Two years ago, Dusty May took over an 8-24 Michigan team. Now, they are national champions.

INDIANAPOLIS — The golf carts were ready outside the Michigan locker room early Tuesday morning. One was for Wolverine players like star forward Yaxel Lendeborg, his shirt soaked with water as he bear-hugged the school’s newest trophy, and point guard Elliot Cadeau, the Final Four’s Most Outstanding Player, still sporting ski goggles the way champions do to survive locker room celebrations. But their wheels stayed in park, unable to rip down the carpeted hallways of Lucas Oil Stadium and toward the victors’ news conference following their 69-63 win over UConn because the other golf cart remained empty.The game’s biggest star was missing.Advertisement