Don’t mess with the Big Ten: If you’re a great defensive team, you aren’t going to score as many points just because you don’t have as many possessions, because it’s going to take– if you’re a great defensive team and a great offensive team, you still only get so many shots, you’re only going to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘big ten’
I [heart] Tom Izzo
Posted in links, tagged big ten, tom izzo on April 1, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Allow me to say . . .
Posted in links, tagged big ten, ncaa tournament on March 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Amen. Unfortunately, I’m going to guess Digger Phelps will be taking a different methodological approach.
Indiana Game Preview
Posted in commentary, game preview, rankings update, tagged big ten, indiana, tom izzo on March 2, 2009 | 15 Comments »
Rankings Update AP: #8 (up from #9) Coaches: #8 (up from #9) Blogpoll: #8 (up from #9) Sagarin: #6 (up from #7) Kenpom: #12 (steady from last week) RPI: #4 (up from #5) Bracketology: #2 seed (up from #3 seed) Crashing the Dance: #2 seed (steady from last week) Question (that I do not know [...]
Monday Night Musings: Conference-Midseason-Review Edition
Posted in links, rankings update, stats analysis, tagged big ten, goran suton, jajuan johnson, kalin lucas, lawrence westbrook, talor battle on February 2, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Rankings Update AP: #13 (down from #9) Coaches: #14 (down from #9) Sagarin: #11 (down from #8) Kenpom: #21 (steady from last week) RPI: #5 (steady from last week) Bracketology: #3 seed (down from #3 seed) Crashing the Dance: #3 seed Purdue is ranked one spot ahead of us in both the human polls, reflecting [...]
Catching Up
Posted in game recap, links, site news, tagged big ten, idong ibok, kalin lucas, kansas, travis walton on January 11, 2009 | 13 Comments »
MSU-Kansas Thoughts To pay my blogging penance, I watched the full game on videotape this afternoon. Here’s the rest of the game recap: Perhaps the most encouraging aspect of the current nine-game winning streak is how everyone in the playing rotation seems to be finding their respective roles. Eleven players played significant minutes yesterday, and [...]
Coffee Talk: Jumping-the-Gun-on-the-Big-Ten-Race Edition
Posted in coffee talk, tagged big ten on January 7, 2009 | 18 Comments »
You’ve probably all read by now that the last time MSU started a conference season 3-0 we not only won the Big Ten championship, we also went on to win the national championship. It’s far too premature to talk about the latter, but let’s go ahead and talk about the former. With Purdue’s loss in [...]
Northwestern Game Preview
Posted in game preview, site news, stats analysis, tagged big ten, northwestern, schedule on January 2, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Site News The toils of blogging once again having worn me down physically, mentally, and spiritually, I am retreating to warmer climates tomorrow for a seven-day stay. I do plan to blog more regularly while on vacation than I have in the past, but content intensity will likely be down through next Saturday. The Conference [...]
The Spartans would like to thank the Academy
Posted in commentary, tagged big ten, kalin lucas, tom izzo on March 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
OK, it’s already “later tonight” and the all-Big Ten selections have been released. Your Spartan awardees: Kalin Lucas was selected as the conference Player of the Year–and a first-team all-conference pick–by both the coaches and the media. Chalk up another rock-solid preseason prediction for the all-knowing, all-seeing Spartans Weblog. (You’ll recall that Lucas didn’t even [...]
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