After a freshman season in which he quickly emerged as MSU’s second most effective offensive option, Raymar Morgan came into the 2007-08 season with high expectations. This blogger went so far as to predict he’d be a first-team all-Big Ten pick and declare him a candidate for conference player of the year. As it turned [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Season Review: Raymar Morgan Edition
Posted in michigan state basketball on April 12, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Season Review: Point Guard Edition
Posted in kalin lucas, michigan state basketball, travis walton on April 9, 2008 | 4 Comments »
First, a final rankings update: The final coaches’ poll puts us at 13th, up from 20th in the pre-tournament poll. (I don’t think the AP does a post-tournament poll.) The voters probably weight tournament performance a bit too heavily. Despite making the Sweet Sixteen, Wisconsin dropped from #5 to #10, implying their regular season performance [...]
Final Bracket Contest Standings
Posted in ncaa tournament contest on April 8, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Courtesy of Dan (thanks again, sir): Devin 156 Dr Huxtable 147 TMadison25 146 Kurt 139 kj 137 GBBound 124 spartanproducer 124 wifeofaspartan 114 Erik J 113 Hoopraker 111 Dave 105 Dan 96 NorthernSparty 75 For those interested, teams worth the most points this year: Davidson 30 WKU, Villanova 24 Kansas 21 Memphis 15 West Virginia [...]
Championship Day Musings
Posted in michigan state basketball on April 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Rich Bozich of the Louisville Courier-Journal conducted a survey of 30 members of the college basketball media on this question: “If you were buying stock in 10 college basketball programs, which 10 would you buy, and in what order?” (Hat tip: Inside the Hall.) MSU just missed the top 10, landing as the top team [...]
Living in the past
Posted in michigan state basketball on April 5, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Final Four weekend is upon us. And we Spartans have nothing to do but root against Memphis (or do we suck it up and root for them so we can at least say we lost to the national champions?). So let’s take a trip down memory lane. One Shining Moment: Nonembeddable highlights of the 2000 [...]
2007-08 Season in Review
Posted in michigan state basketball on April 3, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Note: We’ll focus mainly on overall team performance today. I hope to do season recaps for all the key returning players over the next few weeks. Michigan State finishes the year with a record of 27-9. This record can be broken down a couple different ways: Home: 17-0 Away: 4-6 Neutral: 6-3 Nonconference: 12-1 Conference: [...]
Is there room enough for two Toms in the Big Ten?
Posted in big ten, links, michigan state basketball on April 1, 2008 | 10 Comments »
As noted by Ben and TMadison in the previous comments section, reports indicate Tom Crean is the choice to become the new Indiana head coach. There are three obvious questions: Is this a good move by Crean? Paging Jim S isn’t sure this is a vertical move, as Crean is leaving an established program in [...]
