The Timberwolves’ summer league team played its first game last night. Neitzel scored 10 points on 4-5 FG shooting (all 2-pointers), including 2-2 on 3-pointers, in 14 minutes. On the downside, he had zero assists and turned the ball over two times. Someone named Pooh Jeter, from St. Vincent College the University of Portland, was [...]
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Opening Night Quick Hits
Posted in basketball, big ten, links, msu on January 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Badgercentric has a rundown of Wisconsin’s 70-54 win in Ann Arbor. Freshman forward Jon Leuer led the Badgers with 25 points on 5-5 3-point shooting. Penn State beat Northwestern 79-68 in Evanston. Penn State pulled down 41 of 61 rebounding opportunities. The Wildcats’ rebounding woes continue. Indiana slipped by Iowa 79-76 in Iowa City. Eric [...]
Cross-sport statistical irony
Posted in football, msu on December 28, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Just as the MSU basketball team seems to be turning the corner on holding on to the ball, the MSU football team takes a swan dive in the opposite direction. After turning the ball over only 13 times in 12 regular season games, the Spartans of the gridiron handed it over five times tonight in [...]
Two very encouraging graphs
Posted in basketball, msu, stats analysis on December 27, 2007 | 4 Comments »
So we all remember how unbelievably bad our Spartans were at holding on to the ball last season. They gave the ball up on 26.0% of offensive possessions in conference play–worst among any major conference team in either 2006 or 2007. This deficiency was the one thing that held MSU back from being a truly [...]
Post-holiday links
Posted in basketball, big ten, links, msu on December 27, 2007 | Comments Off
Jay Bilas on MSU and Izzo: Michigan State coach Tom Izzo loves to say that players play, but tough players win. Well, coaches coach, but prepared coaches win, too. While so many coaches do a great job of preparing their teams, it is futile to try to suggest that one guy is the best. But [...]
A landmark link
Posted in basketball, links, msu on December 24, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The MSNBC Beyond the Arc blog asserts that MSU has vindicated itself from the Grand Valley loss with the Texas win and is now a clear national title contender (along with UCLA and Texas, with whom MSU is now caught in an infinite transitive property-defying superiority loop). I’ve broken my self-imposed holiday blogging moratorium to post [...]
Texas Game Recap (12/22/07)
Posted in basketball, game recap, msu on December 23, 2007 | 5 Comments »
MSU beats Texas 78-72 in a game that was not as close as the score would indicate. I just wrapped up watching the game on DVR (it’s midnight) so I’m going to go rapid-fire bullet-style on the recap. Box score here. I was surprised when I pulled up the box score and calculated this was [...]
Pregame Reading
Posted in basketball, big ten, links, msu on December 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
ESPN.com’s Andy Glockner points out Texas’ newfound offensive balance and maintained proficiency with Kevin Durant out of the equation, using tempo-free stats to make his case. Sound familiar? I’m told Burnt Orange Nation will have a game preview up later and it may include a reference to my game preview. So check that out later [...]
Texas Preview
Posted in basketball, game preview, msu on December 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
6:30 Saturday. The Palace of Auburn Hills. ESPN2. The Longhorns are undefeated at 10-0. They are ranked #4 in the AP poll and #5 in the coaches’ poll. Arguably, they should be ranked even higher, given that that they have two of the most impressive victories in all of college basketball this season–winning on the [...]
Thursday Night Links
Posted in basketball, links, msu on December 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Chris Allen is out for the Texas game: As Joe Rexrode notes, it would have been nice to have him back as Texas apparently plays a lot of zone. On the other hand, he’d probably be pretty rusty. Mr. Rexrode also has some scheduling morsels: MSU will play Texas the next three seasons. Kansas will [...]
