Inside the week Michigan basketball became a leading title contender: 'Just scratching the surface'

LAS VEGAS — Dusty May breaks from watching film on Sunday afternoon when a visitor stops by Michigan’s temporary headquarters inside a ballroom at the Park MGM Hotel. May has been awake since about 3:30 a.m., when he whispered to ask his wife if it was OK if he opened his laptop and started watching film of San Diego State, Michigan’s first opponent in the Players Era Festival. “We’re on the verge of being good,” the Michigan coach tells his visitor. “Three days, see where we are.” The seventh-ranked Wolverines had an uneven start to the season. They scored a school-record 69...