off the bench
   • One of five Wolverines to play every game
   • Considered U-M's "Sixth Man"
• Averaged 6.4 points, 2.4 rebounds in 16.0 minutes per game
   • Posted seven double figure games
       • Season-high 17 points against Oregon (Feb. 5)
   • Posted three games with five-plus rebounds
       • Season-high six rebounds, twice: vs. Xavier (Nov. 27; Fort Myers Tip-Off) and Wisconsin (March 16; BTT)
   • Posted 23 games of 15-plus minutes
       • Season-high 27 minutes vs. Wisconsin
• Made a career-high 34 three-pointers
   • Had seven games with multiple three-pointers
   • Season-high three three-pointers, twice: vs. Arkansas (Dec. 10, Jimmy V Classic), at Minnesota (Jan. 16)
• Added 20 assists, seven steals, and three blocks
   • Had a career-best-tying three assists vs. Xavier (Nov. 27)

Season: 2023-24 (Michigan)
• Played 31 games, with six starts
   • Started final five games following injury to Olivier Nkamhoua (wrist surgery)
   • Missed one game due to illness: at Northwestern (Feb. 22)
• Averaged 6.8 points, 2.4 rebounds in 17.8 minutes per game
   • Posted seven double figure games
       • Career-high 20 points against Youngstown State (Nov. 10): 8-for-8 FG (4-for-4 3FG)
   • Posted six games with five-plus rebounds
       • Career-high six rebounds, three times: Indiana (Dec. 5), at Iowa (Dec. 10), Eastern Michigan (Dec. 16)
   • Logged 12 games of 20-plus minutes
       • Career-high 28 minutes, twice: at Rutgers (Feb. 29), at Ohio State (March 3)
• Shot 58.2 percent from the field (78-for-134)
• Shot 51.9 percent from long range (28-for-54)
   • Had four games with multiple three-pointers
   • Career-high four three-pointers against Youngstown State
• Added 20 assists, three blocks and six steals
   • Career-high-tying three assists against Long Beach State (Nov. 17)
   • Career-high-tying two blocks against Ohio State (Jan. 15)
   • Career-high two steals against Purdue (Feb. 25)

Season: 2022-23 (Michigan)
• Played 27 games, with eight starts
   • Collegiate debut against Fort Wayne (Nov. 7): two points
   • First career start at Wisconsin (Feb. 14): four points, five rebounds & two assists
• Averaged 2.3 points, 1.4 rebounds in 10.7 minutes per game
   • Posted four games with five-plus points
       • Season-high seven points, twice: at Iowa (Jan. 12) and Michigan State (Feb. 18)
   • Posted six games of three-plus rebounds, with one of five-plus
       • Season-high five rebounds at Wisconsin
   • Logged 16 games of 10-plus minutes, with one of 20-plus
       • Season-high 26 minutes at Wisconsin; first career start
• Added 10 assists and four blocks
   • Career-high three assists, twice: at Rutgers (Feb. 23) and Toledo (March 14)
   • Career-high two blocks against Central Michigan (Dec. 29)

Season: 2021-22 (Michigan)
• Redshirted the season

Prep Career
• Associated Press All-State first team (2021), second team (2020)
• Post Bulletin Player of the Year (2021), All-Area (2020, '21)
• Hiawatha Valley League Player of the Year (2021); All-League (2019, '20, '21)
• Finalist & Runner-up for Minnesota's Mr. Basketball (2021)
• No. 2 rated player in the State of Minnesota, behind Class of 2021 No. 1 recruit Chet Holmgren
• Four-year varsity player at Stewartville, scoring 2,467 career points
• As a senior (2020-21), averaged 30.3 points (third best in State), 11.8 rebounds and 45 3-pointers (41 percent), while leading the Tigers to an 18-4 record and the title game of MSHSL 1AA Sectional (L, 78-61; Caledonia); closed with 643 points, scoring 20+ points in 18 games with 11 of 30+ and two of 40+ including a season-high 48 against Kasson-Mantorville (Feb. 9, 2021)
• As a junior (2019-20), averaged state-best 33.6 points (10th best in Minnesota history), 10.8 rebounds and 67 3-pointers (45 percent) while leading the Tigers to a 25-6 record and the title game of MSHSL 1AA Sectional (L, 71-53; Caledonia); closed with 1,043 points, scoring 20+ points in 30 games with 21 games of 30+, eight of 40+ and one 50+ -- a career-best 50 against Columbia Heights (Jan. 25, 2020)
• As a sophomore (2018-19), averaged 22.0 points and 7.5 rebounds, leading the Tigers to an 18-8 record and the second round of the MSHSL 1AA Sectional (L, 76-72; St. Charles); closed with 572 points, scoring 20+ points in 16 games with six of 30+ and one of 40+ -- a season-best 43 against Caledonia (Dec. 15, 2018)
• As a freshman (2017-18), averaged 11.0 points and 6.0 rebounds, leading the Tigers to an 18-9 record and the second round of MSHSL 1AA Sectional (L, 53-45; at Lake City)
• Played AAU with the Minnesota Heat

Notables
• Completed his Michigan undergraduate degree in three years
• First player from Stewartville to play basketball in Big Ten
• Mother, Kasey (Morlock), helped North Dakota State to three straight NCAA Division II national championships (1994, '95, '96), earning all-tournament team honors (1994, '95, '96) and was twice named the MVP (1995, '96).
• She is North Dakota State's all-time leading scorer (2,233), holds 13 school records and is a Hall of Fame member. She was named the 1997 Honda Award winner (Division II Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year) and was a three-time Kodak Division II All-District and All-American (1995, '96, '97)
• Father, Garth, played football at North Dakota State
• Lived in Beijing for two years (4th & 5th grade) while father worked at IBM
• Spent his most of his childhood on grandfather's farm, where he took a particular interest in freshwater ecosystems

Summer of 2023 (Internship)
• Tschetter served at an internship with the North Bridger Bison ranch near Bozeman, Mont., where he helped rebuild and maintain the wetlands. He created a beaver mimicry structure, which resembles a beaver dam and moderates the flow of streams to retain water on the ranch. He also led a stream bed restoration, focused on controlling erosion caused by grazing bison.