Saturday Morning Links MSU-Penn State Tickets Available For Sunday Just upper bench seats left at this point. Game 22: Michigan at Purdue Preview 1:00 today on CBS. MSU might have best recruiting class in state I like the sound of that. Michigan State’s In-State Recruiting Domination: What It Means For The Big 10 The Rivalry, [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Penn State Game Preview
Posted in game preview, links, tagged penn state on January 31, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Travis Walton by the Numbers
Posted in stats analysis, tagged travis walton on January 30, 2009 | 9 Comments »
I’ve been meaning to do a post on Travis Walton’s defense for a while. Joe Rexrode’s excellent blog entry on Walton finally pushed me to do it. Here’s (some of) what Rexrode had to say: And Travis Walton, once again, turned it. If you’ve watched Iowa much this year, you know that Jake Kelly’s playmaking [...]
Iowa Game Recap (1/29/09)
Posted in game recap, tagged durrell summers, iowa, kalin lucas on January 29, 2009 | 10 Comments »
MSU beats down Iowa 71-56 in a 62-possession game (a regular track meet by Hawkeye standards). StatSheet box score. This one played out according to plan–MSU’s plan, that is. We dominated on the boards (although that edge faded some in the second half), forced Iowa to take a lot of tough 3-point shots (8/26=30.8%), and [...]
MSU-Iowa Open Thread
Posted in open thread, site news on January 29, 2009 | 93 Comments »
I’ve made a couple minor site upgrades: Added an Archives page, with collapsible listsings of posts by month. Added user-enabled editing of comments. You now have five minutes after you make a comment to go back and edit it. This is intended for those obvious typos/errors you notice immediately after you click “Submit Comment.” OK, [...]
Pregame Reading
Posted in links, tagged tickets on January 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Iowa men’s basketball: Bum ankle rules Tate out against Spartans Definitely an uphill fight for the Hawkeyes on the boards tonight. Iowa Hawkeyes basketball: Shared-scoring league leaders host Spartans Excellent use of the word “plethora.” #24 Minnesota vs. #20 Illinois: Gophers hope to end “Krushing” streak like its 1999. Tonight’s 9:00 game. Tubby Smith says [...]
Iowa Game Preview
Posted in game preview, tagged iowa on January 28, 2009 | 7 Comments »
7:00 Thursday. Carver-Hawkeye Arena, Iowa City. ESPN. Iowa enters this game with a conference record of 2-5. The two victories were both at home: a 5-point win over Indiana and an overtime win over Wisconsin. They have played a couple good teams close on the road, though: Ohio State (3 points) and Penn State (4 [...]
Tuesday Night Links
Posted in links, tagged ed hightower on January 27, 2009 | 17 Comments »
MSU’s Morgan hampered by illness The virus that won’t die. Did (N)U Know? Lake the Posts: “The last time Michigan State lost to both North Carolina and Northwestern in the same season the Spartans won the national championship.” Taking Time Out Mark Titus on MSU’s roster of unusual first names (among other things). Tale of [...]
Monday Night Musings: Four Factors Edition
Posted in links, rankings update, stats analysis on January 26, 2009 | 19 Comments »
Rankings Update AP: #9 (down from #7) Coaches: #9 (down from #7) Sagarin: #8 (steady from last week) Kenpom: #21 (down from #18) RPI: #5 (down from#3) Bracketology: #2 seed (steady from last week) That loss to Northwestern didn’t hurt too much in any of the rankings. In the human polls, four teams (Syracuse, Clemson, [...]
Ohio State Game Recap (1/25/09)
Posted in game recap, tagged durrell summers, goran suton, kalin lucas, ohio state on January 25, 2009 | 10 Comments »
MSU accelerates past Ohio State 78-67 in a 60-possession game. Statsheet box score. This was, of course, a tale of two halves. The tale of the first half was Durrell Summers single-handedly keeping the team afloat, scoring 16 of the team’s 26 points as the rest of the team struggled with turnovers and 3-point shooting [...]
Now we are so happy . . .
Posted in goofy video on January 25, 2009 | 9 Comments »
. . . we do the Dance of Joy. Bounceback win + 4-0 conference road record + Durrell Summers + 19-point second half scoring margin = Youtube dancing. Game recap later tonight
