WATCH: Dusty May on Rubin Jones status, freshman standouts, where Michigan improved in non-conference play, upcoming trip to LA
Michigan Wolverines basketball head coach Dusty May met with the media over Zoom Monday morning following his team’s non-conference finale against Western Kentucky and ahead of the trip to Los Angeles for games against USC (Jan. 4) and UCLA (Jan. 7).
Watch video of the press conference below or on our YouTube channel.
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Michigan is 2-0 in Big Ten play, having beaten Wisconsin and Iowa in early December, and now the conference season will resume later this week. The Wolverines are headed out west.
“We’re excited to get on the road and, obviously, starting conference play with three of your first four on the road is a challenge,” May said. “But we do think we were gifted a fortutious bounce with scheduling, having the LA trip during Christmas break. Our players are all in the classroom, so they don’t have online classes. So this would’ve been a tough road swing if it wasn’t during break, so it’s good timing. We feel like we’re growing as a team. It gives us a chance. It gives us even more quality time together and see how much we can improve and how far we can take this thing.”
May commented on how Michigan will approach its time in California, splitting it between preparation and team building.
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“We’ll certainly do some team building stuff,” May said. “But the phrase team building for us, every single day in practice, every day in the hotel, on the buses … we really cherish those things, and just think that when you have quality people that care about each other, just the getting to know each other better and spending time with different players, different roommates, it’s just healthy for long term relationships. I see a much stronger connection amongst our guys than we’ve had up to this point, and hopefully that continues going in the right direction, because these guys spend a lot of time together. If they can really enjoy each other’s company, then that makes it much more fun.”
The Michigan coach is used to road trips with two games, having come from mid-major conferences.
“I was in Conference USA for a number of years, and I was actually in the Pac-10 back when it was the Pac-10 conference. We were used to the Thursday-Saturdays. Those had only been a fairly normal routine. Probably more of my coaching career has been Thursday-Saturday than it hasn’t been, so it’s something that … early on we designed things to try to be a little bit different than everyone else, because of the short prep time for the second game.”
