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 tournamentbow out ahead of Sunday's action, including Indiana, the top seed in the East.
Four years after being appointed, Johansson is in some ways starting from scratch - an unexpected way for the 57-year-old itinerant Swede to bow out, which he will do after the tournament.