Inside Michigan Coach Dusty May’s Real Dream Team: Meet the Wife and Three Kids Behind His Rise
For University of Michigan men’s basketball coach Dusty May, hoops is a family affair: he met wife Anna in grade school, and now their three sons are all in the game.
Dusty May did not just take a college job; he basically moved his entire life onto a basketball court. Michigan men’s hoops hired him, his family came with him, and now half the roster introductions sound like a roll call at Thanksgiving.
The quick backdrop
May went national in 2023 when he took Florida Atlantic to the Final Four and lost on a semifinal buzzer-beater to San Diego State. Michigan hired him in 2025, and the turnaround was instant: a 19-win swing in year one, and that 2025-26 team kept going all the way to the 2026 championship game. Year two? Back in the Final Four. Also very on-brand: two of his three sons are now part of the Wolverines program.
'Most of our lives revolve around basketball. Holidays like Thanksgiving, we’re traveling to where games are. Christmas, we have maybe three days off.'
— Charlie May to Hour Detroit in 2025
Meet the Mays
- Anna May (the original teammate) — Dusty and Anna met as first graders at Eastern Greene Elementary in Indiana, started dating in high school, and kept it going long distance through college. He worked as a team manager under Hall of Famer Bob Knight at Indiana; she went to rival Purdue. They graduated and got married in 2000. Anna is now an occupational therapist. In 2023 she told Sports Illustrated: 'I don’t remember a time when I didn’t love Dusty and have feelings for Dusty.'
- Jack May (the eldest) — Walk-on at Florida from 2020 to 2024, where he made the SEC Academic Honor Roll four times. Played 21 games for the Gators and scored 15 points total. Graduated in Sport Management and now works for the NBA’s Miami Heat.
- Charlie May (the middle son on the floor) — Transferred to Michigan from UCF in 2024 and has appeared in 11 games across the last two seasons. A reserve on the 2025-26 Wolverines team that cruised through the 2026 NCAA Tournament to the title game. Fun wrinkle: that means father and son hit their first championship game the same year.
- Eli May (the youngest, in the trenches) — Following Dad’s early path as a student manager, now working under Dusty at Michigan. And yes, he does the real grunt work.
'I’m technically in charge of him and he never complains. Eli is doing grunt work a lot of people wouldn’t do. That’s how you could tell it was different.'
— Michigan student manager Sam Saraceno to USA Today in April 2026
The vibe
This is a basketball-first family that treats the calendar like a road map to arenas. The coach who shocked the country with FAU is now stacking deep March runs in Ann Arbor, while one son suits up, another hauls the gear, and Mom has seen it all since elementary school. If you’re looking for a tidy logline: the Mays have turned Michigan into a full-family production — and they’re not waiting around for a post-credits scene.