If Michigan basketball’s season is on the brink, it would have been hard to tell Sunday based on the reaction of the team’s best player.
Relaxing in a chair inside Crisler Center, Hunter Dickinson exuded an air of nonchalance after the Wolverines tussled with the Big Ten’s worst team during a 40-minutes slog before holding on to a 60-56 victory over Minnesota. The junior center seemed more preoccupied with the fate of the Buffalo Bills, his favorite NFL team that would eventually fall to the Cincinnati Bengals in the divisional round.
“Really concerned,” he said, “if they lose it.