The Spartans battle past the Wolverines 54-42 in a 55-possession game. StatSheet box score. This is not the bar graph we were expecting: Stats by StatSheet.com They turned the ball over more than we did. And we barely outrebounded them. In the end, it came down to creating scoring opportunities. We converted 2 more field [...]
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Michigan Game Recap (2/10/09)
Posted in game recap, tagged delvon roe, draymond green, travis walton, wolverines on February 11, 2009 | 19 Comments »
MSU-Michigan Open Thread
Posted in open thread, tagged wolverines on February 10, 2009 | 50 Comments »
I want YOU to make good use of the open thread. My finely-honed blogger instincts tell me tonight’s game has more potential for emotion/disagreement in the open thread than has existed for previous games. Since I won’t be around to supervise, I would ask everyone involved to abide by two simple rules: 1. No profanity. [...]
Michigan Game Preview: Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Edition
Posted in coffee talk, game preview, tagged wolverines on February 9, 2009 | 24 Comments »
7:00 Tuesday. Crisler Arena. ESPN. A lot of ground has all ready been covered in the Q&As posted here and on Dylan’s site. So I am going to take a different approach to this game preview. And by “different,” I mean “less time/effort-intensive on my part.” I’ve posted the tempo-free data for the two teams [...]
Blogging with the Enemy
Posted in interview, tagged wolverines on February 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I don’t usually do round tables or Q&As with other bloggers due to the extra time involved. But regular readers know that Dylan of UMHoops and I have a special relationship, akin to that between the U.S. and Great Britain. That is, despite a long, and often hostile, relationship between our respective sides, we’ve formed [...]
Wolverines Down Devils
Posted in news, tagged wolverines on December 6, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Michigan upset #4 Duke 81-73 in a 70-possession game this afternoon. Watching the Wolverines play with confidence and composure against a top ten team for 40 minutes was, I have to say, a bit of a surreal experience. This is a landmark game in the John Beilein era. I’d say more, but UMHoops has got [...]
Upset at the Garden
Posted in news, tagged wolverines on November 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Michigan pulled off the first upset of a highly-ranked team this season, knocking off #4 UCLA 55-52 last night at Madison Square Garden. I went to bed at halftime, but from what I saw, the 1-3-1 zone looks a lot more effective this year. The box score confirms this, as Michigan forced UCLA into turning [...]
RichRod: Let's Focus on the Economy
Posted in snark, tagged rich rodriguez, wolverines on November 18, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Even I can resist a snarky, football-related post after reading this: “It’s amazing some of the things that people would say [on a message board] or yell at you of a personal nature,” [Rich] Rodriguez said Monday. “You almost want to tell them, ‘Get a life.’ “There’s a whole lot bigger problems. Look at the [...]
Hooray for Hoyer
Posted in game recap, tagged brian hoyer, football, wolverines on October 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Me, last night: One set of numbers we haven’t talked about are the career statistics of our senior quarterback: 57.1% completion percentage, 7.0 yards per pass attempt, 32-18 TD-Int ratio. If Brian Hoyer can just revert to the mean for one game, it will be a good day for the Green and White tomorrow. Well, [...]
Special in-state-rivalry edition football game preview
Posted in game preview, tagged football, wolverines on October 23, 2008 | 11 Comments »
And by “game preview,” I mean “a bunch of graphs interspersed with random observations and questions of an unanswerable nature.” Data presented below are from here and here. Big Picture Reasons I Am Fairly Optimistic About Saturday’s Game With one spectacular except, MSU has simply been a much better team than Michigan this season. The [...]
Why I hate "scUM"
Posted in commentary, tagged wolverines on October 16, 2008 | 19 Comments »
It’s customary in cyberspace for MSU fans to refer to the University of Michigan as “scUM.” I find this bothersome. Reasons: It’s grating on the eyes to encounter a word in the middle of a sentence that looks like something someone accidentally typed when they rested their elbow on the keyboard. It’s uncreative. As uncreative [...]
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