Ohio State Game Recap (3/14/09)
kj on Mar 14th 2009
The Spartans bow out to the Buckeyes 82-70 in a 69-possession game. StatSheet box score.
Your bar graph:
NCAA Basketball Stats
Your bullets:
The difference in 2-point shooting percentages was fairly narrow, so the big differential in the eFG% bar was driven almost entirely by 3-point shooting. They hit 9 of 16 from beyond the arc. We hit 3 [...]
Minnesota Game Recap/Ohio State Open Thread Combo Meal
kj on Mar 13th 2009
Minnesota Game Recap
MSU advances past Minnesota 64-56 in a 64-possession game. StatSheet box score.
Having digested 5 full hours of basketball since the game ended (we bolted at halftime of the last game), all I can give you is a graph:
NCAA Basketball Stats
And some bullets:
Disappointingly small rebounding advantage and a negative turnover differential. Three-point shooting (41.7% [...]
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 [...]
MSU-Ohio State Open Thread
kj on Jan 25th 2009
Everyone got their lucky MSU shirt on?
OK, let’s chat it up.
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 [...]
Ohio State Game Recap (1/8/09)
kj on Jan 6th 2009
The Spartans knock off the Buckeyes 67-58 in a 60-possession game. Official box score.
Events conspired against me tonight. I thought I had access to ESPN2, but apparently when you get ESPN and ESPN2 in the Bahamas, you really only get ESPN, as both channels were showing the ESPN feed. And my laptop was cranky; getting [...]
Ohio State Game Preview
kj on Jan 5th 2009
7:00 Tuesday. The Breslin Center. ESPN2.
Ohio State started the season very efficiently, getting out to a 9-0 start. Included in those nine wins were a road victory over Miami of Florida and a neutral-court defeat of Notre Dame (in Indianapolis). The Buckeyes held eight of their first nine opponents under a point per possession.
Since then, [...]