Last links of 2007
kj on Dec 31st 2007
Just did a quick check on bbstate.com ($): MSU’s 31 assists vs. UWGB are tied for the 7th best performance in college basketball this season. And all the teams ahead of or tied with them scored more points than MSU’s 93–so it was an amazing passing performance relative to scoring output.
Izzo video clip: “I want [...]
UW-Green Bay Game Post (12/29/07)
kj on Dec 28th 2007
4:00 Saturday. Breslin Center. The Phoenix of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Big Ten Network.
This game interrupts a 13-day period between the Texas game last Saturday and the first conference game vs. Minnesota a week from tomorrow. Eight of the 11 Big Ten teams start conference play next Wednesday/Thursday.
UW-Green Bay [...]
The next two weeks
kj on Dec 28th 2007
Due to various leisure-related activities, I’ll be posting game previews–but not game recaps–for the next three MSU games. I’ll put up a UW-Green Bay preview later tonight, but will then depart the blogosphere until next Tuesday or Wednesday. I’ll try to get a couple posts up late next week, including a conference preview of some [...]
Cross-sport statistical irony
kj on Dec 28th 2007
Just as the MSU basketball team seems to be turning the corner on holding on to the ball, the MSU football team takes a swan dive in the opposite direction. After turning the ball over only 13 times in 12 regular season games, the Spartans of the gridiron handed it over five times tonight in [...]
Two very encouraging graphs
kj on Dec 27th 2007
So we all remember how unbelievably bad our Spartans were at holding on to the ball last season. They gave the ball up on 26.0% of offensive possessions in conference play–worst among any major conference team in either 2006 or 2007. This deficiency was the one thing that held MSU back from being [...]
Post-holiday links
kj on Dec 27th 2007
Jay Bilas on MSU and Izzo:
Michigan State coach Tom Izzo loves to say that players play, but tough players win. Well, coaches coach, but prepared coaches win, too. While so many coaches do a great job of preparing their teams, it is futile to try to suggest that one guy is the best. But it [...]
A landmark link
kj on Dec 24th 2007
The MSNBC Beyond the Arc blog asserts that MSU has vindicated itself from the Grand Valley loss with the Texas win and is now a clear national title contender (along with UCLA and Texas, with whom MSU is now caught in an infinite transitive property-defying superiority loop).
I’ve broken my self-imposed holiday blogging moratorium to post this, [...]
