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Podcast: Michigan voice Brian Boesch talks Dusty May, Yaxel Lendeborg, more

Anthony Broomeby:Anthony Broome•05/26/25•

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Michigan Wolverines basketball head coach Dusty May won a Big Ten Tournament tile. (Photo by Junfu Han / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

The Michigan Wolverines men’s basketball program had a better year under head coach Dusty May than anyone could have expected, and radio voice Brian Boesch had a front row seat for all of it.

Boesch, who does Michigan’s play-by-play in addition to hosting football broadcasts, joins TheWolverine.com’s Anthony Broome and Clayton Sayfie for a look behind the curtain of the hoops program, his thoughts on Dusty May, experiences working basketball and football games and much more.

 ”Dusty’s not someone who after games will have these long conversations with the players [after games],” Boesch said of May’s coaching philosophy. “I would say that the length of conversation he had with players and the team after the games was well under five minutes on average. The one really long one was the Purdue loss on the road. A story he recalled was when he was an assistant, they had a bad loss and the head coach just kept everybody in there yelling, screaming, talking for 45 minutes, almost an hour. And Dusty took that as a lesson of saying that that might have made that coach feel better in the moment because he’s blowing off some steam after a tough loss. It’s not really anything that’s helping the players.

“He wants to have those conversations with players after he’s been able to sink into the tape and the data, which wasn’t as prevalent back then as it is now, so that when he does have a 15,-20 minute conversation with the team before a practice or before a road trip, something like that he’s maximizing what he’s saying because it’s enforced by studying the film.

“Roddy Gayle Jr., as an example, his practice numbers [shooting] were pretty good. There’s no doubt that if you watched him shoot until that Texas A&M game, you’re probably thinking as a fan, ‘How in the world are his numbers good?’ Then it all broke through, and it did at a perfect time. You can’t necessarily draw that up every time. But there was a belief there, there was a belief that Tre Donaldson could handle the basketball late in games. There was a belief in Danny Wolf and Vlad Golden that they could craft one of the most unique one-two punches in college basketball.”

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