{"id":52412,"date":"2024-05-19T17:03:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T22:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/?p=52412"},"modified":"2024-05-19T17:03:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T22:03:01","slug":"dusty-may-talks-history-with-michigan-wearing-the-block-m-its-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/dusty-may-talks-history-with-michigan-wearing-the-block-m-its-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"Dusty May talks history with Michigan, wearing the block \u2018M\u2019 \u2014 \u2018it\u2019s awesome\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michigan head basketball coach Dusty May<\/a><\/strong> couldn\u2019t help but grin when asked during a recent interview what it felt like to wear his team-issued Jordan shirt while visiting Florida. He was back in Boca Raton to support his graduating Florida Atlantic players, but wherever he goes now, he\u2019s representing Michigan.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s awesome,\u201d May said, acknowledging again he felt the program simply fit him better than others that were pursuing him.\u00a0He\u2019s a Big Ten guy, after all \u2014 a former Indiana manager from 1996-2000 who also coached at Eastern Michigan in the early 2000s, just down the road from Ann Arbor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But even growing up in Hoosier country, he had his eye on the other Big Ten schools. Like many, he was enamored by what happened in Ann Arbor during the Fab Five years.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople don\u2019t know this \u2026\u00a0I grew up just outside of Bloomington, Ind., and our AAU team one year was Bloomington Blue,\u201d May shared. \u201cWe modeled our uniforms after Michigan. It was Bloomington Red program, and we changed that age group to Bloomington Blue and changed it to the block \u2018B\u2019 instead of the block \u2018M.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018We had the long shorts and whatnot \u2026 so, yeah.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yeah, as in, \u201cyes, I\u2019m familiar with the Michigan basketball tradition.\u201d <\/p>\n

So far, he\u2019s fit in perfectly, an outstanding representative of the university and an absolute workhorse while putting his roster together.\u00a0May said even before he landed 8 new additions that he expected to be competitive in year one. He doubled down after filling the roster \u2026 and then some.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout a doubt (we expect to win),\u201d he said. \u201cIf we stay healthy and get all these guys to the court in November and December, then we have a very competitive roster.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not going to hide and downplay expectations, because I think this team really, really has a high, high ceiling, and a pretty high floor, as well. I think we have a lot of pieces, a lot of interchangeable parts that have won at a high level. They care about winning.\u201d<\/p>\n

They landed most of their first choices from the portal, he noted, including former Auburn point guard Tre Donaldson<\/a><\/strong>, FAU big man Vlad Goldin, Ohio State wing Roddy Gayle<\/a><\/strong>, and many others. All will have an opportunity to play and\u00a0can<\/em>\u00a0play, but May was more impressed with them as people.\u00a0<\/p>\n

All of them fit the image he has for his program.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think up to this point It could have gone much better, to be honest,\u201d he said. \u201cI think we\u2019ve had 8 official visits, and we have 8 commitments. We\u2019ve done a nice job as a staff at identifying guys that fit us, that were looking for the same things we were.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe use the word \u2018fit\u2019 probably too much, but we found guys that fit us, and hopefully we fit them the same way. But we love the group that is coming into form.\u201d<\/p>\n

And can\u2019t wait to see them together for the first time this summer, and then beyond.<\/p>\n

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