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Barring future developments of an unforeseen nature, this is the final post of the Spartans Weblog.  Commenting will be shut down in a few days; the site will remain up for archival purposes as long as Mrs. SW lets me continue to pay the server costs (or I figure out how to upload the contents [...]

North Carolina obliterates Michigan State 89-72 in a 76-possession game.  StatSheet box score.
This four-factor graph does not tell the story:
NCAA Basketball Stats

The turnover differential obviously shows up loud and clear, but the other bars understate the degree to which the Tar Heels outplayed us.  Statistically speaking, this game was played in two distinct phases:

The first [...]

To date, this basketball season has been a blogging dream.  On the court, our team has fulfilled, if not exceeded, preseason expectations by running away with the Big Ten Championship–despite a series of injuries and illnesses along the way.  On the blog, I managed to make some pretty good predictions before the season began (more [...]

Wednesday Night Links

Game 25: Michigan State at Michigan Post Game
Dylan on last night’s game.  Points out that the series of fairly random events that ended the first half was a pretty big key to the MSU win.
Two Winners in Michigan
Hoopraker.  Not sure our Wolverine friends will agree.
Better days at Crisler
Eric Lacy on the UM [...]

I’ve made a couple minor site upgrades:

Added an Archives page, with collapsible listsings of posts by month.
Added user-enabled editing of comments.  You now have five minutes after you make a comment to go back and edit it.  This is intended for those obvious typos/errors you notice immediately after you click “Submit Comment.”

OK, let’s get the [...]

I finally got around to upgrading my WordPress software to the latest version.  Given my very limited technical knowledge, I’m quite pleased that I was able to make it work in the period of an hour and a half.  But I did manage to lose all the comments that were posted today.  I think there [...]

MSU-Kansas Thoughts
To pay my blogging penance, I watched the full game on videotape this afternoon.  Here’s the rest of the game recap:
Perhaps the most encouraging aspect of the current nine-game winning streak is how everyone in the playing rotation seems to be finding their respective roles.  Eleven players played significant minutes yesterday, and all of [...]