Weekend Round-Up: By All Means, Let's Only Talk About Basketball 3/5/2018)

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A roundup of the things that happened while king of excuses Tom Izzo ran out of them.

• ESPN's John Gasaway gives us The 343 teams that will not win the national championship and Michigan is one of them.  Wojo disagrees.
• A recap of the tourney from CBS Michigan wins Big Ten tournament: Wolverines at it again with 2nd straight title covers all the bases and has the rights to all the videos you want to see
• MgoBlog says what you wish you had the ability to (like RBUAS used to):  Snips, Fingernails, And Spartan Dawg Trails
• All bullshit aside, barring some kind of real craziness, Michigan is going to be a Top-10 team going in to the NCAA Tournament.   DetNews: UM vaults to No. 7 in AP poll; MSU drops to No. 4
• And an SBNation-heavy look at what we did to 4 fanbases:
  • Black Heart, Gold Pants: Michigan 77, Iowa 71: End of the Line
  • Corn Nation: Michigan Stomps Nebraska Basketball In Soul-Crushing 77-58 Loss
  • The Only Colors: Roundball recap: MSU basketball ousted from Big Ten Tournament
  • Hammer and Rails: Big Ten Tournament 2018: Purdue 66, Michigan 75