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'Different twists' pave Jay Smith's path back to Michigan basketball

(Photo: Kalamazoo College athletics)

Ann Arbor — When Jay Smith walked out the media room at Crisler Center, he took a couple of steps before stopping, looking around and poking his head back into the room.

“Do you know how I get to the practice court?” Smith asked a group of reporters.

One can’t blame Smith because not only was it his first week on the job as Michigan basketball’s director of player personnel and development, it was his first time in this part of the building — the same one he spent seven years as an assistant coach on Steve Fisher’s staff over two decades ago.