Hunter Dickinson Required Podcast To Declare His Career At Michigan Was Better Than Cassius Winston’s At MSU

Death, taxes, and Hunter Dickinson's mouth writing checks his ass can't cash. These are certainties in life.

The latest would-be-shocking-if-it-weren't-coming-from-the-singular-biggest-asshole-in-college-basketball development surrounding the sport's least-accomplished villain is a doozy, even by Dickinson's standards.

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According to Greg Waddell of The Sleepers, Dickinson once agreed to appear on his podcast, but only under the condition that the host would unequivocally declare Dickinson's career at Michigan superior to that of Cassius Winston at Michigan State's.

Despite the dubious nature of stories like this on the internet, I believe this, on account of: the fact that Waddell is rather confidently sharing the anecdote very publicly and offering to publish screenshots of corroborating text messages; and that this is Hunter Dickinson we're talking about here.

Even though this is an obvious troll job by the worst troll in sports, I'll bite. Let's compare the resumes of Winston and Dickinson from their times at Michigan State and U-M, respectively.

Cassius Winston

Career record: 104-36 (.743)

Big Ten record: 56-20 (.737)

Career points per game: 14.2

Career assists per game: 6.4

Career turnovers per game: 2.7

Career 3-point shooting: 43.2 percent

Career free-throw shooting: 85.2 percent

Two-time consensus second-team All-American (2019, 2020)

Big Ten Player of the Year (2019)

Two-time first-team All Big Ten (2019, 2020)

Third-team All Big Ten (2018)

Big Ten tournament Most Outstanding Player (2019)

Three consecutive Big Ten championships (2018, 2019, 2020)

Big Ten tournament championship: (2019)

NCAA tournament appearances: Each season (The 2020 tournament was canceled due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but MSU would certainly have been in the field)

Final Fours: 1 (and probably a second had the aforementioned 2020 tournament been held)

Hunter Dickinson

Career record: 60-36 (.625)

Big Ten record: 36-21 (.632)

Career points per game: 17.2

Career rebounds per game: 8.4

Career 3-point shooting: 36.3 percent

Career free-throw shooting: 75.3 percent

One-time consensus second-team All-American (2021)

Zero-time Big Ten Player of the Year

Two-time first-team All Big Ten (2021, 2023)

Second-team All Big Ten (2022)

Zero-time Big Ten tournament Most Outstanding Player

One fake and/or disputed Big Ten championship (2020)

0 Big Ten tournament championships

NCAA tournament appearances: Two of three seasons

Final Fours: 0

That bit of stats and info may not paint the entire picture, though, so let's break down this comparison further.

Cassius Winston

• Has never predicted his team would beat an opponent by 20, then get blown out by said opponent.

• Has never worn a ski mask to a game, saying his team would steal a win only for them to, in fact, lose.

• Has never trash-talked an opposing team's coach.

• Has never denigrated a rival university's admission criteria while boasting about his own school's rigorous standards, blissfully ignorant of the fact that he himself would not measure up to said standards if he weren't 7-foot-1.

• Has never arrogantly bloviated about the superiority of his school, only to abandon said school and trash virtually anyone associated with it afterward.

Hunter Dickinson

• Has predicted his team would beat an opponent by 20, then get blown out by said opponent.

• Has worn a ski mask to a game, saying his team would steal a win only for them to, in fact, lose.

• Has trash-talked an opposing team's coach.

• Has denigrated a rival university's admission criteria while boasting about his own school's rigorous standards, blissfully ignorant of the fact that he himself would not measure up to said standards if he weren't 7-foot-1.

• Has arrogantly bloviated about the superiority of his school, only to abandon said school and trash virtually anyone associated with it afterward.

And if that still hasn't presented these two in stark contrast, we'll leave you with this table, which ought to do the trick.