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Shorthanded Michigan basketball gets biggest win of the season, at Rutgers, 58-45

Joey Baker turned the corner and tried to drive the lane, but hit a wall.

Michigan basketball's senior, making his second start of the season in place of the injured Jett Howard, stopped on a dime, spun and kicked the ball out to a trailing Hunter Dickinson. The 7-foot-1 junior center caught and released in one motion before he held the pose as he watched the ball swish through the net.

It gave Michigan an eight-point lead early in the second half, forced a Rutgers timeout and felt like the moment the Wolverines fully believed they could pull off its most important win of the year.