Through two seasons, Michigan basketball head coach Dusty May has won 64 games, a Big Ten tournament and regular season championship, and the most prestigious prize of them all, a national championship.
One of the reasons why he has done so much in so little time, is because not only can he can recruit, but he's hit on almost every transfer that has walked through the doors of the Crisler Center.
Besides landing a shooting guard in the portal, you can argue that May has recruited that position the hardest with Trey McKenney and newcomers on the way.
One name that is missing from this list, but can be factored in after next season, would be Moustapha Thiam. Big things are expected from him with the bar set so high by the others who have come before him. The rest are as follows.
Dusty May's all-time transfer team
Point Guards-Tre Donaldson, Elliot Cadeau, L.J. Cason
All three of these primary ball handlers have had their moments in the maize and blue. Donaldson stabilized the point after Dug McDaniel went shopping for another opportunity. Without Donaldson, there would be no Elliot Cadeau.
Cadeau spurned North Carolina for a better chance to play, and boy did it pay off, by winning the MOP of the Final Four. While Cason was not a transfer per se, he has grown into a reliable backup before his injury and should be better than ever when he returns to the lineup.
Point Forwards-Danny Wolf, Yaxel Lendeborg
From Yale to Michigan to the NBA, Danny Wolf flourished under May in just one season. He and another name on this list are the main reasons why Michigan turned it around so quickly. Then there's Yaxel Lendeborg. What can be said about him that hasn't already been told? He's the crown jewel of May's transfers. Future players will be compared to him for years to come, as he and others have set the new standard to live by in Ann Arbor.
Bigs-Vlad Goldin, Morez Johnson Jr., Aday Mara
This has been the position that has felt the Dusty May effects the most. Goldin made Taris Reed expendable and was Michigan's best center until Aday Mara came along. Mara has May and Michigan to thank for what he's accomplished and for turning his life completely around from where it was at UCLA a year ago.
Mara is on the precipice of being the highest drafted Wolverine center since the late Robert "Tractor" Traylor in 1998. As for Morez Johnson Jr., he left Illinois and fit in perfectly with May at a place that hadn't beaten the Illini for years. He and Mara helped form the best frontcourt in Michigan basketball history en route to the national spotlight shining directly on them.
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