University of Michigan basketball player Elliot Cadeau was removed from the team’s bus on a stretcher — and covered by a white sheet — just days before the team’s scheduled Final Four appearance.
In a Wednesday, April 1, video captured by WWJ Newsradio 950’s Jon Hewett, Cadeau, 21, was seen being loaded into an ambulance outside the Player Development Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Shortly after the video was posted, the school revealed that Cadeau “alerted the medical staff that he may have had an allergic reaction to something that he ate.”
“The doctors evaluated Elliot and he is fine,” a University of Michigan spokesperson told TheWolverine.com in a statement. “Out of an abundance of caution, he is receiving medical supervision and will be traveling to Indianapolis later today.”
Michigan plays the University of Arizona in the Final Four at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Saturday, April 4. The winner advances to take on the winner of the UConn and Illinois matchup in the national championship game on Monday, April 6.
Cadeau, a junior guard from West Orange, New Jersey, has been a critical piece of Michigan’s run to the Final Four after transferring from the University of North Carolina. He is averaging 10.2 points and 5.8 assists while shooting more than 37 percent from three-point range in just 38 games. He was named to the third-team All-Big Ten in March.
Fans can get used to seeing more of Cadeau in the maize and blue, too.
After Michigan’s win against Alabama in last month’s Sweet 16, Cadeau said he “definitely” intends on returning to Ann Arbor for his senior year.
“I feel like I have different aspects to my game now, just being able to be a threat from the three-point line, being able to be more of a threat scoring just because I have freedom to do it,” he told TheWolverine.com.
Michigan head coach, Dusty May, was a big part of Cadeau’s decision to run it back.
“I like how he wants to develop his players and how he has so much confidence and trust in me,” the player said in a press conference on Saturday, March 28. “He believed I was capable in leading my team to the Final Four, and I really wanted to play for a coach like that.”
Cadeau added, “He’s a very generous person off the court. When I was moving in, he came to my apartment and helped, like moving furniture up [the stairs]. A lot of head coaches wouldn’t do that.”
