John Fanta
School Basketball Broadcaster and Reporter
The College of Michigan has employed Dusty Might as its subsequent males’s basketball coach, sources informed FOX Sports activities.
After discussions between the Wolverines and the now former Florida Atlantic head coach progressed within the final 24 hours, Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel and his circle made the choice to go together with the most popular teaching identify from final yr’s NCAA Match.
Might, 47, led FAU to the college’s first Closing 4 final yr, because the Owls emerged as a 9-seed within the East Area and went 35-4 on the season to make all of it the best way to Houston.
With a transfer from Convention USA to the American Athletic Convention this yr, FAU had a agency goal on its again and nonetheless went 25-9 with victories over Arizona, Texas A&M, Butler and Virginia Tech, amongst others, in a difficult non-conference schedule.
Might, a former Bob Knight supervisor and Indiana alum, will head to Ann Arbor after Michigan fired Juwan Howard following an 8-24 marketing campaign and 5 seasons, the final two of which noticed this system go 26-40. The last-place end within the Huge Ten, mixed with a number of off-the-court points, led Howard, a Fab 5 member for the Wolverines within the 90s, to be out.
In Might, Michigan is getting one of many sport’s hottest teaching names, and somebody who was getting courted by the likes of Louisville, Ohio State and others.
Sources additionally informed FOX Sports activities that Louisville had Might as its frontrunner in its head teaching search. With Might now being off the board, the Cardinals have an fascinating course of nonetheless to come back to get their man.
However as for Saturday night time, it is a win for Manuel and Michigan, who obtained a coach that took FAU – a program that had solely made one NCAA Match look earlier than he obtained there (2002) – to back-to-back NCAA Tournaments and a Closing 4.
John Fanta is a nationwide school basketball broadcaster and author for FOX Sports activities. He covers the game in a wide range of capacities, from calling video games on FS1 to serving as lead host on the BIG EAST Digital Community to offering commentary on The Area of 68 Media Community. Observe him on Twitter @John_Fanta.
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