Saturday afternoon's game between Michigan basketball and Indiana will be an epic Big Ten homecoming for U-M head coach Dusty May.

For the third time in the last decade, Indiana will need a new men’s basketball coach. But the circumstances around this job are different.

Dusty May will return to his alma mater Indiana, where he spent four years as a student manager under Bob Knight, on Saturday with the Wolverines.

May climbed the coaching ladder all the way to Ann Arbor. His Wolverines are 16-5 overall and 9-2 in the Big Ten, good for a tie for second place with Michigan State and a half-game behind 10-2 Purdue entering Friday’s games. He spoke this week about his return to Assembly Hall.

May, a student basketball manager at Indiana in the late 1990s, will return to Bloomington on Saturday as Michigan's head coach.

Michigan Wolverines men’s basketball coach Dusty May heads back to his alma mater of Indiana University on Saturday with one goal: grabbing a victory. Indiana is set to move on from head coach Mike Woodson after this season as a negotiation plays itself out.

Dusty May, former student manager under Bob Knight from 1996-2000 and IU graduate, was a heavily anticipated candidate for a head coaching vacancy. After leading Florida Atlantic University to back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances — including a trip to the Final Four in 2023 — May looked like an obvious choice to revert the Hoosiers' struggles.

On Saturday, Indiana and No. 24 Michigan will play a basketball game, and yes, it will involve principles apart from coaches Mike Woodson and Dusty May. In Indiana’s case, there are a couple of statistical distinctions that stand out – and one of them might surprise you.

Michigan basketball head coach Dusty May got honest about his motivation ahead of the team’s visit to Indiana. The Wolverines are coming off a thrilling victory over Oregon in what has been a very encouraging season so far.