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The Spartans stick it to the Badgers 60-51 in a 59-possessions game.  StatSheet box score.
Let’s start with what still worries me after this game: Three-point shooting.  MSU made just 2 of 9 attempts from beyond the arc, with both makes coming in the final minutes of the game.  That’s our fourth straight game with 3 [...]

Just shoot the ball, my man.
I’m headed to the Breslin Center.  (This is the most games I’ve been to since I had student season tickets.)
BEAT BUCKY!

Friday Night Links

Tears from Jud?
1979 reunion Sunday.
Red eyes revisited
Mr. Rexrode reminds us what happens the last time MSU and Wisconsin met. Also: Morgan could play 20 minutes; Lucious has the flu.
Here we go again…
Boiled Sports reporting Robbie Hummel’s back is acting up again; could put him out for the season.  Classy blogger in me hopes [...]

I only returned from frolicking on the beach in time to watch the second half of Saturday’s game.  So I can’t comment in an informed manner about the entirety of the game.  But the box score tells a bizarre story in terms of finding the statistical pieces of a Spartan victory:

We were outrushed by 223 [...]

Well, the unanimous conclusion of this blog’s readers is that Wisconsin is our main rival.  And I can’t argue with that conclusion.  Chalk this week’s Coffee Talk question up as non-debate-inducing.
The one caveat readers offered about Wisconsin being our biggest rival is the one-sidedness of the rivalry in recent years.  Wisconsin has beaten MSU in [...]

To get a better sense how individual offensive ratings and usage percentages fit together, here are scatter plots for the top two teams in the Big Ten this past season.  Note that the vertical axis is recalibrated based on the approximate average team offensive efficiency figure for both teams (108.9 for Wisconsin; 105.0 for Purdue).

The [...]