One week into preseason practice, Michigan provided a first look at the 2025-26 roster on Tuesday afternoon for its media day. The Wolverines discussed their early progress, addressed expectations, and opened the doors to an afternoon practice.
Here are five takeaways from hearing from Dusty May’s new roster for the first time.
1. Dusty May isn’t shy about his roster talent
While May admits that he’s “optimistic by nature,” he did nothing to shy away from the expectations facing this Michigan roster. He said he holds himself to high internal standards already, but this group is embracing the external ones.
“I love our team, and I think we have a really high ceiling, and there’s nothing that makes me say we don’t have enough of this, or we don’t have enough of that to beat any team in the country on a given night,” May said. “Now are there areas that we need to certainly improve on and continue improving on, absolutely.
“But I’m not going to sit here and say that we’re afraid of this team or afraid of that team. We’re going to try to compete with everyone we’re against, and we have very, very lofty goals, but that’s months and months away and hundreds and hundreds of hours of intentional work before it’s even worth discussing those things.”
May noted that both Danny Wolf and Vlad Goldin, who were back on campus for a football game earlier this month, were impressed by what they saw.
“I don’t think anyone on last year’s team or this year’s team would disagree that we have more natural ability, more proven success on this year’s team,” May said. “We had practice and both of those guys commented about how physically big and strong we were and just how much we improved as a program in one calendar year. So I think those two guys, having lived it for a year and then seen a small sample size, agree with that assessment.”
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