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One of the standard lines in season previews of this year’s Michigan State basketball team is that, in the wake of Drew Neitzel’s graduation, Raymar Morgan has to step up as MSU’s go-to scorer.  And that’s a reasonable statement.  Morgan is an extremely talented player who (1) goes into just about every college basketball game [...]

Thanks to all of you who took the time to share about your best day as a Spartan.  It was a fun way to learn a little bit more about each other.
Now we get down to brass tacks.  There’s a data-saturated tome at stake.
Mrs. Spartans Weblog has dutifully made her selections as to the best [...]

The Big Ten Geeks have part 1 of their interview with John Gasaway up.  Assists are adverbial!
Tom Izzo says the team is looking “tougher” than he expected through the first three practices!  Kalin Lucas is practicing at both the point and 2-guard.  Delvon Roe is participating in full contact drills, but is being held out [...]

Good Omen: A member of a 2-5 Michigan team basically guaranteeing victory on Saturday.
Bad Omen: Some sort or kerfuffle on campus apparently involving MSU football players.

Per Jerry Tipton of the Lexington Herald, Russell Byrd will choose between Kentucky, Michigan State, and Michigan on Friday:
“He felt he had enough information,” Kelly Byrd said about his son. “He’d seen enough, heard enough. He wanted to take this week to pray and discuss this with his mother and father.”
Is this a good sign [...]

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I decided to bump my comments on the new uniforms from the Midnight Madness Flickr slide show.  Because analyzing the details of basketball uniforms is just the kind of hard-hitting analysis [...]

In retrospect, we were sandbagged.
We were told we could play toe to toe with the preseason conference favorite because quarterback play was holding back their offense.  Of course, the quarterback in question was the most heavily recruited freshman college quarterback to come along in this century.  And he showed us why.  When Terrell Pryor is [...]