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

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

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.

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.

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.

Michigan's Dusty May makes homecoming to Assembly Hall while Indiana's Mike Woodson begins farewell tour after announcing he'll retire after season.

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.

As Michigan visits Assembly Hall on Saturday, Dusty May returns to a place he once was a student-manager. Here's May's journey from Greene County to Indiana to Michigan.

Dusty May, a former Indiana student manager, returns to Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall for the first time as a head coach Saturday in his first year at Michigan.