Here’s how May Madness started: Dusty May didn’t even plan to take the Florida Atlantic University coaching job. He chuckles from his desk as he says this five seasons later, with the FAU men’s basketball team being ranked No. 19, riding a 20-game win streak and having sold out their arena for the rest of the season.
Back then, May was happy as a University of Florida assistant coach. He had two children in high school and didn’t want to uproot his family, yet again, for a coach’s wandering life. That’s not even getting in the reason why the job was open: FAU had seven consecutive losing seasons before he arrived.
“Then, when I drove down here, the GPS took me down U.S. 1 in Boca Raton,’’ May said. “I said to my wife, ‘This is beautiful.’ We began talking and …'’
