Jerry Dunn is back at work for the Michigan basketball team. His role, however, is a little bit different.

Dunn took a leave of absence in December to tend to a personal issue within his family. At the time, it was unclear whether or not he’d return this season. On Monday, Dunn came back in more of an administrative role.

“He’s going to take Jeff Meyer’s responsibilities,” Michigan coach John Beilein said. “He wants to get back and coach again, but he understands other than seeing a couple games on TV, he’s been away from it.

“So he’ll help us in other areas.”

Meyer, the administrative specialist at Michigan who was an assistant coach at Indiana before that, took over for Dunn when in December. Meyer will remain as an assistant coach for the remainder of the season - at least.

Dunn, meanwhile, will do behind-the-scenes work such as setting up gym schedules and dealing with issues of compliance. As an administrative liaison, Dunn will be unable to do any on-court coaching and cannot scout opponents, according to NCAA regulations.

“He actually can’t talk to us about basketball,” Beilein said. “He can only do, you can only have three guys talk about basketball. He can give us generic examples, but he cannot talk to us about basketball. He’s not part of the staff because Jeff has assumed his duty.

“He wants to get back into coaching, but he doesn’t feel right now he can just jump back.”

Beilein said he’ll review the situation after the season. Dunn wa the head coach at Penn State from 1995-2003.

Keeping Matt Vogrich engaged If there is one person on Michigan’s roster whose minutes have fluctuated, it is freshman Matt Vogrich.

The Lake Forest, Ill., native has bounced from a season-high 21 minutes against Purdue to seeing the floor for a minute a game later against Michigan State. Part of it is being a young guy and the other is backing up Michigan’s most versatile player, Manny Harris.

Yet Beilein keeps him focused by saying, well, it’s normal for his minutes to bounce around like that.

“You have to say that virtually 80 percent of the freshmen you have, you’re typical,” Beilein said. “There’s maybe 20 percent that are like that, you look at that West Virginia team right now, Da’Sean Butler was the atypical freshmen and Wellington Smith and Joe Mazzulla were the typical freshmen, and they are all very good players right now.

“Very rarely does a guy come around that is ready to play or your program is down so much or that they have to play.”

This and that The Michigan-Minnesota game in Ann Arbor on March 2 will be a 7 p.m. game on the Big Ten Network. … According to Michigan’s game notes, Tom Wywrot will handle the analysis on Tuesday's radio broadcast. Jim Jackson and Dave Revsine will do the game on the Big Ten Network. … Michigan is trying to win two games in a row for just the third time this season.

Michael Rothstein covers University of Michigan basketball for AnnArbor.com. He can be reached at (734) 623-2558, by e-mail at michaelrothstein@annarbor.com or follow along on Twitter @mikerothstein.