A couple months ago, KenPom added something called “defensive fingerprint” on each team page. Mr. Pomeroy’s explanation: Defensive Fingerprint attempts to objectively identify the style of a team’s defense. Inputs into the system are the departure from the D-1 norm of the following defensive characteristics… – assist percentage (triple weight, higher means a more likely [...]
Posts Tagged ‘tom izzo’
Breaking down the defense
Posted in stats analysis, tagged man-to-man defense, tom izzo, zone defense on April 14, 2009 | 8 Comments »
I [heart] Tom Izzo
Posted in links, tagged big ten, tom izzo on April 1, 2009 | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
An impressive list
Posted in commentary, tagged tom izzo on March 30, 2009 | 9 Comments »
SpartanDan did the follow-up work. Coaches who have made the Final Four with (at least) three different completely distinct rosters of active players: – John Wooden (UCLA ‘62, ‘67, ‘71, ‘75) – Dean Smith (UNC ‘67, ‘72, ‘77, ‘81, ‘91, ‘95) – Mike Krzyzewski* (Duke ‘86, ‘90, ‘94, ‘99, ‘04) – Denny Crum (Louisville ‘72, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Mount Rushmore Poll Results
Posted in poll, tagged biggie munn, duffy daugherty, magic johnson, tom izzo on February 20, 2009 | Comments Off
Here are the top finishers from the poll, with the rough percentage of ballots each person appeared on: Magic Johnson: 84% Tom Izzo: 80% Duffy Daugherty: 48% Biggie Munn: 28% Mateen Cleaves: 28% Kirk Gibson: 20% Ron Mason: 20% Bubba Smith: 20% John Hannah: 12% Jud Heathcote: 12% This was a fun, and informative, exercise. [...]
Coffee Talk: MSU's Mount Rushmore
Posted in coffee talk, tagged brad vanpelt, duffy daugherty, magic johnson, msu basketball history, msu football history, tom izzo on February 19, 2009 | 36 Comments »
ESPN.com’s Adam Rittenberg has been doing a cool feature: naming the four historical figures who would fill a Mount Rushmore for each of the 11 Big Ten football programs. (Apparently, this is part of a wider ESPN “Sports Nation” thing.) He hasn’t gotten to MSU yet, so I thought we’d beat him to the punch [...]
Saturday Morning Links
Posted in links, tagged chris allen, russell byrd, tom izzo on January 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
MSU’s Izzo: Pick up the purpose 100 three-point makes for Chris Allen after every practice. For whatever reason, he’s never really looked like a Respert/Neitzel-like shooter to me in terms of consistency. Green Lenses Takes Izzo and the Pistons Under the Microscope Spartan Nation takes Tom Izzo to task for Wednesday’s loss. Agree they didn’t [...]
Thursday Night Links
Posted in links, tagged capital one bowl, tom izzo on December 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Look, I realize Izzo is god, but … for the record, MSU’s record isn’t totally impressive Hard to argue with some of these numbers. But also have to keep in mind Izzo is being judged against his own standards. Izzo: Spartans lacked leadership in win over The Citadel We’re adding “leadership” to “toughness” as the [...]
Tom Izzo: A Numerical Summary
Posted in commentary, tagged tom izzo on April 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »
14 seasons as head coach 14 .500-or-better Big Ten regular season finishes 12 NCAA Tournament appearances 12 first-team all-Big Ten player selections 10 20-win seasons 8 Sweet Sixteens 6 Elite Eights 5 Final Fours 5 Big Ten regular season championships 5 former assistants currently coaching Division 1 teams 4 Big Ten player-of-the-year selections 3 30-win [...]
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