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

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Coffee Talk: Back to Basketball

kj on Sep 22nd 2008

Must . . . not . . . get . . . emotionally . . . invested . . . in . . . MSU . . . football . . . team.
We’re now just 25 days from Midnight Madness (Friday, October 17; haven’t seen any details yet).  Let’s chat about how this basketball team [...]

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Another recruiting post

kj on Apr 21st 2008

It’s a streak, baby!
Joe Rexrode is reporting that junior big man Derrick Nix of Detroit Pershing has verbally committed to MSU. And at 6′9″, 275 pounds, he’s definitely a BIG man. Scout.com has him as a three-star prospect, for whatever that’s worth. The Free Press says he played very well this past [...]

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Unloading my minimal knowledge about recruiting

kj on Apr 17th 2008

You’ve probably noticed at this point that I don’t have much to say about recruiting. This results from some combination of (1) a personal outlook that tends to focus on the present and (2) a lack of patience to wade through all the message board chatter on recruiting. But with the late signing [...]

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