Now that this blog is over a year old, we can establish traditions simply by doing exactly what we did the previous year. And, last year, I previewed the Big Ten conference season by producing a tempo-free aerial based on the 11 Big Ten teams’ nonconference efficiency ratings. To review: Offensive efficiency is points scored [...]
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Big Ten Conference Season Preview, Tempo-Free-Aerial-Style
Posted in stats analysis, tagged big ten on December 30, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Monday Night Rankings Update
Posted in links, rankings update, tagged big ten on December 29, 2008 | Comments Off
Rankings Update Well, look at that: We’re a top-ten team again. According to the writers, at least. The coaches have us at #15. The bad news is that I’m not convinced we really are a top-ten team at this point. The good news is that the 9-2 nonconference mark (with the Kansas game pending) is [...]
Monday Night Musings: How long can we push the tempo?
Posted in links, rankings update, stats analysis, tagged big ten, pace on December 22, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Monday Night Links How to Think About the (Not So) New Three-Point Line TAFKATBTW has a second cyber-residence. Big 10 Efficiency Rankings of 2008, Courtesy of Football Outsiders FO’s numbers say the MSU football team was, wait for it, a more efficiency passing team than running team this season. Unfortunately, that may say more about [...]
Thursday Night Links
Posted in links, tagged big ten, jamil wilson on December 4, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Thursday Night Links The 2008 Big Ten/ACC Challenge: Best Ever? No so much for us. SPARTANS DOWN, NOT OUT Travis Walton to Jeff Goodman: “Don’t worry. We’ll take care of you.” Kaizen: Making sense of a 35-point loss I link to anyone who calls me “insightful.” MSU makes Wisconsin star’s final four Marquette apparently still [...]
Wednesday links
Posted in links, tagged big ten, old spice classic on November 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Old Spice Classic preview is here. Wednesday links: Starting Spots, Deserved and Otherwise Maryland is in the same position we are at the moment: lots of depth at guard, question marks up front. Breaking Down the Old Spice Classic The Kennel Report is high on Gonzaga’s chances this weekend. Old Spice Classic features some of [...]
Monday Night Links
Posted in links, tagged big ten, mike respert, recruiting, russell byrd on October 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here’s a blow-by-blow account of the practice session for MSU media members held last week. Do you think they’d let a loyal Spartan blogger in next year? (I will now use this lame segueway to talk about my Breslin Center glories of days gone by: As a sophomore, I attended walk-on tryouts just for the [...]
Around the Big Ten (quickly)
Posted in links, tagged big ten, recruiting on September 23, 2008 | Comments Off
Nifty graph from the Big Ten Geeks: efficiency margin vs. percentage of returning minutes. The data indicate Purdue, MIchigan State, and Wisconsin are in good shape. Indiana, not so much. In two years, the talent level in the conference looks like it may jump a notch. UMHoops notes that 12 of the 38 top-150 recruits [...]
Thursday Quick Hits: Around the Big Ten
Posted in links, tagged big ten, garrick sherman on August 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
CBS Sportsline has a well-crafted round-up of offseason basketball events around the conference. A particularly apt analogy regarding the Hoosiers: Remember when the original Cleveland Browns skulked out of town to become the Baltimore Ravens, then a few years later the NFL granted Cleveland a brand-new franchise that retained the Browns’ name, colors and history? [...]
Give the guys in Bristol some credit
Posted in links, tagged big ten, football on August 10, 2008 | 7 Comments »
In the midst of ESPN.com’s non-step preseason college football coverage (led by their new Big Ten blogger, Adam Rittenberg), they’ve found the time to compile a quality preseason round-up for the 2008-09 Big Ten basketball season. Highlights: Michigan State is picked to finish second behind Purdue. MSU has the second highest returning scorer in the [...]
Is "Pre-Conference Season All-Conference Team" an oxymoron?
Posted in commentary, tagged all-conference team, big ten, deshaun sims, evan turner, manny harris, robbie hummel, taylor battle on December 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Even if it is, I love compiling all-Big Ten teams. This is mostly stats-based as I haven’t seen a lot of Big Ten games outside of MSU’s games to date. I’ve included scoring average plus a few tempo-free goodies for each player. Pre-Conference Season All-Big Ten Team Talor Battle (PSU): 19.4 pts/game, 42.9% 3pt%, 32.6% [...]
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