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Breakdownability, BTT Edition: OSU vs MSU

Ken — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:32:46 +0000

School: Michigan State University

Location: East Lansing, MI

Founded: 1855

Student Population: 47,954 total, 36,675 undergrad

School Type: Public

Stadium: Breslin Center

Seating: 16,000

Opened: 1989

Head Coach: Tom Izzo

Experience: 18th year

I’m not going to spend copious time and effort previewing this game. The 10th ranked Buckeyes (23-7, 13-5) and the 8th ranked Spartans (24-7, 13-5) will meet in the Conference semifinal, after splitting their two regular season games. More recently, OSU downed MSU 68-60; here’s the preview to that game, and here’s the recap. I link to that game because Ohio State won, and I’m sure we’d like to see that happen on Saturday.

Nonetheless, here we are, March, Tom Izzo’s time of year. Ohio State can expect to run into the usual stout defense and brutal rebounding. Other than the 13-point loss to Minnesota, MSU’s other six losses have been by 8 points or less. The … [Read More]

Breakdownability: OSU-MSU II

Ken — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 23:37:16 +0000

School: Michigan State University

Location: East Lansing, MI

Founded: 1855

Student Population: 47,954 total, 36,675 undergrad

School Type: Public

Stadium: Breslin Center

Seating: 16,000

Opened: 1989

Head Coach: Tom Izzo

Experience: 18th year

Before We Get Started

Michigan State comes into this game, despite the tough loss to Indiana on Tuesday, on a bit of an Izzo Roll. In 2013, the Spartans are 11-2, with both losses coming against a higher ranked Indiana team; no shame there.

I had an email exchange with my MSU friend this week; he mentioned that he was on a bit disappointed in the Indiana outcome, but the game watch hard for him to watch. [Ed. Note: Please, don't tell me about games that are 'hard to watch']. His point is taken. He was annoyed by what he felt was MSU’s lapses in focus, particularly on inbound plays. So, we can probably expect a … [Read More]

tBBC B1G Basketball Roundtable – Part One

WVaBuckeye — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:15:24 +0000

With basketball season rapidly approaching and a lot of information to digest from around the conference, I thought it was high time we here from bloggers representing them. We kick off a series in roundtables with our first five today and we are doing our very best to round up the rest of the B1G for you! We hope you enjoy the feature and give us plenty of feedback!

We’re doing our best attempt at giving everyone a good picture of each team with a variety of questions. I want to take this opportunity to thank our first four panelist; Covering Purdue and a great video guy that you can catch here exclusively to tBBC at times, WCBI TV’s own Robby Donoho and his latest video ; covering Spartan Nation is one of the best in that state up north in Hondo Carpenter; taking care of the Hoosiers for us … [Read More]