The Wolverines and coach Dusty May went the international route to add what’s likely the final piece of their 2025 recruiting class.

Malick Kordel, a 7-foot center from Germany, has signed with Michigan, the program announced in a social media post on Friday.

Kordel visited Ann Arbor during the 2024-25 season and attended Michigan’s rivalry game against Michigan State on Feb. 21 at Crisler Center. He reportedly visited Iowa and Xavier during the winter and also received interest from Butler and Villanova.

Kordel, 21, primarily played with the Frankfurt Skyliners’ junior squad that competes in the German ProB, a third-tier pro basketball league in Germany. At that level, he averaged 11.3 points, 7.9 rebounds and 1.8 blocked shots in 24.2 minutes per game. He went 71.7% from the field (104-for-145) across 22 games, but only made 51.3% of his free throws (41-for-80).

Kordel, who grew up playing handball and didn’t start playing basketball competitively until 2021, joins a group of incoming freshmen that includes McDonald’s All-American Trey McKenney, four-star recruits Winters Grady and Oscar Goodman (early enrollee), and three-star wing Patrick Liburd.

Coupled with Michigan’s four transfer additions — Elliot Cadeau (North Carolina), Morez Johnson Jr. (Illinois), Yaxel Lendeborg (UAB) and Aday Mara (UCLA) — Kordel will be the ninth new face on the roster for the 2025-26 season.

Given how deep Michigan already is in the frontcourt with 7-footer Mara, Johnson, Lendeborg and Will Tschetter, minutes might be hard to come by for Kordel, a raw prospect who has upside but will need time to develop and adjust to the college game.