Saturday afternoon's game between Michigan basketball and Indiana will be an epic Big Ten homecoming for U-M head coach Dusty May.

On Saturday, Indiana and No. 24 Michigan will play a basketball game, and yes, it will involve principles apart from coaches Mike Woodson and Dusty May. In Indiana’s case, there are a couple of statistical distinctions that stand out – and one of them might surprise you.

May climbed the coaching ladder all the way to Ann Arbor. His Wolverines are 16-5 overall and 9-2 in the Big Ten, good for a tie for second place with Michigan State and a half-game behind 10-2 Purdue entering Friday’s games. He spoke this week about his return to Assembly Hall.

As Michigan visits Assembly Hall on Saturday, Dusty May returns to a place he once was a student-manager. Here's May's journey from Greene County to Indiana to Michigan.

Michigan basketball head coach Dusty May got honest about his motivation ahead of the team’s visit to Indiana. The Wolverines are coming off a thrilling victory over Oregon in what has been a very encouraging season so far.

May, a student basketball manager at Indiana in the late 1990s, will return to Bloomington on Saturday as Michigan's head coach.

Dusty May will return to his alma mater Indiana, where he spent four years as a student manager under Bob Knight, on Saturday with the Wolverines.

Dusty May, a former Indiana student manager, returns to Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall for the first time as a head coach Saturday in his first year at Michigan.