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A statistical look at Michigan State basketball, with a dash of football talk

Archive for January, 2009

Monday Night Musings: Four Factors Edition

kj on Jan 26th 2009

Rankings Update

AP: #9 (down from #7)
Coaches: #9 (down from #7)
Sagarin: #8 (steady from last week)
Kenpom: #21 (down from #18)
RPI: #5 (down from#3)
Bracketology: #2 seed (steady from last week)

That loss to Northwestern didn’t hurt too much in any of the rankings.  In the human polls, four teams (Syracuse, Clemson, Georgetown, UCLA) that were just behind MSU [...]

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Ohio State Game Recap (1/25/09)

kj on Jan 25th 2009

MSU accelerates past Ohio State 78-67 in a 60-possession game.  Statsheet box score.
This was, of course, a tale of two halves.
The tale of the first half was Durrell Summers single-handedly keeping the team afloat, scoring 16 of the team’s 26 points as the rest of the team struggled with turnovers and 3-point shooting against the [...]

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Now we are so happy . . .

kj on Jan 25th 2009

. . . we do the Dance of Joy.

Bounceback win + 4-0 conference road record + Durrell Summers + 19-point second half scoring margin = Youtube dancing.
Game recap later tonight

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MSU-Ohio State Open Thread

kj on Jan 25th 2009

Everyone got their lucky MSU shirt on?
OK, let’s chat it up.

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No matter what the odds are this time

kj on Jan 24th 2009

Nothing’s gonna stand in our way.

(That one’s for you, Spartalytical.)

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Saturday Morning Links

kj on Jan 24th 2009

MSU’s Izzo: Pick up the purpose
100 three-point makes for Chris Allen after every practice.  For whatever reason, he’s never really looked like a Respert/Neitzel-like shooter to me in terms of consistency.
Green Lenses Takes Izzo and the Pistons Under the Microscope
Spartan Nation takes Tom Izzo to task for Wednesday’s loss.  Agree they didn’t attack the [...]

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Ohio State Game Preview

kj on Jan 23rd 2009

3:45 Sunday. Value City Arena, Columbus. CBS.
The Buckeyes enter Sunday’s game with a 3-3 record in Big Ten play.  Two of those wins, though, were home games against Iowa and Indiana.  The third was on the road against Michigan.  Ohio State is coming off an 18-point road loss to Illinois on Tuesday, in [...]

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