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As a Spartan who visited I've been impressed. Bruce Pearl is a quality coach who did a masterful job recovering from turmoil to get here. I just saw a team that scrapped, fought, and defended like their lives depended on it. :good!: You've even been gracious hosts of me in your midst...

Probably also useful to note that MSU sucks in the Big Ten Tournament. Izzo has won it twice. He's also been in 2 National Championship games. :o

Please, please don't call us Michigan. :) Raw numbers are misleading because they hide the number of boards available. UT 36.7 Opponents 35.8 UT got 50.6% of rebounds MSU 39.1 Opponents 30.0 MSU got 56.6% of rebounds

Well from what I have seen your guys know exactly what fight they are in for on the glass. Should be interesting. We are only slightly less fond of our rebounds than this group of Spartans was about their weapons though. ***Be advised, linked video is an excerpt from the movie 300, rated R...

It's not true. We're not tall but we are wider/bigger than your bigs. Delvon Roe 6'8" 230 Raymar Morgan 6'8" 230 You'll also see some minutes out of: Derrick Nix 6'8" 280 (Less than listed weight now. He's a freshman we are still getting into shape but he's a BIG boy.) Garrick Sherman 6'10"...

suck as bad as Michigan?

It never hurts as a coach when you can bring some Magic into your locker room:

Till the NCAA starts investigating...

Yes. He had 2 NIT appearances in the first 2 years. That 95 team actually is what started his rebounding addiction. That team could barely hit water if they fell out of a boat. They needed every rebound they could get to take more bad shots. Ever since then the media has tormented MSU fans...

More confident than before the injuries even though they leave big questions. We're simply playing the best basketball of our season. Defensive focus, effort on the boards, and offensive efficiency are all improved during the tournament. This is the toughest I have seen them play and like...

Any game where I could have gotten a couple defensive boards as a short, slow, uncoordinated, old guy with a 1/2" vertical leap may skew the statistics a bit.

:lolabove: Nicely played sir, nicely played.

Just get back on track and starting beating Saban and Bama regularly. We can worry about the rest later.

Nix who started at Center was expected to play more. He played a couple of awful minutes and wasn't playing as well as normal. Then he sat. As long as he brings his normal game I expect he'll see more court time against UT. The UNI game is hard to judge things on too. Slow pace and the...

Raw numbers distort things a bit since pace matters (thanks Wiscon... er UNI). Rebound margin for the tournament UT +23, MSU +30 Margin per game UT +7.7/pg MSU +10/pg The Buckeyes barely challenged the glass (surprised the numbers were as high as they were.) If you drop that game because...