The Big Ten Conference is having a March Madness moment. In front of a rapturous United Center crowd on Friday, the Michigan Wolverines became the fourth Big Ten squad to advance to the Elite Eight thanks to a 90-77 victory against Alabama.
Illinois, Iowa and Purdue all also advanced. Michigan State almost joined the fray, too, although the Spartans ultimately fell to UConn, 67-63, later that night.
Michigan forward Yaxel Lendeborg may have improved his draft stock with another solid night, notching 23 points while shooting 8-of-12 from the floor and 3-of-4 from the foul line, plus 11 boards and seven dimes.
Guard Elliot Cadeau chipped in 17 points on 6-of-14 shooting from the field (3-of-8 from long range) and 2-of-5 shooting from the charity stripe, plus seven dimes, five boards, a steal and a block.
No. 1 seed Michigan will next square off against No. 6 seed Tennessee in the Midwest Region final Sunday afternoon.
Alonzo Adams-Imagn ImagesBulls Bullets — March 28, 2026
Although they kept things close for most of the first three quarters, our Bulls collapsed during a decisive 33-6 Oklahoma City Thunder run midway through the second half of a Friday road clash. With its 131-113 victory, Oklahoma City officially eliminated Chicago from postseason contention. The Bulls’ offense bogged down to mostly Tre Jones through this critical run. At one point, Jones was the only Chicago player to score across an 11-minute stretch. Reigning Oklahoma City MVP Shai Gilgeous Alexander had a rough shooting night, thanks in part to some solid swarming Bulls defense. He notched 25 points on just 8-of-24 shooting from the floor (0-of-10 from long range) and 9-of-12 shooting from the foul line. Ahead of the Thunder loss, Giddey reflected on the club’s cold, harsh reality, per The Chicago Tribune’s Julia Poe: the Bulls would likely undergo a major personnel change over the summer.“This team is obviously not going to be the same next year,” Giddey acknowledged. “We’re not going to have the same 15, 18 guys back. It’s just going to look different. It’s important that we finish this year the right way and then hopefully we can get some momentum going into the summer. I don’t want to start talking next year, we’ve still got (nine) games. But you want to finish this thing the right way, irrespective of the playoffs or play-in.”
Several Bulls players — Anfernee Simons, Collin Sexton, Nick Richards, Guerschon Yabusele, Jaden Ivey technically (he’s a restricted free agent), and Zach Collins — will hit free agency this summer. It doesn’t make much sense for a young Chicago squad to retain most of them. At 29-43 on the year, the surprisingly bad Milwaukee Bucks sport a record that’s just 0.5 games better than the 29-44 Bulls. They’ll likely be eliminated from play-in contention themselves pretty soon. Chicago may be hard-pressed to better the Bucks in Tankathon‘s reverse rankings. According to Joe Cowley of the Chicago Sun-Times, the Bulls have the third-easiest scheduling remaining across their final nine contests. Milwaukee, meanwhile, boasts the 10th-easiest schedule. Second-year Chicago forward Matas Buzelis’ impressive run of 15 consecutive games played with two or more made triples came to an end, notes KC Johnson of Chicago Sports Network. He wrapped up the night having gone just 1-of-7 from distance, but finished with a still-respectable 15 points and nine boards. In response to news of three truly bizarre NBA proposals to supposedly curb gratuitous tanking, the National Basketball Players’ Association pitched a counter. According to Jake Fischer of The Stein Line, the NBPA suggests a method that would incentivize victories through tiered national TV revenue-sharing; flatten lottery odds across a proposed 18 lottery teams (which would enable more teams to have a shot at a top pick, and thus would likely make more teams try to tank late into the year); and use strict penalties to deter tanking.BLEACHER NATION: Go Ad Free | Subscribe to the BN Newsletter
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