Sources: FAU’s Dusty May concurs to offer to endedupbeing next coach at Michigan

The University of Michigan has employed Dusty May as its next males’s basketball coach, sources informed FOX Sports. 

After conversations inbetween the Wolverines and the now previous Florida Atlantic head coach advanced in the last 24 hours, Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel and his circle made the choice to go with the mostpopular training name from last year’s NCAA Tournament.

May, 47, led FAU to the school’s veryfirst Final Four last year, as the Owls emerged as a 9-seed in the East Region and went 35-4 on the season to make it all the method to Houston.

With a relocation from Conference USA to the American Athletic Conference this year, FAU had a company target on its back and still went 25-9 with success over Arizona, Texas A&M, Butler and Virginia Tech, amongst others, in a difficult non-conference schedule.

May, a previous Bob Knight supervisor and Indiana alum, will head to Ann Arbor after Michigan fired Juwan Howard following an 8-24 project and 5 seasons, the last 2 of which saw the program go 26-40. The last-place surface in the Big Ten, integrated with several off-the-court problems, led Howard, a Fab Five member for the Wolverines in the 90s, to be out.

In May, Michigan is getting one of the sport’s mostpopular training names, and somebody who was getting courted by the likes of Louisville, Ohio State and others.

Sources likewise informed FOX Sports that Louisville had May as its frontrunner in its head training search. With May now being off the board, the Cardinals have an fascinating procedure still to come to get their guy.

But as for Saturday night, it’s a win for Manuel and Michigan, who got a coach that took FAU – a program that had just made one NCAA Tournament look before he got there (2002) – to back-to-back NCAA Tournaments and a Final Four.

John Fanta is a nationwide college basketball broadcaster and author for FOX Sports. He covers the sport in a range of capabilities, from calling videogames on FS1 to serving as lead host on the BIG EAST Digital Network to supplying commentary on The Field of 68 Media Network. Follow him on Twitter @John_Fanta.