The View from Row 30, Riser Section 30 of Ford Field
kj on Mar 31st 2008
So I figured out why they had to raise the floor three feet in order to put the basketball floor in the center of Ford Field . . .
. . . because if they hadn’t, I would have been watching 10 floating heads bob around the court for two hours yesterday. This photo was [...]
State of the Blog Address: End-of-Season Edition
kj on Mar 31st 2008
It’s been four months and eight days since this blog sprung into being. During that time:
I’ve put up 176 posts (1.26 per day on a tempo-free basis!)
You’ve left 656 comments
There’ve been over 34,000 hits on the blog
Readership has increased steadily throughout the season–beyond what I could have reasonably expected going into this.
Cannot . . [...]
Bracket Contest Update
kj on Mar 31st 2008
Courtesy of Dan:
TMadison25 146, 2 teams left (UCLA, UNC)
Kurt 139, 1 (UCLA)
Devin 138, 3 (all but UNC)
Dr Huxtable 135, 2 (Kansas, UCLA)
kj 125, 1 (Kansas)
spartanproducer 124, 2 (UCLA, UNC)
GBBound 112, 3 (all but Memphis)
Dave 105, 2 (UCLA, UNC)
wifeofaspartan 96, 4
Dan 96, 2 (UCLA, UNC)
Erik J 95, 4
Hoopraker 93, 4
NorthernSparty 75, 0
The three people with all [...]
Wildcat for a day
kj on Mar 29th 2008
What’s say, we talk about some college basketball teams not hailing from East Lansing today . . .
Big Ten Roundup
Tony Bennett to Bloomington? That’d be a fine move for Indiana based on what I know about Bennett. But, from a Spartan perspective, I’d rather see them go with a more up-tempo guy [...]
You know it’s a bad night . . .
kj on Mar 28th 2008
. . . when your team goes on a 17-0 run and the needle on the odds-of-winning-the-game meter barely budges from zero.
The stats for the full game don’t have a lot of meaning in a game like this one, so I’m not going to a do a full breakdown. It’s how the game started [...]
Pregame Reading
kj on Mar 28th 2008
Joe Rexrode has a great bunch of notes and observations about things in Houston up on his blog. As TMadison noted in the comments section, Gray’s toe has improved but he tweaked his knee in practice. Hopefully, he’s good to go to give us at least a few minutes, pull down some defensive [...]
Coffee Talk
kj on Mar 27th 2008
It’s time once again for America’s fastest-growing basketball blog sensation: Coffee Talk.
This week’s question is pretty straightforward: Now that we’ve dissected the Memphis Tiger basketball team every way I know how to, what do you think the keys are to a Spartan victory Friday night?
To spur discussion, here’s an excellent scouting report on the Tigers [...]