WATCH: Dusty May previews Michigan basketball in the Big Ten Tournament
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan Wolverines basketball head coach Dusty May met with the media Monday morning to preview the Big Ten Tournament in Indianapolis. Watch video of the press conference below.
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Head coach Dusty May
Michigan basketball is headed into the postseason after overachieving in the regular season, going 22-9 overall and 14-6 in Big Ten play, finishing tied second in the league and earning the No. 3 seed in the conference tournament in Indianapolis.
“Well, it looks like the clouds have parted and the sun is out,” May said. “And we’re ready for a postseason run, and to play our best basketball when it means the most here in March.”
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This is the time of the year for short preps. Michigan doesn’t know its opponent for its first Big Ten Tournament game Friday. It could be Rutgers, USC or Purdue. The Wolverines won’t know until Thursday evening. In the NCAA Tournament, there will be 48-hour preps if Michigan makes the second game of a weekend.
“I do think the way our roster is constructed that we’re a challenge to match up with on a short turn,” May said. “But, Purdue and Rutgers, you gotta figure Vegas would say you’ve got at least an 80-percent chance of facing one of those teams. We played both of them twice, and we played both of them recently.
“We’ll be very, very familiar. Us securing the double bye is obviously a positive on numerous fronts. First and foremost, we had our compact schedule at the end of the year, where we really didn’t have the chance to practice. There were a lot of games in a shorter amount of time. Everyone had one; I’m not complaining about it. But we had ours at the end, and so now if we didn’t secure the double-bye, we wouldn’t have this day to kind of regroup and self-evaluate and reflect. Hopefully, this will give us a chance to identify some things that we need to tweak, fix or whatnot and keep it moving.”
Michigan will tip off around 9 p.m. ET Friday at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.
