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Manny Harris has got moxie: “I hear a lot of stories about the Izzone and how crazy it is, but I just look at it as an opportunity and fun.  We haven’t really had a chance to shut a student section up at the end of a game, but we have a perfect opportunity to [...]

1:00 Sunday.  The Breslin Center.  CBS.  The only meeting between MSU and Michigan this season (barring a conference tournament match-up).
Before we get to the game preview, here’s some Chicken Soup for the Spartan’s Soul:

MSU has beaten Michigan in 14 of their last 17 meetings.
MSU has won the last 9 games played against Michigan in East [...]

The Spartans take care of business against the Wildcats, winning 78-62. Box score here.
Northwestern did a pretty good job of trying to directly attack the Spartans Weblog key to the game. They hit 11 3-pointers in 28 attempts for a healthy .393 shooting percentage. Craig Moore led the way with 7-14 3-point shooting, including a [...]

9:00 Thursday.  Evanston.  ESPN2.  Northwestern comes in winless (0-5) in conference play.
The Michigan State and Northwestern tempo-free profiles are a study in contrasts:
MSU leads the nation in offensive rebounding %.  Northwestern is dead last (341st) in the nation in offensive rebounding % and ranks in the bottom 20 in defensive rebounding %.
MSU turns the ball [...]

Our friends from Ann Arbor did everything they could to do us a solid (as the kids say), nearly upsetting Wisconsin in Madison.  They fell just short, losing 64-61.
The Wolverines played with an intensity rarely seen from the Maize and Blue in recent years–particularly on the boards.  They pulled down 19 offensive rebounds in 33 [...]

Be sure to check out bterp’s rundown of the Minnesota game.  Bterp is, in ascending order of importance, the following:
3) The Official Brother of the Brother-in-Law of the Spartans Weblog.
2) A DirecTV subscriber–so he actually, you know, watches all the games.
1) Someone who knows something about playing basketball–as opposed to someone who knows how to perform [...]

During his first two seasons on the court as a Spartan, Goran Suton’s play was often a source of great consternation for MSU fans. He’d show glimpses of great basketball skill on one possession but then make a boneheaded error on the next. My summation of his play was, “At any given moment, [...]