By demolishing Kansas and Florida over the weekend, Michigan silenced a growing chorus of skepticism about the Big Ten conference, which had been hailed all year as the toughest conference in college basketball, only to watch six of its seven teams in the tournament bow out ahead of Sunday's action, including Indiana, the top seed in the East.

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After a serious back injury in 2001, his bowling action had to be completely remodelled, and five years after taking his Test bow he still does not boast the statistics his billing merits.

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