When the Michigan men’s basketball team was desperate for a basket on Sunday, Hunter Dickinson delivered.
That has become a common theme for the Wolverines, who played through their 7-foot-1 freshman center to avoid a colossal upset in an overtime win over Oakland on Nov. 29 and then did the same to fend off Penn State’s comeback bid on Sunday afternoon.
Trailing by two points with 2:08 remaining, fifth-year senior guard Mike Smith came off a ball screen and wrapped a bounce pass around the defense to a rolling Dickinson. He gathered the pass underneath the rim and threw down a game-tying two-handed dunk.