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WATCH: Dusty May, Michigan players break down win over Indiana

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Dusty May
Michigan Wolverines basketball head coach Dusty May led his team to a win over Indiana. (Photo by Rich Janzaruk/Herald-Times / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Michigan Wolverines basketball head coach Dusty May, junior forward/center Danny Wolf, junior guard Tre Donaldson and graduate center Vladislav Goldin met with the media following a 70-67 win over Indiana Saturday at Assembly Hall. Watch video of the sessions with the media below.

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Michigan head coach Dusty May

Junior forward/center Danny Wolf

Junior guard Tre Donaldson

May was proud of the way his team fought for 40 minutes. Michigan held an 18-point lead in the first half and the game was tied up late, but the Wolverines finished strong.

“I want to start by commending Indiana on the second half,” May said. “They played really good basketball. They played determined. This was a great game for our sport, for our league. Fortunately, we found a way to make the plays when we needed to.

“I thought the difference in the game was holding a team that gets 33-plus percent of their shots back offensive rebounding wise to 22 percent of those. We’re not winning this game if we can’t control the glass like we were able to tonight.

“It really started the last possession against Oregon. We had been very, I don’t want to say lax on our box outs and physicality when shots when up. The last possession, our guys showed we can be the hammer when we chose to. And I thought, for the most part tonight, even the ones they got, it was because the ball bounced a certain way or they had a numbers advantage. I thought our guys played with great physicality and determination to rebound the ball.

“And to go 0-for-9 from three in the second half and still find a way is a testament of a team that just has a belief that they’re gonna figure it out.”

Michigan’s head coach was asked about Indiana’s open head coaching job, given that he was a student manager at the university. He was cheered by the Hoosier fans before the game and has drawn interest from the fan base to become the next year coach.

“First of all, it’s flattering,” May said. “To have the path that I had and have — I’m still on that same path — it makes you feel good, because what’s your competitive advantages as a student manager that transferred in from being a marginal Division-II player? You just think back and it’s like, man, all I did was show great energy and passion for this game, and helping people every day. Because of that, I think people always saw something and then believed in me, and then you get to this point.

“But that stuff’s crazy. I love being at Michigan. I love our team. We’re fighting like crazy. That’s it. This place is my foundation, but I’m very, very happy at the University of Michigan.”

Watch the full press conferences above.

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