Dusty May was hired last season to be Michigan -men’s basketball trainer after spending six seasons with Florida Atlantic.
May 48 was asked what he learned in his first season in the Big Ten during a recent performance on Outkicks “Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich.”
“It was even more physically and physically demanding than we expected. All summer, every time one of our players would complain about a mistake, our answer would be, ‘We play in the Big Ten, you have to play through it,'” May said.
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Michigan head coach Dusty May looks at during the first half against Michigan State on March 9, 2025. (IMagn)
The Michigan coach said the coaching staff did not prepare the players well enough for the physical game.
“I don’t think we were just as intentional enough to create an environment with physicality every day. Whether it was pillows everything we did should have – there is no freedom of freedom. Just giving bodies of bodies at all times, we didn’t prepare our guys well enough,” May said.
While May May complain about the team’s preparation, he noticed that they were not built to play a physical game.
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Michigan head coach Dusty may be talking to a judge about a call in the second half against Michigan State on March 9, 2025. (IMagn)
“But we are also not built that way. We have a lot of guys who are very skilled and they are finesse by nature. It’s not like we were recruiting it, either we just tried to get the best players we could in a small window,” he explained.
Michigan Wolverines is 22-9 this season entering the Big Ten tournament and May seemed happy with the team’s foundation in his first year.
“We laid a really strong foundation, we learned a lot, I learned an incredible amount, but these are the things that really pop out.”
Michigan head coach Dusty May sees a game against Maryland during the first half at the Crisler Center in Ann Arbor on March 5, 2025. (IMagn)
May will look at further building on this foundation in the Big Ten Tournament.
Wolverines are No. 3 Seeds in the Big Ten tournament and play their first match on Friday at. 21 et. They play the winner of the USC and Purdue.
