The Cowboys wanted fresh meat. They got fresh meat.
A renaissance OSU basketball season has been marred only by repetitive losses to really good teams. The 20-12 Cowboys have lost seven times to Kansas, Iowa State and Baylor.
So just about any team that wasn't in Kansas City a few days ago would be fine with OSU. Then the NCAA selection committee put that theory to the test.
If your eyes were glued to CBS on Sunday afternoon — and that's an annual rite the second Sunday of March — you first saw Michigan take out Wisconsin 71-56 to win the Big Ten Tournament.