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WATCH: Dusty May, Michigan players break down loss to Maryland

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Dusty May
Michigan Wolverines basketball head coach Dusty May took his team from last place in the conference to a Big Ten contender in his first season. (Photo by Junfu Han / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan Wolverines basketball head coach Dusty May, junior forward/center Danny Wolf and graduate center Vladislav Goldin met with the media following a 71-65 loss to Maryland Wednesday night at Crisler Center. Watch video of the press conferences in the players below.

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Michigan head coach Dusty May

Junior forward / center Danny Wolf

Graduate center Vladislav Goldin

Michigan won 13 games on its home floor but lost the last two, falling to Illinois and Maryland. May began his press conference by lauding the Wolverine faithful, who helped create a big boost in the second half of tonight’s ball game.

“First off, we’d love to thank our fans for the contributions they made in Crisler this year,” May said. “We created a home court environment. We had great energy, especially tonight with spring break and people out of town.

“Obviously, the last couple we haven’t performed at the level that we’d like, but this is part of it. Obviously, we’d love to be riding a wave of success right now, but we gotta figure some things out. There’s a lot of meaningful, heightened basketball in front of us in the near future, and personally I’m excited for the opportunity and the challenge to get this thing going in the right direction as we head into the postseason.”

Michigan shot 44 percent from the field, 7-of-20 from three-point distance (35 percent). May was asked about the offense being stagnant and what the reasons were for it.

“The cutting early, and then the ball fakes,” May said. “They changed defenses. They were running a zone to man, man to zone, and so it comes down to concepts and principles. And we didn’t play with great discipline.

“Against a defense like this, the one-handed hook passes … and I do think when we penetrated, they collapses on Vlad, and we didn’t find the penetration reactions that we need to against a team like that. But credit Maryland. They keep you off balance. There’s a reason they’re in the second best defense in our league while playing really only five guys that are in their rotation.

“But we were static, we didn’t finish around the rim when we had opportunities and, obviously, tonight for us to shoot 7 for 20 [from three-point distance] is moving in the right direction for us. When you’re not finishing, you’re turning it over and you’re not shooting well from three, you gotta figure out other ways.

“Credit our guys — they fought like crazy, dug in and tried to win an ugly one. And we just came up short.”

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