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Do Tom Izzo teams get better as the season goes on?
[Note: Post has been updated with TOC-produced scatterplots at the bottom.] The Duke Blue Devils tend to play less efficiently as the conference season goes on: The Michigan State Spartans perform p...
'An old-fashioned whoopin'
UW ends Spartans' undefeated conference run MADISON, Wis. -- Knock, knock. Hear that? That's the rest of the conference at the door, Michigan State. Tired of watching the Spartans eek...
A Losing Basketball Season Will Never Be Acceptable At UCLA
During yesterday's discussion I mentioned multiple times that a losing season will never be acceptable at UCLA. I wanted to offer up some numbers from other coaches to back up that assertion. First of...
Adreian Payne Spurns West Virginia, Chooses Michigan State
[dishearteningly awesome photo via assets.espn.go.com] Mountaineer fans will not have to grapple with the unusual spelling of Adreian Payne's first name too much since the star 2010 recruit has...
Preseason Musings: Depth
Depth ratio, as formulated last June: Depth Ratio = (minutes played by top two players) / (minutes played by 8th and 9th players) This ratio allows us to compare a single number across different team...
MSU's defensive tendencies during the Tom Izzo era
A couple weeks ago, I promised you some long-term analysis of MSU's defensive tempo-free numbers. (I'm sure you've been jumping out of bed every morning and running to the computer to see if thi...
Contemplating MSU vs. MSU
No, I'm not talking about the football game against Montana State (just 33 days away!). I'm talking about replicating the exhibition game North Carolina is staging between two teams of former Ta...
Wednesday Night Links: Vote-for-Tom Edition
Big Ten Network Shows - Big Ten Awards Show 2009 - Big Ten NetworkFriday night at 9:00. The MSU basketball and soccer teams, along with their respective coaches, are both up for awards. C...
The Big Blue Daily Mail -- Who is to Blame for Cheating?
We have seen, lately, many assaults on the "one-and-done" rule currently provided for by the NBA. Essentially, the rule requires a player to do something else with himself after high school, unt...
Links!
Having been fascinated/obssessed with the nifty Fanshot feature, I haven't done a link post since the move to the new site. Time to correct that: Tom Izzo gets a trim, not ready to go bald yetH...
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