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'Taste' of Big Ten basketball makes Michigan's Hunter Dickinson hungry to be impact player

There’s still no definitive date when the curtains will open on the Big Ten basketball season. But when they do, Michigan’s Hunter Dickinson has already gotten a sneak peek of what to expect.

During the summer, the freshman center participated in a workout with a couple of the conference’s premier big men in Iowa’s Luka Garza, who is entering his senior year as a top candidate to win national player of the year, and Maryland’s Jalen Smith, who entered the NBA Draft after his sophomore season.

Dickinson, Garza and Smith all played AAU ball for Washington, D.