Wednesday Night Links Game 25: Michigan State at Michigan Post Game Dylan on last night’s game. Points out that the series of fairly random events that ended the first half was a pretty big key to the MSU win. Two Winners in Michigan Hoopraker. Not sure our Wolverine friends will agree. Better days at Crisler [...]
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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 [...]
Penn State Game Recap (2/1/09)
Posted in game recap, tagged kalin lucas, penn state on February 1, 2009 | 16 Comments »
The Nittany Lions bomb the Spartans into submission 72-68 in a 62-possession game. StatSheet box score. Before we get to the insanity-inducing angst part, let’s start with a couple graphical aids. First, the four factors graph: Stats by StatSheet.com The Spartans did what they always do–outrebound the other team–and they did what they don’t usually [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Northwestern Game Recap (1/21/09)
Posted in game recap, tagged chris allen, goran suton, kalin lucas, northwestern on January 21, 2009 | 10 Comments »
The Wildcats stun the Spartans 70-63 in a 63-possession game. StatSheet box score. The Spartan fan half of my brain is pretty mad about this one. We lost to Northwestern, of all teams, to end a 28-game home court winning streak and ruin a perfect conference record. And we did it by completely losing our [...]
Rankings Update
Posted in links, rankings update, tagged dion sims, kalin lucas, morris peterson on January 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Rankings Upate AP: #7 Coaches: #10 Sagarin: #10 Kenpom: #23 RPI: #4 Bracketology: #3 seed The RPI is really digging us at this point. I assume that’s a function of (1) nine of our fifteen opponents having double digit wins and (2) only six of the 15 games having been played at home. That win [...]
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 [...]
