May climbed the coaching ladder all the way to Ann Arbor. His Wolverines are 16-5 overall and 9-2 in the Big Ten, good for a tie for second place with Michigan State and a half-game behind 10-2 Purdue entering Friday’s games. He spoke this week about his return to Assembly Hall.

Dusty May will return to his alma mater Indiana, where he spent four years as a student manager under Bob Knight, on Saturday with the Wolverines.

Saturday afternoon's game between Michigan basketball and Indiana will be an epic Big Ten homecoming for U-M head coach Dusty May.

Michigan Wolverines men’s basketball coach Dusty May heads back to his alma mater of Indiana University on Saturday with one goal: grabbing a victory. Indiana is set to move on from head coach Mike Woodson after this season as a negotiation plays itself out.

Dusty May, former student manager under Bob Knight from 1996-2000 and IU graduate, was a heavily anticipated candidate for a head coaching vacancy. After leading Florida Atlantic University to back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances — including a trip to the Final Four in 2023 — May looked like an obvious choice to revert the Hoosiers' struggles.

Michigan basketball head coach Dusty May made a surprising comment ahead of the Wolverines' clash against Indiana

As Michigan visits Assembly Hall on Saturday, Dusty May returns to a place he once was a student-manager. Here's May's journey from Greene County to Indiana to Michigan.