At a media availability in Ann Arbor this summer, Michigan men’s basketball coach Dusty May was asked about the lack of volume three-point shooting on the 2025-26 roster.
Like skinning a cat, there’s more than one way to win a basketball game. But in an era where most teams are launching threes at a historic clip — in late February, just less than 80 percent of the 363 DI teams were attempting 20 or more threes per game, the highest mark in men’s college basketball history — three-point shooting is a priority because it can lengthen a lead and get a team back into a game quickly.