Actually. I may be excessively paranoid about Michigan's chances to make the tournament. Joe Sheehan of Basketball Prospects may be a whinging prat about the Big Ten, but I like his ordering of the bubble: Texas Dayton Texas A&M Michigan Oklahoma State Ohio State Wisconsin Creighton Boston Colle...

Bubblin'. Both results last night went Michigan's way, with Gonzaga stomping St Mary's and Siena beating Niagara; St Mary's is now a bubble compatriot of Michigan's and the MAAC is a one-bid league. Diverse alarums. Lundardi, for one, has the Gaels as the second team out—Creighton is first. Did I ...

The situation, as it stands: Michigan is 9-9 in the Big Ten and is looking like a likely NCAA tournament entry. They have impressive nonconference wins and a decent record against a top-ten schedule. They are seeded seventh in the Big Ten tourney and have drawn Iowa in the first round. So what, exac...

Wheat, wheat, chaff. The last couple days have been very good for Michigan's tourney chances: South Florida 70, Cinci 59 St. John's 59, Georgetown 56 Wake Forest 65, Maryland 63 North Carolina 86, Va Tech 78 Georgia 90, Kentucky 85 Mississippi State 80, Florida 71 Georgia Tech 78, Miami 68 The only ...

Pop rocks. News on the bubble has been good for Michigan of late. You can take a neutral ESPN's word for it, or a rabidly pro-mid-major JCCW's: …the big boys and their ESPN propagandists got the results they needed from the land of mid-majors this weekend. Neither Siena nor Utah St. could handle t...

Jamiemac has beaten me to it, so the 1,000-foot summary: The Wolverines probably had the most neutral week of any of the bubble contenders, evening out a great win over Purdue with a good-looking loss to Wisconsin. They did not surge like Providence, nor did they crater a la Kentucky and Florida. A ...

Well, today's the day.  Several months of hard work for many teams comes down to today.  Selection Sunday.  And it has been in this tumultuous, wacky season, some things are still not settled. First, in the Big Ten, the Fighting Illini have continued their amazing run and knocked off ...

Well, I never got a chance to do part II until this evening and even wilder things have happened today.  We had #12 Xavier get knocked off, a tornado may have touched down near the Georgia Dome, a MAC tournament semifinal was played and officiated like a rugby match,  and we actually had a...

Truly March Madness Part I Why did I subtitle it “Holy Cowâ€� Thursday?   As a lot of the results came across the scoreboard on ESPN site, each time I said to myself “HOLY COW!â€�.  Well, ok, I used something stronger but I can’t repeat that on this blog.   Ok, yesterd...