In the NCAA Tournament, Michigan won’t have to worry about playing on back-to-back days. And they have the talent to keep up with just about anyone in the country, evidence by their 68-62 loss to open the regular season against the consensus No. 1 South Carolina.

Dusty May did the unexpected when he took over the Michigan head coaching job. The Wolverines won just eight games last season under Juwan Howard and after bringing in an essentially new roster, Michigan not only competed to win the Big Ten regular season,

Yet, Michigan basketball took the Big Ten conference tournament title and earned a No. 5 seed in the NCAA tournament beginning this week. On Thursday they get to play UC San Diego (30-4), which was one of the hottest-shooting teams in the country from the Big West Conference.