Open Thread: "Can both teams lose the same game?" Edition

by KJ@theonlycolors on Feb 17, 2010 4:34 PM CST in Michigan State Spartans Basketball

Purdue at Ohio State. 6:30 p.m. Big Ten Network.

This is kind of a big one, so we'll do a special edition game thread for a non-MSU game. Regardless of the outcome, MSU will continue to technically control its own destiny for winning the league outright. Logic would say we should pull for Ohio State, though, since we get the Buckeyes at home but have to play Purdue on the road. An Ohio State win tonight would mean that an MSU win on Sunday would set things up to win at least a share of the conference title (barring Penn State or Michigan knocking us off at the Breslin Center).

Mr. Brennan has a solid preview of the game up, along with links to pregame material from the Purdue and Ohio State blogospheres. The BTN's Brent Yarina, meanwhile, interviewed the folks from Boiled Sports and Eleven Warriors about their expectations going into the game (spoiler: they both think their boys are going to win).

Discuss away.

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"Think I'll sing it again!"

As I just typed, if a share of the Big Ten title means Purdue beating OSU, MSU beating OSU, and MSU getting swept by Purdue, Purdue can have the title. They will have earned it. It’d be a tie with a giant psychological asterisk. I say root for Purdue. Let MSU have to run the table and take the outright number one spot into their own hands. @Purdue would be the biggest win of the year thus far. Let’s make it happen.

by intrpdtrvlr on Feb 17, 2010 4:40 PM CST reply actions

If Purdue didn't have Kramer, I might be okay with that.

The thought of Kramer on a #1 seeded team just makes me want to throw up. Go Bucks.

by rook34 on Feb 17, 2010 4:54 PM CST up reply actions

I like banners

Winning the thing outright is of course the ideal.

Sharing the title with a team that beat you twice is still a title.

And the fact our best player wasn’t 100% for the first game has to count for something.

Fight for The Only Colors: Green and White!

by KJ@theonlycolors on Feb 17, 2010 5:15 PM CST up reply actions

I would not refuse to hang any banner

Of course, outright, with an win over each other team in conference, is the ideal.

by Con-T on Feb 17, 2010 5:18 PM CST up reply actions

Boiler up =P

by rcpratt on Feb 17, 2010 4:40 PM CST reply actions

Diebler Update

From Bob Baptist:

Just saw #Buckeyes’ Jon Diebler warming up. Right wrist and thumb are taped. Tape runs a couple of inches up his wrist.

Fight for The Only Colors: Green and White!

by KJ@theonlycolors on Feb 17, 2010 5:17 PM CST reply actions

Uh-oh

Bucks have NO bench.

by Con-T on Feb 17, 2010 5:19 PM CST up reply actions

Right or left handed?

Google is failing me…

by rcpratt on Feb 17, 2010 5:19 PM CST up reply actions

Right

by Con-T on Feb 17, 2010 5:20 PM CST up reply actions

YouTube knows

Right

by rcpratt on Feb 17, 2010 5:20 PM CST up reply actions

I dislike OSU

But I like our chances of hanging a banner better if they win. If we get the most likely split, an OSU win tonight means a tie and a Purdue win means second place.

by SpartanDan on Feb 17, 2010 5:43 PM CST reply actions

Lauderdale 78% from the floor?!

I guess that’s what happens when you never shoot any jumpers, only dunks and tip-ins.

by SpartanDan on Feb 17, 2010 5:44 PM CST reply actions

Hummel scoreless

Purdue up by 12.

Turner needs some help here. And quickly.

Fight for The Only Colors: Green and White!

by KJ@theonlycolors on Feb 17, 2010 6:04 PM CST reply actions

So... first half teaches us a valuable lesson...

Entire Purdue Team > Evan Turner…. too bad nobody else on Ohio State suited up today.

by MooTheKow on Feb 17, 2010 6:17 PM CST reply actions

We were up 13 at half in the first game, too.

So that’s just lovely.

On an unrelated note, I can’t wait until Turner is in the NBA with guys that are as athletic as him, and then we can watch his ONLY move (spin! spin! spin!) start to fail.

by rcpratt on Feb 17, 2010 6:21 PM CST up reply actions

I can't decide who I want to win less

I guess we have a better shot at taking the OSU game so rooting for them to win would give us the best shot at a title, but I would really like to steal one in West Lafayette. That’s not very likely but it would be more gratifying than a tie for the title when they won both head-to-head matchups. Ideally we’ll win all our remaining games and win it outright.

by TheCrestedHelm on Feb 17, 2010 6:43 PM CST reply actions