Drew Neitzel: Present and Past
kj on Jul 15th 2008
The Timberwolves’ summer league team played its first game last night. Neitzel scored 10 points on 4-5 FG shooting (all 2-pointers), including 2-2 on 3-pointers, in 14 minutes. On the downside, he had zero assists and turned the ball over two times.
Someone named Pooh Jeter, from St. Vincent College the University of Portland, was apparently [...]
Opening Night Quick Hits
kj on Jan 2nd 2008
Badgercentric has a rundown of Wisconsin’s 70-54 win in Ann Arbor. Freshman forward Jon Leuer led the Badgers with 25 points on 5-5 3-point shooting.
Penn State beat Northwestern 79-68 in Evanston. Penn State pulled down 41 of 61 rebounding opportunities. The Wildcats’ rebounding woes continue.
Indiana slipped by Iowa 79-76 in Iowa City. [...]
Cross-sport statistical irony
kj on Dec 28th 2007
Just as the MSU basketball team seems to be turning the corner on holding on to the ball, the MSU football team takes a swan dive in the opposite direction. After turning the ball over only 13 times in 12 regular season games, the Spartans of the gridiron handed it over five times tonight in [...]
Two very encouraging graphs
kj on Dec 27th 2007
So we all remember how unbelievably bad our Spartans were at holding on to the ball last season. They gave the ball up on 26.0% of offensive possessions in conference play–worst among any major conference team in either 2006 or 2007. This deficiency was the one thing that held MSU back from being [...]
Post-holiday links
kj on Dec 27th 2007
Jay Bilas on MSU and Izzo:
Michigan State coach Tom Izzo loves to say that players play, but tough players win. Well, coaches coach, but prepared coaches win, too. While so many coaches do a great job of preparing their teams, it is futile to try to suggest that one guy is the best. But it [...]
A landmark link
kj on Dec 24th 2007
The MSNBC Beyond the Arc blog asserts that MSU has vindicated itself from the Grand Valley loss with the Texas win and is now a clear national title contender (along with UCLA and Texas, with whom MSU is now caught in an infinite transitive property-defying superiority loop).
I’ve broken my self-imposed holiday blogging moratorium to post this, [...]
Texas Game Recap (12/22/07)
kj on Dec 23rd 2007
MSU beats Texas 78-72 in a game that was not as close as the score would indicate. I just wrapped up watching the game on DVR (it’s midnight) so I’m going to go rapid-fire bullet-style on the recap. Box score here.
I was surprised when I pulled up the box score and calculated this was only [...]
