Posted in bcs, links, michigan state basketball, rant on April 30, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The Old Spice Classic has announced the addition of Georgetown to their 2008 field. Rexrode notes this means MSU could potentially end up playing up to six teams from Fox Sport’s preliminary preseason top 20 in the nonconference season.
Donovan Kirk is off the board; he’s verbally committed to Miami of Florida. UMHoops [...]
Posted in jamil wilson, michigan state basketball, recruiting on April 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Interesting article on Jamil Wilson by scout.com’s Sam Webb in Thursday’s Detroit News. Wilson is a 6′7″ forward from Racine, Wisconsin who is likely Izzo’s #1 target for the remaining one or two slots in MSU’s 2009 recruiting class.
As previously speculated, Wilson confirms that Crean taking the IU job led Izzo to recruit Wilson more [...]
Posted in michigan state basketball on April 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Chicago Sun-Times has a couple articles up on the Izzo-Bulls story: This one say he’s too short/sensitive. More constructively, this one provides some details on his contract:
Chances are Izzo is interested in causing enough nervousness among Michigan State officials that they come up with more money to keep him. According to a USA Today [...]
Posted in michigan state basketball, tom izzo on April 23, 2008 | 7 Comments »
You can thank TMadison’s comment to the previous post for this morning jolt: Yahoo is reporting that Izzo may be under consideration for the open Bulls coaching spot. I don’t want to blow this out of proportion, but since Izzo himself has commented–and doesn’t rule it out–I thought it was worth passing along. [...]
Posted in michigan state basketball, recruiting on April 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It’s a streak, baby!
Joe Rexrode is reporting that junior big man Derrick Nix of Detroit Pershing has verbally committed to MSU. And at 6′9″, 275 pounds, he’s definitely a BIG man. Scout.com has him as a three-star prospect, for whatever that’s worth. The Free Press says he played very well this past [...]
Posted in michigan state basketball, recruiting on April 17, 2008 | 6 Comments »
You’ve probably noticed at this point that I don’t have much to say about recruiting. This results from some combination of (1) a personal outlook that tends to focus on the present and (2) a lack of patience to wade through all the message board chatter on recruiting. But with the late signing [...]
Posted in big ten, msu basketball on April 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We’ve been waiting to hear (1) who MSU would play in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge next season and (2) whether they’d play a nonconference game at Ford Field. Today, both questions we’re answered: They’ll play North Carolina at Ford Field on Wednesday, December 3, as part of the challenge. The full list of [...]
Posted in big ten, michigan state basketball on April 14, 2008 | 12 Comments »
In case you’re getting tired of staring at boxes of numbers . . .
I missed this last week: Devin, the winner of our nontraditional bracket contest, is also the proprietor of College Basketball Chronotope, an IU basketball blog. To reward him for his prognosticating acumen (unlike traditional pools, picking all four #1 seeds didn’t [...]
Posted in michigan state basketball on April 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »
After a freshman season in which he quickly emerged as MSU’s second most effective offensive option, Raymar Morgan came into the 2007-08 season with high expectations. This blogger went so far as to predict he’d be a first-team all-Big Ten pick and declare him a candidate for conference player of the year. As [...]
Posted in kalin lucas, michigan state basketball, travis walton on April 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
First, a final rankings update:
The final coaches’ poll puts us at 13th, up from 20th in the pre-tournament poll. (I don’t think the AP does a post-tournament poll.) The voters probably weight tournament performance a bit too heavily. Despite making the Sweet Sixteen, Wisconsin dropped from #5 to #10, implying their regular season performance was [...]
