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Column: Even if shorthanded, Michigan basketball’s starters have to be better to compete in the Big Ten

Coming into the 2021-22 season, hopes were exponentially high for the Michigan Wolverines. Sure, they lost some key contributors from their Elite Eight run the season prior, but two starters in Eli Brooks and Hunter Dickinson were coming back. Those two were supposed to be good enough as a talented group of true freshmen and a Group of 5 star point guard transfer caught their grips playing at the next level.

But if you have been following this team throughout their 7-6 start to the season, you know it couldn't be further from the truth.

Brooks and Dickinson have been holding their own, but they have had nowhere near the help they need to get things rolling for this team.