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Dusty May
	May with the FAU Owls in 2023
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Michigan
Conference	Big Ten
Record	9–3 (.750)
Annual salary	$3.75 million
Biographical details
Born	December 30, 1976 (age 47); Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S.
Alma mater	Indiana (2000)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2005–2006	Eastern Michigan (assistant)
2006–2007	Murray State (assistant)
2007–2009	UAB (assistant)
2009–2015	Louisiana Tech (assistant)
2015–2018	Florida (assistant)
2018–2024	Florida Atlantic
2024–present	Michigan
Head coaching record
Overall	135–72 (.652)
Tournaments	4–2 (NCAA Division I); 0–1 (CBI); 0–1 (CIT)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
	NCAA Division I Regional – Final Four (2023); C-USA tournament (2023); C-USA regular season (2023);
Awards
	C-USA Coach of the Year (2023);

Dusty A. May (born December 30, 1976) is an American college basketball coach, currently the men's basketball head coach at the University of Michigan. He was the head coach for Florida Atlantic University from 2018 to 2024, leading the Owls to the NCAA Final Four in 2023. May was hired by Michigan in 2024, replacing Juwan Howard.

Coaching career

Early years and Florida Atlantic

After graduating from Eastern Greene High School in Indiana in 1995, May served as a student manager at Indiana under Bob Knight as an undergraduate from 1996 to 2000.^[2] After graduation, he had video and administrative roles with both USC and Indiana before landing his first assistant coaching job at Eastern Michigan, where he was on staff for the 2005–2006 season.^[3] May then had subsequent stops at Murray State, and UAB, where he served under former Indiana head coach Mike Davis.^[4] He joined the staff at Louisiana Tech where he was an assistant under both Kerry Rupp and Mike White.^[5]

May followed White to take an assistant coaching job at Florida, where he served from 2015 to 2018 before being named the head coach at Florida Atlantic on March 22, 2018, replacing Michael Curry.^[6]^[7]^[8] As head coach at Florida Atlantic he compiled a 126–69 record, including a Final Four appearance in 2023, the first in school history. May never finished a season with a losing record.^[9]

University of Michigan

2024–25

On March 23, 2024, May was named the head coach at University of Michigan, agreeing to a five-year contract, with an average value of $3.75 million annually.^[9]^[10]^[11] In his first month as head coach, May garnered seven new roster commitments in a five-day span, from April 19 to April 24.^[12] He added his eighth offseason commitment on April 29, his former star center at FAU, Vladislav Goldin.^[13] Through November, the first month of the 2024-25 season, May led Michigan to a (6–1) record, including defeating No. 22 Xavier en route to being the Fort Myers Tip-Off champions.^[14]

The next two games, Michigan opened the Big Ten Conference season winning on the road against No. 11 Wisconsin and against Iowa. It was Michigan's seventh consecutive win, the longest streak since winning 11 consecutive games to start the 2020–21 season. It was also the eighth total win (8–1), matching the Wolverines previous season’s win total (8–24).^[15] On December 9, Michigan was ranked No. 14 in the AP poll. It marked the first time the Wolverines were ranked in the AP poll since November 14, 2022, and the first time inside the top 15 since November 15, 2021.^[16]

Head coaching record

Statistics overview
Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Florida Atlantic Owls (Conference USA) (2018–2023)
2018–19	Florida Atlantic	17–16	8–10	T–9th	CIT First Round
2019–20	Florida Atlantic	17–15	8–10	9th
2020–21	Florida Atlantic	13–10	7–5	4th (East)
2021–22	Florida Atlantic	19–15	11–7	T–2nd (East)	CBI First Round
2022–23	Florida Atlantic	35–4	18–2	1st	NCAA Division I Final Four
Florida Atlantic Owls (American Athletic Conference) (2023–2024)
2023–24	Florida Atlantic	25–9	14–4	2nd	NCAA Division I Round of 64
Florida Atlantic:		126–69 (.646)	61–38 (.616)
Michigan Wolverines (Big Ten Conference) (2024–present)
2024–25	Michigan	9–3	2–0
Michigan:		9–3 (.750)	2–0 (1.000)
Total:		135–72 (.652)