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MSU guts out their 15th conference win 62-51 in a 68-possession.  StatSheet box score. Raise your hand if you had us winning the conference by FOUR games: TEAM CONFERENCE OVERALL Michigan State 15-3 25-5 Illinois 11-7 23-8 Purdue 11-7 22-9 Ohio State 10-8 20-9 Penn State 10-8 21-10 Wisconsin 10-8 19-11 Minnesota 9-9 21-9 Michigan [...]

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MSU-Purdue Open Thread

Two Spartan warriors at the scene of their greatest triumph. Mrs. SW and I will be at the Breslin Center to wish Messrs. Walton, Gray, Ibok, and (especially) Suton farewell.  Enjoy the game and GO STATE!

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Purdue Game Preview

Noon Sunday.  The Breslin Center. CBS. I hope this won’t be interpreted as a lack of enthusiasm about Sunday’s game, but I’m going to have to phone this game preview in due to birthday-related festivities for the Official Oldest Son of the Spartans Weblog that commenced earlier this evening and will extent into tomorrow evening.  [...]

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Purdue Game Recap (2/17/09)

Purdue wallops MSU 72-54 in a 70-possession game.  StatSheet box score. After 3 of MSU’s 4 losses, I’ve downplayed the result.  I’m not going to downplay tonight’s loss.  MSU’s performance was extremely disappointing, both in terms of their lack of composure and their inability to take advantage of Purdue’s weaknesses.  The two sets of bars [...]

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MSU-Purdue Open Thread

Is he quicker than Lewis Jackson? Mid-week road game against out top rival for the conference championship.  I’m expecting record open-chat participation levels tonight, my friends. Pregame Reading Conference Check: All-You-Can-Eat Edition Based on efficiency margin, MSU has been as dominant in their conference as any team in any of the six BCS conferences.  (Update: [...]

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I’m back–like a bad rash. Rankings Update AP: #6 (up from #9) Coaches: #5 (up from #9) Blogpoll: #6 (up from #11) Sagarin: #7 (up from #8) Kenpom: #9 (up from #11) RPI: #6 (up from #7) Bracketology: #2 seed (steady from last week) Crashing the Dance: #2 seed (steady from last week) Crashing the [...]

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Not a lot to hang your hat on in terms of the MSU offense today.  Javon Ringer was contained for most of the day.  Brian Hoyer was erratic.  Brett Swenson was a nonfactor due to the weather.  And we managed to turn the ball over four times. But the defense was magnificent.  They took an [...]

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Basketball links first: Joe Rexrode shares his thoughts on the exhibition win vs. Northern. Likes Dahlman to be the #10 guy in the rotation and thinks Green may still redshirt. Luke Winn judges the Old Spice Classic to have the best field of the nearly 30 preseason college basketball tournaments. Inside the Hall pegs Raymar [...]

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To get a better sense how individual offensive ratings and usage percentages fit together, here are scatter plots for the top two teams in the Big Ten this past season.  Note that the vertical axis is recalibrated based on the approximate average team offensive efficiency figure for both teams (108.9 for Wisconsin; 105.0 for Purdue). [...]

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