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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 [...]

Our friends from Ann Arbor did everything they could to do us a solid (as the kids say), nearly upsetting Wisconsin in Madison.  They fell just short, losing 64-61.
The Wolverines played with an intensity rarely seen from the Maize and Blue in recent years–particularly on the boards.  They pulled down 19 offensive rebounds in 33 [...]

Be sure to check out bterp’s rundown of the Minnesota game.  Bterp is, in ascending order of importance, the following:
3) The Official Brother of the Brother-in-Law of the Spartans Weblog.
2) A DirecTV subscriber–so he actually, you know, watches all the games.
1) Someone who knows something about playing basketball–as opposed to someone who knows how to perform [...]

Since MSU didn’t play a game mid-week, I thought I’d take a quick look at last night’s intra-state tilt between Michigan and Oakland. [Insert snarky joke about playing for bragging rights as the second best college basketball team in Michigan here.] You’ll recall this is the same Oakland team that took MSU down [...]

Surfing the information highway while listening to the Spartans on the radio . . .
Tommy Amaker took revenge on his former employer today, as the Harvard Crimson beat the Michigan Wolverines 62-51 in Boston.  The Crimson scored the final 11 points of the game.  Deshaun Sims led the Wolverines with 14 points, but took 18 [...]