As Michigan lines up to run sprints, junior guard Manny Harris heads off to the side.

Harris isn’t running gassers these days as he recovers from a pulled high hamstring. Instead, he’s on the side, doing work with his hands or with a basketball or riding a bike.

Then, after practice, he’s occasionally been in the pool.

Harris, though, might be the only college basketball player in the country to actually miss the running.

“I’d rather sprint,” Harris said. “It kind of affects me a little bit but I’d rather be doing sprints. I actually like it.

“I don’t have a problem with running at all. With sprints. The track’s a different thing but on the court, I’m all good.”

Harris said the bothersome hamstrings have affected him with some explosiveness or sprinting but said he’ll play through it.

Michigan coach John Beilein, though, has been cautious. Harris practiced fully Wednesday - the best he’s looked this year according to Beilein - and was scheduled to go full on Thursday.

But Beilein’s biggest concern is potentially reinjuring his best player.

“We pull him out of things and don’t encourage some things,” Beilein said. “But in a game, he’ll move around. But it’s a lot of therapy because it’s a high hamstring and the higher hamstring, they tell me, it takes a little bit more cause there is not as much blood in there, apparently.”

Morgan has a setback
Freshman forward Jordan Morgan suffered a setback as he returns from off-season knee surgery.

Beilein had hoped Morgan would be cleared to run full-court by now, but now said he thinks it might not be for another couple of weeks.

“He just moved back a little bit right now,” Beilein said.

No decisions yet on redshirts
Beilein said he still has yet to make up his mind on any potential redshirts for this year but Beilein’s philosophy isn’t to burn a player’s year of eligibility if his team doesn’t need them.

It doesn’t sound like any of the 10 men he pegged for Friday’s rotation ¬- Harris, DeShawn Sims, Laval Lucas-Perry, Anthony Wright, Ben Cronin, Zack Novak, Zack Gibson, Stu Douglass, Darius Morris and Matt Vogrich - would be among the candidates.

Eric Puls has already been redshirted, so he can’t be again.

That leaves Morgan, guards Josh Bartelstein and Eso Akunne and forward Blake McLimans as potential candidates.

“We have a window still. If there’s any question in our mind, we’ll redshirt until we burn it,” Beilein said. “You can’t go the other way. This exhibition game they can play and it doesn’t affect the redshirt. But our guys who we have any questions about, we’ll begin the redshirting thought and then if we feel they can help us, burn it.”

This and that
Sophomore guard Zack Novak sprained an ankle last week trying to intercept a pass, but said he’s fine. … Beilein said redshirt freshman center Ben Cronin is about 70 percent “of what we hope he’ll be at one point.” … Beilein again pointed to Morris and Vogrich as guys who have made significant progress as freshmen. … Sims and Wayne State guard Deon Dismuke both went to Pershing High School in Detroit and Sims said “I know him real well.”