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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...
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...
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...
Reviewing the Michigan State-Texas Series
Piggy-backing on LVS's fanshot from last week, the date for next season's MSU-Texas game in Austin has been set for Tuesday, December 22. The game will be the sixth meeting between the two teams...
The Big Men of the Izzo Era
(. . . and the bloggers who loved them.) This fall, there will be six big men on the roster: Delvon Roe, Draymond Green, Tom Herzog, Derrick Nix, and Garrick Sherman. Of those players, ...
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