Part of Michigan State Basketball's Big Ten Schedule Released
by Pete Rossman on Sep 6, 2011 4:48 PM CDT
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The Big Ten finally got around to releasing the games tthat will be on CBS and ESPN today. Here's Michigan State's games:
- Tuesday, January 3rd, 7 p.m. -- MSU at Wisconsin, ESPN 2
- Tuesday, January 17th, 7 p.m. -- MSU at Michigan, ESPN
- Saturday, January 21st, Noon -- Purdue at MSU, ESPN
- Tuesday, January 31st, 7 p.m. -- MSU at Illinois, ESPN
- Sunday, February 5th, 1 p.m. -- Michigan at MSU, CBS
- Saturday, February 11th, 6 p.m. -- MSU at Ohio State, ESPN
- Thursday, February 16th, 7 p.m. -- Wisconsin at MSU, ESPN/2
- Sunday, February 19th, 1 p.m. -- MSU at Purdue, CBS (Wildcard, along with Indiana at Iowa and Penn State at Wisconsin)
- Tuesday, February 28th, 7 p.m. -- Michigan State at Indiana, ESPN
- Sunday, March 4th, 1/4 p.m. -- Ohio State at MSU, CBS/ESPN (Wildcard, along with Michigan at Penn State and Illinois at Wisconsin)
A few thoughts:
- A wild card game means the network can wait a week or two before the game to choose which game they'll air. If I had to guess I'd say MSU has both its wild card games on CBS, because MSU and Purdue are hopefully a bigger draw than Indiana at Iowa (and definitely over Wisconsin and Penn State). The second game will air because the OSU at MSU game could loom huuuuuggge, and it's Senior Day.
- It looks like State should have an easy start to the season, with only one absolutely tough game before January 15th in conference.
- Toughest three-game stretch? February 11th-19th: at Ohio State, Wisconsin, and at Purdue. 0-3 would be a bit rough, 1-2 would be acceptable, 2-1 and I'm pretty darn happy, and if MSU went 3-0 in this stretch they're most likely winning the Big Ten.
What do you think?
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Don't like that OSU game on Senior Day.
Gonna be tough for Roe, Green, and Thornton to kiss midcourt. They can do it but OSU might be positively frightening by that time.
Ohio State has some questions to answer
Right now they’re getting a lot of respect because of Sullinger. He is a beast but they just lost one of the better point guards in college bball and will be calling on a sophomore (talented, no doubt) to step up. The exact same set of circumstances at MSU is making “experts” question our team and “fans” lower their expectations.
The only frightening team Matta has had was 07 when he had the #1 overall pick and another first rounder in his starting five. Evan Turner was an outstanding college player and they still fell short while he was there. Last year they were considered an elite team, with possibly the #1 overall pick, and fell short again.
My point is: If this team can reach its potential, and there is no reason to think they won’t, then I’ll take Izzo over Matta at home on senior day without thinking twice about it.
mmmmm... basketball said Homer
It’s getting close.
I think the schedule is what it is. We know who, now we know when or we will by tomorrow.
As long as there’s good health(Russell Roe) and no more LCD issues, I like the green guys.
OSU on Sr day, not sure how that happened but whatever. Pretty sure the A game will be on display that day. Time for some revenge in that series.
"the game is out there, and it's play or get played. That simple" - Omar
Senior day
Yeah how did we get OSU for that? I thought senior day is supposed to be a creampuff opponent.
by MSUDersh on Sep 6, 2011 7:26 PM CDT via iPhone app up reply actions
It depends
Two years ago it was Purdue. Good think it was a win, because it would’ve been kind of strange to raise the Big Ten Champions banner after a loss — not that it wouldn’t have been awesome regardless.
Kind of figured it would be Michigan this year.
With their epic resurgence and all.
by rook34 on Sep 6, 2011 8:56 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Hey now!
Beilein made an Elite Eight run six years ago – all teams in the big ten should fear him because that proves he’s an outstanding coach!
There's also that conference championship
Which was about 11-12 years ago when he coached the dreaded Richmond spiders.
by Conor Boyle on Sep 7, 2011 7:50 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Wisconsin '04
Wait, I erased that game from my memory, never mind.
"You can look at the dinosaur that weighs you down or you can look at the big pot of gold (and) try to say, 'You know what? I'm going to try to live up to expectations.' " -Tom Izzo, Iron Mountain Philosopher
by Ducking Delvon on Sep 7, 2011 12:10 PM CDT up reply actions
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