lottery pick in the first round of the NBA draft<\/a> on Tuesday night. \u201cAnd now, after playing for him, I\u2019m a bigger fan. I have so much respect for Dusty May, I can\u2019t even tell you.\u201d<\/p>\nLendeborg said at last month\u2019s draft combine that he believed May ran Michigan\u2019s program like an NBA program in many ways.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of schemes, a lot of switching and stuff. And his offense was very much a pro-style offense,\u201d Lendeborg said. \u201cWe played fast-paced, physical, all of that. … I\u2019ve gained so much knowledge from him as far as those actions and just those little communication keys.\u201d<\/p>\n
May\u2019s rise in coaching has been meteoric, particularly after the last four seasons.<\/p>\n
He took over at Florida Atlantic in 2018 and had four consecutive seasons of finishing just over .500 \u2014 before striking gold in the 2022-23 season, going 35-4 and taking the Owls on that improbable Final Four run.<\/p>\n
May went 25-9 at FAU the following season, then went to Michigan and brought the Wolverines back to prominence. He was 64-13 in his two seasons after replacing Juwan Howard with Michigan coming off an 8-24 season, the school\u2019s lowest win total since going 7-20 in 1981-82.<\/p>\n
Michigan went 27-10 in May\u2019s debut, won the Big Ten Conference Tournament and made it to the NCAA Sweet 16.<\/p>\n
May\u2019s record in his last four college seasons was 124-26, an .827 winning percentage that was third best in all of major college men\u2019s basketball over that span behind Houston\u2019s Kelvin Sampson (.861) and Duke\u2019s Jon Scheyer (.832).<\/p>\n
The Indiana native was a student manager for the Hoosiers and coach Bob Knight while he was in school there from 1996-2000. He gained experience in scouting, video operations and player development while with the Hall of Fame coach, who died in 2023.<\/p>\n
After graduating from Indiana, May spent two seasons as an administrative assistant and video coordinator at Southern California. He returned to the Hoosiers in similar roles from 2002-05.<\/p>\n
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AP Basketball Writer Tim Reynolds in Miami and AP Sports Writer Stephen Hawkins in Arlington, Texas, contributed to this report.<\/p>\n
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