WATCH: Michigan coach Dusty May on Wake Forest loss, areas of emphasis, 2025 recruiting, more
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan Wolverines basketball head coach Dusty May met with the media Monday morning following his team’s loss to Wake Forest and ahead of Friday’s game against TCU. Watch the video of his press conference below.
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Head coach Dusty May
Michigan lost a tight game in Greensboro Sunday night, falling 72-70 to Wake Forest. The Wolverines learned a lot, though, and that was one of the main goals of scheduling the game in the first place.
“It was,” May said. “We knew it was going to be a challenging game, especially this early. We don’t know our team well enough, our team doesn’t know us well enough. When I say ‘well enough’ — to compete at a championship level right now.
“It’s November, so our job as coaches is to figure out solutions to our problems. And some things we know — you just don’t know the extent of it. You don’t know how much you can be exposed in certain areas. We are disappointed that we weren’t able to go and get what we think would be a Quad 1 win at the end of the year, just because of our respect for the staff and roster and program as a whole.
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“They’ve been teetering on that tournament / NIT for the last couple years, and they should be in position to break through. So that’s the reason we played the game. It’s good for the brand, it’s good for us to be exposed in certain areas, as long as we respond in the right way, as long as it doesn’t hurt our confidence. But I think we have a group that’s confident by nature, so as long as we take the lessons the right way and we’re not worried about protecting ego, then we’ll be fine.”
Michigan has turned the ball over 16 times each of the first two games of the season. May discussed his overall evaluation of the issues, part of which stems with having new pieces playing together early in the season.
“There are a few layers to that,” May said. “First and foremost, we’ve gotta get back to our identity, which is trying to create offense for each other — to do it as a group, as a unit and trust that if it doesn’t happen for me right now, because of our unselfishness, because of our ability and skill level, that it’ll happen for me.
“Last night, we probably tried to do it a little bit too much individually. The most disappointing part of it was just the play after the play. We’ve spent so much time on our concepts, and it seemed like — under those adverse conditions — we didn’t do the things that we’ve practiced a lot, and that’s on us as coaches that it wasn’t hammered home to an extent when we can do it in the most stressful situations.”
