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I'll admit it: I'm in my feelings about basketball. I think Juwan is a good but not perfect coach who is taking blame for things he has no control over. So to cope, I have scoured the recruiting services for a very specific thing: a big, damn goon. If Matt Painter can take the lumpen mass that was Zach Edey and churn out the player of the year 3 years later, why not us? So I took to searching for some big ass goons, unranked behemoths that Juwan might give the Big Country treatment. I was hoping to start at 7-5 and go from there.
After a get-right victory in Evanston on Thursday, the Michigan Wolverines came home to Crisler Center in Ann Arbor and won their second straight game, a confident, decisive win over their bitter rival Ohio State. Hunter Dickinson was the best player on the floor, thrashing OSU inside to the tune of 26 points on 10/15 from the floor, while Kobe Bufkin and Jett Howard both chipped in double digits in what was one of Michigan's best offensive performances of the season. They moved the ball well, created loads of good looks, and rarely fell into a slump, stomaching a strong outing from Ohio State's Bruce Thornton to win 77-69. Michigan led the game wire-to-wire and they did so by getting out to a hot start. Dug McDaniel swished a three for the first points of the game for either team and that was followed up by a Kobe Bufkin triple and a couple Hunter Dickinson scores inside. The game progressed rather back and forth, staying with a possession or two until a 7-0 Michigan run b