Michigan coach Dusty May was thoroughly impressed by the environment at Purdue's Mackey Arena on Friday night, calling it, 'more impressive' than he thought.

“We’ve got to fix some things,” May said. “We’ve got to find some solutions to the problems that we face.”

There's still plenty of basketball left to be played, but it looks like head coach Dusty May has completely turned around the Michigan program from where it was

Michigan coach Dusty May said his team failed to match Purdue's level of physicality in the blowout loss at Mackey Arena.

Michigan basketball's Dusty May doesn't want any fines, but he was absolutely perplexed by the refereeing in Sunday's win vs. Northwestern.

Purdue forward Trey Kaufman-Renn (4) reaches for the ball between the legs of Michigan center Vladislav Goldin (50) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in West Lafayette, Ind., Friday, Jan. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy) AP

Michigan State (14-2) has won nine in a row under Tom Izzo, now in his 30th year on the job. The Spartans, ranked No. 16, clobbered Washington at home and won at Northwestern on Sunday (78-68) since the last poll came out.

The No. 20 Michigan Wolverines have silenced skeptics with their remarkable turnaround this season, staking their claim as one of the Big Ten’s premier programs. At 13-3 overall and an unblemished 5-0 in conference play for the first time since the 2020-21 season,

The Michigan Wolverines moved to 13-3 on the season and 5-0 in Big Ten play under first-year head coach Dusty May with a 91-75 win over the visiting Washington Huskies on Sunday afternoon at a packed Crisler Center.

"We don’t really care where the Spartans are," Michigan basketball coach Dusty May said. "But I think it adds more interest to the game."

After blowing a 16-point lead in their last outing against Ohio State, No. 11 Purdue (16-5, 8-2) came into their home building with bad intent, and the Wolverines were their victims. The Boilermakers jumped to a 13-2 lead to start the game and never looked back, delivering a 91-64 beatdown of No. 21 Michigan (14-5, 6-2) on Friday night.

Braden Smith, Trey Kaufman-Renn and Fletcher Loyer get a bulk of the credit, but Michigan coach Dusty May brought up some other names for why Purdue wins.