Dusty May is college basketball's Curt Cignetti with Michigan title
If the Dusty May-Curt Cignetti comparisons seemed premature in March, they're fully legitimate in April. Two Big Ten coaches followed similar paths
The 2026 NCAA Tournament started in March. It ended in April. It belonged to Dusty May.
Michigan completed the journey and stopped the UConn dynasty to win the 2026 national championship in men's college basketball. This is Michigan's second national title, its first since 1989. Dusty May has how fully earned all the comparisons connected to Indiana football coach Curt Cignetti.
Let's share the parallels between the best coaches in their respective college sports: Year 1 Dusty May and Curt Cignetti finished between ninth and 16th in their sport in Year 1. Cignetti's Indiana football team was a No. 10 seed which lost in the first round (pre-quarterfinals) of the 12-team College Football Playoff.
May's Year 1 Michigan team reached the Sweet 16 and lost to Auburn. Year 2 Curt Cignetti and Dusty May both went from good to great in Year 2, winning the national championship at their respective programs. Total overhaul 2023 Indiana football, in the final season before Cignetti's arrival, went 3-9, a .
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