Wisconsin locks up its tournament bid with 75-62 home win over Michigan.
Our own Chantel Jennings had the story on Badgers forward Frank Kaminsky, who put up a McDermott-esque night: "Kaminsky was the difference in the Badgers' 13-point win. He scored 25 points on 16 field goal attempts, shot 11-of-16 from the floor, and picked up 11 rebounds, one block and one steal in just 29 minutes of play against Michigan. Defensively, he held the Wolverines in check. With strong perimeter defense not giving up anything easy from the outside, Kaminsky stayed solid inside, holding the Michigan post combo of Jon Horford and Jordan Morgan to just eight points and 11 rebounds combined.
Temple upsets SMU. Let's pause for a moment and consider how upside-down that headline is.
How strange a college basketball world we live in when Temple beating SMU in its own gym is considered an upset? But it really was an upset. Temple, 7-17 and 2-10 in the American, playing without Anthony Lee, knocked off Larry Brown's No. 23-ranked Mustangs 71-64 on Saturday afternoon. The win has more than just catharsis for Temple, or a letdown for SMU. It was also a really bad loss where the Mustangs' NCAA tournament hopes are concerned. For one thing, Temple's RPI is down in the 200-ish range. For another, it cements the notion that SMU -- which played a bad nonconference schedule and hasn't beaten a good team on the road all season -- can't replicate the high-level stuff it does on its own floor elsewhere in the country. The Mustangs' profile is still much better than most of the bubble teams you'll see in the next few weeks, but the schedule/road knocks are key selection committee pet peeves to be avoided at all costs.