Michigan head coach Dusty May was frustrated at times last season with his team’s turnover issues. (Photo: Jacob Hamilton | MLive.com)Jacob Hamilton | MLive.com
ANN ARBOR — Michigan won the Big Ten Tournament last season and went further in the NCAA Tournament than all but one team in the conference. The Wolverines did this despite turning over the basketball at the highest rate in the league.
Head coach Dusty May was obviously aware of this problem and tried many remedies. “We punished them for months,” he explained recently. His former boss at Indiana, Bob Knight, made his players run long distances to atone for such mistakes. “We did that,” May said. “And then we gave them incentives not to turn it over. We tried just about everything.”
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