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CHICAGO – Dusty May’s youngest son wanted to keep playing basketball. Just like his dad once did.
Eli May had it all planned out. He was going to walk-on at South Florida, just like his eldest brother, Jack, did at Florida, and middle brother, Charlie, at UCF.
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But then Michigan called two years ago. That’s when dad came up with another idea, similar to the one he plotted for himself 30 years earlier. Eli May could join his father’s new program as a student manager, just like Dusty May had given up his uniform at Division II Oakland City University to become a student manager under former coach Bob Knight at Indiana after one semester.
“I didn’t necessarily want to take this path,” Eli May admitted earlier this week, and yet it now offers a fascinating glimpse into the mindset and demeanor his father employed to course-correct No. 1 seed Michigan so rapidly, with a chance to make the Final Four in his second season on the job with a win over No. 6 seed Tennessee in the Elite Eight on Sunday, March 29 at United Center.
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