Michigan is a 5 seed in the NCAA Tournament, announced on Sunday evening within an hour of Michigan’s championship win over Wisconsin. Michigan will face 12 seed UC San Diego on Thursday in Denver. As for other top Big Ten teams, Michigan State is a 2 seed, Wisconsin is a 3, Maryland and Purdue are 4s, and Oregon is a 5.

A remarkable turnaround in Year 1 of Dusty May’s tenure led to Michigan putting an end to its two-year absence in March Madness with a Big Ten tournament title and making the 68-team field as the No. 5 seed in the South Region, where it will face No. 12 seed UC-San Diego on Thursday in Denver.

Wisconsin hit two more free throws to go up 11 but Will Tschetter finally stopped the bleeding with a three, and with 12:11 remaining in the game, it was 38-30, Badgers. Goldin got a layup just before the under-12 timeout and the deficit was six.