Big Ten Roundup plus . . . Why It’s OK to Really, Really Like Basketball
kj on Apr 14th 2008
In case you’re getting tired of staring at boxes of numbers . . .
I missed this last week: Devin, the winner of our nontraditional bracket contest, is also the proprietor of College Basketball Chronotope, an IU basketball blog. To reward him for his prognosticating acumen (unlike traditional pools, picking all four #1 seeds didn’t [...]
Season Review: Raymar Morgan Edition
kj on Apr 12th 2008
After a freshman season in which he quickly emerged as MSU’s second most effective offensive option, Raymar Morgan came into the 2007-08 season with high expectations. This blogger went so far as to predict he’d be a first-team all-Big Ten pick and declare him a candidate for conference player of the year. As [...]
Season Review: Point Guard Edition
kj on Apr 9th 2008
First, a final rankings update:
The final coaches’ poll puts us at 13th, up from 20th in the pre-tournament poll. (I don’t think the AP does a post-tournament poll.) The voters probably weight tournament performance a bit too heavily. Despite making the Sweet Sixteen, Wisconsin dropped from #5 to #10, implying their regular season performance was [...]
Final Bracket Contest Standings
kj on Apr 8th 2008
Courtesy of Dan (thanks again, sir):
Devin 156
Dr Huxtable 147
TMadison25 146
Kurt 139
kj 137
GBBound 124
spartanproducer 124
wifeofaspartan 114
Erik J 113
Hoopraker 111
Dave 105
Dan 96
NorthernSparty 75
For those interested, teams worth the most points this year:
Davidson 30
WKU, Villanova 24
Kansas 21
Memphis 15
West Virginia 14
Siena, San Diego 13
Kansas State 11
Michigan State 10
UCLA, UNC, Louisville, Xavier, Texas A&M, Arkansas 9
Maximum points possible: [...]
Championship Day Musings
kj on Apr 7th 2008
Rich Bozich of the Louisville Courier-Journal conducted a survey of 30 members of the college basketball media on this question: “If you were buying stock in 10 college basketball programs, which 10 would you buy, and in what order?” (Hat tip: Inside the Hall.) MSU just missed the top 10, landing as the top [...]
Living in the past
kj on Apr 5th 2008
Final Four weekend is upon us. And we Spartans have nothing to do but root against Memphis (or do we suck it up and root for them so we can at least say we lost to the national champions?). So let’s take a trip down memory lane.
One Shining Moment:
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Nonembeddable highlights of the 2000 [...]
2007-08 Season in Review
kj on Apr 3rd 2008
Note: We’ll focus mainly on overall team performance today. I hope to do season recaps for all the key returning players over the next few weeks.
Michigan State finishes the year with a record of 27-9. This record can be broken down a couple different ways:
Home: 17-0
Away: 4-6
Neutral: 6-3
Nonconference: 12-1
Conference: 12-6
Postseason: 3-2
Most of those [...]
