Minnesota Game Recap MSU advances past Minnesota 64-56 in a 64-possession game. StatSheet box score. Having digested 5 full hours of basketball since the game ended (we bolted at halftime of the last game), all I can give you is a graph: NCAA Basketball Stats And some bullets: Disappointingly small rebounding advantage and a negative [...]
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Minnesota Game Recap/Ohio State Open Thread Combo Meal
Posted in game recap, open thread, tagged big ten tournament, chris allen, draymond green, marquise gray, minnesota, ohio state on March 13, 2009 | 53 Comments »
Coffee Talk: The Seniors
Posted in coffee talk, tagged goran suton, idong ibok, marquise gray, travis walton on March 5, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Sunday is Senior Day. Here’s your discussion question: What the first word that pops into your head when you hear the name of each of four seniors? My (alliterative) answers are below. Goran Suton Improvement. Suton’s key tempo-free numbers for the four years he was an active player: Stat 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 OffRtg 95.0 [...]
Illinois Game Recap (1/17/08)
Posted in game recap, tagged chris allen, illinois, marquise gray, morris peterson, travis walton on January 17, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Michigan State pushes past Illinois 63-57 in a 66-possession game. Statsheet box score. First things first: It was great to be there for the Morris Peterson jersey retirement ceremony. Nine years ago, my wife and I sat/stood in the second row of the student section and watched that man do amazing things en route to [...]
Minnesota Game Recap (12/31/08)
Posted in game recap, tagged kalin lucas, marquise gray, minnesota, raymar morgan on December 31, 2008 | 8 Comments »
The Spartans grind out a 70-58 victory against the Gophers in a 61-possession game. Unofficial box score. MSU’s performance today deserves that oft-used moniker of “workmanlike.” Outside of a brief Gopher spurt to close MSU’s lead to one point going into halftime, the Spartans played with intensity for 40 minutes, slowly building a lead that [...]
MSU at the Old Spice Classic: A Statistical Review
Posted in stats analysis, tagged austin thornton, chris allen, delvon roe, draymond green, durrell summers, kalin lucas, korie lucious, marquise gray, old spice classic, raymar morgan, travis walton on December 1, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Going into this weekend, I said a 2-1 record in the Old Spice Classic would be a “solid outcome.” But that was contingent on winning the opening game against Maryland–which we didn’t. Nevertheless, I don’t think we should get too despondent about MSU’s Old Spice Classic results (although yours truly was pretty despondent late Thursday [...]
Oklahoma State Game Recap (11/28/08)
Posted in game recap, tagged kalin lucas, marquise gray, oklahoma state, old spice classic, raymar morgan, travis walton on November 29, 2008 | 8 Comments »
The Spartans run by the Cowboys 94-79 in a 76-possession game. Official box score. Well, MSU certainly got that up-tempo thing to work last night. I listened to the game on the radio, and the play-by-play call by Will Tieman was pretty frantic. Oklahoma State apparently insisted on pressing MSU, to not much success. MSU turned it over [...]
Maryland Game Recap (11/27/08)
Posted in game recap, tagged chris allen, marquise gray, maryland, old spice classic, raymar morgan, travis walton on November 27, 2008 | 11 Comments »
MSU falls hard to Maryland, 80-62, in roughly a 66-possession game. Unofficial box score. Angst-ridden bullets: I once called Goran Suton “MSU’s most indispensable player.” I’m disappointed to now have a data point that backs up that claim. Raymar Morgan’s proclivity to pick up cheap fouls is apparently a chronic problem. Which gives me a sense of [...]
Idaho Game Recap (11/16/08): Delvon's Debut
Posted in game recap, tagged austin thornton, delvon roe, idaho, isaiah dahlman, marquise gray on November 16, 2008 | 9 Comments »
The Spartans vandalize the Vandals 100-62 in a 70 69-possession game (seemed faster than that, didn’t it?). In a game with plenty of scoring by the good guys, let’s start by talking about a player who didn’t make a single field goal: Delvon Roe must have had the most impressive one-point debut by a freshman [...]
LSSU Game Recap (11/10/08)
Posted in game recap, tagged korie lucious, Lake Superior State, marquise gray, raymar morgan, travis walton on November 10, 2008 | 4 Comments »
MSU romps again, winning 112-69 in roughly an 85-possession game. (I predict our record will be very good in game of 80 possessions or more.) I tried to follow the on-line video stream, but, like most viewers, only saw pieces of the game. (Note to the BTN front office: You’re not doing yourselves any favors [...]
More Media Day Notes
Posted in links, tagged delvon roe, goran suton, isaiah dahlman, kalin lucas, marquise gray, morris peterson, uniforms on October 16, 2008 | 5 Comments »
MSU has to get to Ford Field (in April) to keep the every-Izzo-player’s-been-to-a-Final-Four streak alive. Kalin Lucas: “I feel this is my team now,” Lucas said. “Last year it was more of me coming in as the new guy. I know what I’m talking about now. “We want to run more this season, our main [...]
