Michigan Basketball Assistant Blasts 'Nonsense' Tampering Claims

Boynton shoots down tampering allegations and defends coach May

In the interview with Norlander, Boynton didn't hold back when addressing unfounded tampering allegations that have been thrown around on social media.

"It's nonsense. I wish people would just write the truth. People are fairly envious of Dusty, and it's because we're doing this (winning)," Boynton said.

After Michigan won the national title, Boynton stood firm about defending May during the celebration.

"People just finding a reason to bring down what's a pretty remarkable dude, because there's really nothing else to get him on," Boynton said. "He's pretty open, he talks to everybody, he works his ass off. He's been successful. And so the only thing is this, when the hate don't work, they start telling lies."

One of the popular, but again, unfounded claims going around social media was an allegation of tampering with one of the most prominent players in the Big Ten and college basketball.

"People making up just complete bull***t lies about the guys we were trying to supposedly tamper with, like (Purdue guard) Braden Smith," said Boynton. "The narrative was we were trying to recruit Braden Smith at the Big Ten Tournament last year. I'll say this: If we could recruit Braden Smith and he went into the portal, we would, but we couldn't recruit Braden Smith because you cannot get juniors into school at Michigan. And people just ran with it. They still run with it. It's irresponsible. It's sad, but because it's a high enough profile name that it would draw attention, people are just lazy and go with it."