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Key takeaways
- It also comes just months after May guided Michigan to a dominant national championship run, beating UConn in the title game to cap a 37-3 season that featured 29 wins by double digits.
- May brought Michigan basketball back to the top of the sport, but after his departure, what will athletic director Warde Manuel do next?
- Manuel and Michigan are experienced when it comes to this sort of sudden, landscape-shifting move deep into the offseason.
Why this matters: a sports story that could shift standings, legacies, or fan conversations.
Michigan's Dusty May is departing the Wolverines for the Dallas Mavericks, ESPN reported Monday morning, after new team president Masai Ujiri and new general manager Mike Schmitz tabbed the reigning national champion to replace Jason Kidd.
May's departure is a seismic shock to the college basketball landscape -- coming the day before the NBA draft, almost two months after the transfer portal closed and 2½ months after North Carolina hired Michael Malone, seemingly ending the high-major conference coaching carousel.
It also comes just months after May guided Michigan to a dominant national championship run, beating UConn in the title game to cap a 37-3 season that featured 29 wins by double digits. May now becomes the first men's college basketball coach to leave in the offseason immediately following a national title since Larry Brown left Kansas for the San Antonio Spurs in 1988. (Side note: The Wolverines were also on the wrong end of this move the last time this happened, when John Beilein left for the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2019.)