Going Nowhere Without the Coach
Reversing Michigan’s Fortunes As players become more transient in the N.I.L. era, coaches like Dusty May are often the main attraction. Candace Buckner - The Athletic The New York Times - Mercoledì 8 aprile 2026 Pagina 1 INDIANAPOLIS — The golf carts were ready to go outside the locker room of the University of Michigan men’s basketball team early Tuesday morning. One was for players like forward Yaxel Lendeborg, his shirt soaked as he bear-hugged the school’s newest trophy, and point guard Elliot Cadeau, the Final Four’s most outstanding player. The two players were still wearing ski goggles, the way champions do to survive postgame celebrations. But the golf carts stayed in park, unable to head toward the victors’ news conference at Lucas Oil Stadium after Michigan’s 69-63 national championship win against UConn, because one of them remained empty. The game’s biggest star was missing. “Where’d Coach go?” a Michigan staff member asked the driver in an attempt to locate Dusty May....