Michigan basketball coach Dusty May reflects on the Final Four run

Michigan basketball has been playing for, at the very least, a Final Four appearance all season long. And after taking on a hungry Tennessee team in the Elite Eight, mission accomplished. The 1-seeded Wolverines won the Midwest region of the NCAA Tournament on Sunday, after beating the Vols, 95-62, at the United Center in Chicago.

With the win, the maize and blue will play in their ninth Final Four (seventh, if you don't count the two Fab Five appearances, which have been vacated) and will face Arizona on Saturday night with a chance to play in the national championship game. However, the first attendant business is the aftermath of the game against the Volunteers. Here is everything Dusty May had to say in his postgame press conference.

Opening statement We're extremely proud of our guys, the way they competed against a storied program like Tennessee that's as well-coached as anyone in the country, against a team that has battled all year and really improved as the season's gone on, but our guys have been up to the challenge to deliver in the biggest moments all year, and nothing changed tonight. But just to be proud, we're all just very proud to be a part of this group. When you guys flashed the way you did in Vegas, and obviously everybody starts talking about this team as a potential Final Four team, what's the challenge as a coach to try to figure out how you take that and extend it all the way out to March and April?

I think the most difficult part is that everyone starts getting so much more attention, advice, literally everything they get more of. It's difficult not to make it about you because the people you're talking to are making it about you. Everyone is having those same things going on.