How Michigan basketball stunned Ohio State without Hunter Dickinson

COLUMBUS, Ohio — On Sunday, Phil Martelli awoke in the team hotel and decided to attend 7:30 a.m. mass at St. Andrew Church. He had more than an hour before Michigan basketball’s film session that morning and silenced his cell phone for the service.  

When the event was over, Martelli, U-M’s associate head coach, glanced at his phone and saw a text: Hunter Dickinson was up all night with an illness. Dickinson had finally fallen asleep around 6 a.m. — close to the time his coaches were getting out of bed — so his status for an early tipoff against No. 23 Ohio State was unclear. Only a few hours remained before U-M’s bus departed for Value City Arena and a game they desperately needed to win.