An internet presale has begun for tickets to the MSU-Oakland game at the Palace on Saturday, December 27 (5:00 tip-off). Prices start at $15 per ticket and, apparently, go all the way up to $250. Link to Ticketmaster website A password is required to participate in the presale. Super difficult riddle: What’s the mascot (in [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Tickets on sale for Michigan State-Oakland at the Palace
Posted in news, tagged tickets on September 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Michigan State-Notre Dame Links and Discussion Thread
Posted in football discussion, links, tagged football, javon ringer, notre dame on September 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A few links from opposition territory: A defense of the indefensible: Charlie Weis (guest post at Rivalry, Esq.). Michigan’s miscues against the Irish set to a whimsical musical score (The House Rock Built). Attempting to debunk the idea that Michigan handed the game to Notre Dame (Kelly Green). There’s not much in the way of [...]
Lacy Interviews Izzo
Posted in links, tagged tom izzo on September 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Eric Lacy, a top-notch reporter for the Detroit News, was somehow lucky enough to get transferred from the U-M beat to the MSU beat. He sat down for an in-depth interview with Tom Izzo this week. It’s a great read–illustrating all the things we love about Izzo: candor, energy, loyalty. Based on this teaser from [...]
Wednesday Links: Delvon Roe Edition
Posted in links, tagged delvon roe, kalin lucas, raymar morgan on September 17, 2008 | Comments Off
Eric Lacy has a couple encouraging updates on Delvon Roe: First, he remains on schedule to be ready for the start of the season; he participated in “basketball related activities” for the first time in nine months on Monday. Caveat: “If Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, God took off nine months, they aren’t going [...]
Complete details released for 2008-09 basketball schedule
Posted in news, site news, tagged jamil wilson, recruiting, roger franklin, schedule, tv on September 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Michigan State has now released all the details on start times and TV coverage for the 2008-2009 basketball schedule. Tidbits and nuggets: The two exhibition games will be broadcast at BigTenNetwork.com (as opposed to on the TV network itself). It appears the game at IPFW will be the only game not televised. The Oakland game [...]
One-Click Coffee Talk
Posted in poll, tagged football on September 15, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The Michigan State Ringers
Posted in football discussion, stats analysis, tagged football, javon ringer, notre dame on September 14, 2008 | 5 Comments »
In the early years of organized baseball, before team mascots became as formalized as they are today, teams would sometimes be referred to by the name (or nickname) of their star player. For example, the Cleveland “Naps” were named after future Hall-of-Famer Napoleon Lajoe. Based on the numbers below, perhaps the MSU football team should [...]
MSU student basketball tickets on sale
Posted in news, tagged tickets on September 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Anyone who’s (1) a reader of this blog and (2) an MSU student probably knows this already, but student basketball tickets for the upcoming basketball season are now on sale (subject to the various Izzone-related rules and regulations). Perhaps more newsworthy: the Kansas game on Saturday, January 10, is part of the 13-game student ticket [...]
Thursday Links and MSU-Florida Atlantic Discussion Thread
Posted in football discussion, links, tagged football, raymar morgan, russell byrd on September 11, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Basketball Links Russell Byrd is down to five schools: Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Michigan State, and Ohio State (subscriber-only link; article was free when I first accessed it, for whatever reason). Raymar Morgan is the #4 NBA prospect in the Big Ten (among non-freshmen). Harris, Turner, and Lighty are 1-3; Hummel is 5. (Hat tip: UMHoops). [...]
Putting it all together: Offensive efficiency during the Izzo era
Posted in stats analysis, tagged msu basketball history, offensive efficiency, tom izzo, turnovers on September 9, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Here’s a brief overview of what we’ve learned from our survey of MSU’s statistical trends on offense over the last 12 years, broken down by the “four factors” of tempo-free statistical analysis: Turnovers: Minimizing turnovers has never been a strength for MSU under Izzo. Three seasons were particularly bad (1997-97, 2001-02, and 2006-07), with the [...]
