At times, Michigan basketball looked like a team that had lost four of its five starters from a season ago, including one who played in more games as a Wolverine than anybody in program history.
But Monday's season opener was as much about the one man who returned from that lineup, Hunter Dickinson, as those who didn't. The junior center set the tone in the game's first minute, swatting the opening shot attempt by Purdue Fort Wayne, then scored a bucket on the other end — despite being double-teamed — with four seconds left on the shot clock.