A couple thoughts on a great day of college basketball (can we all agree there's no time of year better than March Madness?):

First, good news for bubble teams (and yes, we'll include Michigan in the discussion just to be nice) that Winthrop won the Big South tournament and Butler survived an overtime scare in the Horizon League semifinals. At 28-4, Winthrop might have stolen an at-large bid had it lost to VMI Saturday, though with VMI's sub-.500 record who knows. Butler, likewise, is in the tournament regardless, even though it's struggled down the stretch.

My gut tells me Oklahoma State's ugly loss to Baylor will keep the Cowboys out of the dance barring  a miraculous Big 12 tournament run, Stanford is probably still in despite its home loss to Arizona, and Missouri State has reason to sweat after a 17-point loss to Creighton in the Missouri Valley semifinals.

As for Michigan, not a lot to say about the massive choke job against Ohio State. The eight seed in the Big Ten tournament, the Wolverines probably need to win it all in Chicago to snap an NCAA-less streak that's a couple home meltdowns (OSU and Iowa) away from being over.

The rest of the Big Ten tourney field is set. Michigan and Minnesota open the first round at noon Thursday, followed by MSU-Northwestern in the 7-10 game and Illinois-Penn State in the nightcap. Iowa got the four seed and Purdue the five by virtue of the Big Ten's convoluted tie-breakers.

It's down to Purdue and Illinois to be the fifth tournament team from the Big Ten. Ohio State, Wisconsin and Indiana are in, and MSU is all but a lock (a loss Thursday could make it dicey). If Illinois beats Indiana in the quarterfinals - I'm assuming the Illini get past Penn State - and Purdue takes care of Iowa, there's no reason both teams shouldn't be in the 65.