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On a trip
January 15, 2009 by
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Black Shoe Diaries:
With 27 seconds to go the Nittany Lions found themselves just down by two with the ball and the #7 team in the country leaning on the ropes. Talor Battle surveyed the defense and thought he saw an opening. He tried to split between two defenders. Goran Suton stuck...
Penn State Game Recap (1/14/09)
January 14, 2009 by
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Michigan State escapes Happy Valley with a 5-point win: 78-73 in a 65-possession game.? Statsheet box score. (Note: I just realized the Statsheet box scores have an ?Advanced Player Stats? tab with individual tempo-free numbers.? Wicked awesome.)
That was a very unpleasant 10 minutes...
Dion Sims is a Spartan
January 13, 2009 by
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This is technically a football commitment ($?), which I don’t typically cover. But Dion Sims clearly wants to be a Division 1 college basketball player:
In the end, the difference was the joint effort of Coaches Dantonio and Izzo, and their willingness to work with the Sims family...
Rankings Update
January 12, 2009 by
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Rankings Upate
AP: #7
Coaches: #10
Sagarin: #10
Kenpom: #23
RPI: #4
Bracketology: #3 seed
The RPI is really digging us at this point.
Catching Up
January 11, 2009 by
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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...
Kansas Game Recap (1/10/09)
January 11, 2009 by
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MSU charges by Kansas 75-62 in a 70-possession game.
It
Thursday Links
January 08, 2009 by
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MSU likely to delay Peterson jersey ceremony
Another day.
The Nation
Coffee Talk: Jumping-the-Gun-on-the-Big-Ten-Race Edition
January 07, 2009 by
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You?ve probably all read by now that the last time MSU started a conference season 3-0 we not only won the Big Ten championship, we also went on to win the national championship.? It?s far too premature to talk about the latter, but let?s go ahead and talk about the former.
With Purdue...
Ohio State Game Recap (1/8/09)
January 06, 2009 by
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The Spartans knock off the Buckeyes 67-58 in a 60-possession game.? Official box score.
Events conspired against me tonight.? I thought I had access to ESPN2, but apparently when you get ESPN and ESPN2 in the Bahamas, you really only get ESPN, as both channels were showing the ESPN...
Northwestern Game Preview
January 02, 2009 by
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The toils of blogging once again having worn me down physically, mentally, and spiritually, I am retreating to warmer climates tomorrow for a seven-day stay.
Wrapping up the football season
January 01, 2009 by
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Well, I certainly didn
Minnesota Game Preview
December 30, 2008 by
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A Terrific Tip-Off
You couldn
Delvon Roe Update: Ankle Edition
December 29, 2008 by
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I had really hoped we were done with the Delvon Roe injury updates . . .
The LSJ is reporting (via Joe Rexrode
Monday Night Rankings Update
December 29, 2008 by
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Rankings Update
Well, look at that: We’re a top-ten team again. According to the writers, at least. The coaches have us at #15. The bad news is that I’m not convinced we really are a top-ten team at this point. The good news is that the 9-2 nonconference mark (with the...
Coffee Talk: What’s that? Another football game?
December 28, 2008 by
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It’s now been 36 days since the Michigan State football team last played a game. Since then:
The MSU basketball team has played nine games.
The Detroit Lions have played (and lost) six games.
Barack Obama has announced 25 cabinet-level appointees and key advisors.
Over two feet...
Oakland Game Recap (12/27/08)
December 28, 2008 by
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The Spartans knock out the Grizzlies 82-66 in a 65-possession game.
Oakland Game Preview
December 26, 2008 by
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5:00 Saturday. The Palace of Auburn Hills. Fox Sports Detroit.
Oakland enters this game with a record of 8-6, including a 1-1 mark in Summit League play. The Grizzlies’ best win was a 82-79 overtime win over Oregon in the second game of the season. Last Saturday, they lost...
“No member of the University community should experience this kind of injury.”
December 23, 2008 by
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This is not the kind of story I tend to follow (sports are supposed to be an escape from reality), so I don’t know all of the details/speculation. That being the case, can someone explain to me why Glenn Winston is still on the MSU football team? And I’m not going to buy the “innocent [...]
Monday Night Musings: How long can we push the tempo?
December 22, 2008 by
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Monday Night Links
How to Think About the (Not So) New Three-Point Line
TAFKATBTW has a second cyber-residence.
Big 10 Efficiency Rankings of 2008, Courtesy of Football Outsiders
FO?s numbers say the MSU football team was, wait for it, a more efficiency passing team than running...
Is “Pre-Conference Season All-Conference Team” an oxymoron?
December 21, 2008 by
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Even if it is, I love compiling all-Big Ten teams. This is mostly stats-based as I haven’t seen a lot of Big Ten games outside of MSU’s games to date. I’ve included scoring average plus a few tempo-free goodies for each player.
Pre-Conference Season All-Big Ten Team
Taylor...
Texas Game Preview
December 18, 2008 by
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2:00 Saturday. The Toyota Center, Houston, Texas. CBS.
Texas enters this game ranked #5 in the country with a record of 9-1. Their only loss was a one-point defeat at the hands of #12 Notre Dame in Hawaii. They have two wins against ranked opponents: #14 UCLA and #18 Villanova...
The Citadel Game Recap (12/17/08)
December 17, 2008 by
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Michigan State knocks off The Citadel 79-65 in a 66-possession game.
Monday Night Links: The Return of Goran Draws Nigh
December 15, 2008 by
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Rankings Update
MSU slid a bit to #19/22 in the polls.? Apparently, the voters weren?t impressed by the 118 points against Alcorn State.
We?re up to #28 in the Sagarin ratings, but still down at #39 under the Kenpom version.
The Return of Goran Draws Nigh
Goran Suton practiced...
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