Dusty May reportedly decides on North Carolina candidacy
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Dusty May is happy in his current world as the head coach at Michigan, and he made that clear on Sunday afternoon as he gets ready to coach the Wolverines in the national championship game.
According to a report on Sunday by ESPN insiders Pete Thamel and Jeff Borzello, May has informed Michigan officials “that he’s not pursuing any college basketball jobs.” On the eve of Michigan’s clash with UConn for all the marbles in Indianapolis, May wanted to clear the air and make everyone aware that he’s not going anywhere, most notably North Carolina, which had reportedly targeted May for its vacant head coaching job since parting ways with Hubert Davis.
The ESPN report stated that May’s candidacy for the UNC job “never materialized because of Michigan advancing in the NCAA Tournament.”
Michigan has kept advancing, straight through to the national title game, with May leading the Wolverines to a blowout of fellow top seed Arizona on Saturday night to get them into position to win it all on Monday night. That is May’s focus right now, his only focus, and he has reportedly made that abundantly clear to Michigan officials.
North Carolina flopped in a first-round NCAA Tournament loss to VCU, and shortly after it fired Davis, setting off a high-publicized search that has stretched right into the Final Four. On Friday, Arizona’s Tommy Lloyd, the coach who May defeated soundly on Saturday, made it clear he wasn’t going to North Carolina and agreed to a lucrative 5-year contract at Arizona on top of it.
So, the Tar Heels’ coaching search continues, apparently minus May, who has his mind on other things right now as the biggest game of the season looms on Monday night.
May is immersed in a battle for everything that will come on Monday night in Indianapolis, and here is what the Kalshi market is currently saying about the odds for the Michigan-UConn championship game clash:
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
