What, No Spartanfreude Thread???
Very few have done it better than Bert Blyleven though....
"Oh, we're live? "
After his partner drops a couple F bombs lol
After what happened to us earlier this week.............no thanks.
Not to thread jack, but in the spirit of SPARTY NO, McDowell is making waves at the combine. From Jon Ledyard:
"Malik McDowell going off script, saying coaches eventually conformed to his style bc they couldnt change/improve him, says he cld play safety"
Biggest interview of your life, and you tell them you are basically uncoachable. LOL Dantonio's locker room was a bigger mess than we thought.
He must have missed the Charles Rogers draft. Uh Ndamakong Suh much?
like Jabril is doing.
douche bags everyday for the last 3 years.
He should just drop out of the pros, kick some people in the nuts, shoot himself in the thigh or sexually assault someone and finish his descent into a full Sparty pro career.
Your comment was kinda funny. Your username and pic are in poor taste and really fucking old.
Turns out that Spartan goonery being the key factor in his recruitment was a giant red flag after all...
Besides even with that loss, MSU is still in the tournament.
So let's say they have a first round exit from the BTT. Are you saying they are 100%, absolutely, without a doubt in the tournament at 18-14?
but probably 99 percent and change. There would have to be chaos in the conference tourneys with a bunch of bid stealers for MSU not to make it. They played a very difficult schedule and won...a few of them. That will almost always be enough for the committee. And I don't mind the reward for playing tough schedules if it incentivizes more teams to play good non-conference games.
That they were in position to win at Maryland is actually better than they were expected to do, so this outcome gets a shrug from me.
They beat Witchita State in the Bahamas and lost to Northeastern at home in the nonconference. They beat no one else of note outside of the conference.
I am fully aware.
Sparty has always loved these in football and basketball.
But I believe, if you keep losing to quality opponents, you're not a quality team
They're going to get in on prestige alone.
If needing to win more than one game against a tourney team in the non-conference was necessary to get into the field, they'd be out. But it's not. Look at the other bubble teams if you want to see some more suspect resumes. I pointed out that they only won a few of the tough games they played, but that's enough when 68 teams get in.
They beat WSU, Minn (twice), NW, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Their RPI is good enough and their SOS is what the committee fawns over. They'll be in the tournament barring something crazy.
I would LOVE to be wrong, of course.
It gets you in if you've been to the Final 4 as many times—seven—as Izzo has. While it's not impossible that MSU doesn't get in, the likelihood that a guy who's already in the Naismith doesn't get his team in is so low that schadenfreude at this point is jizzing in your shorts.
The only thing that may have changed in your hypothetical scenario is maybe they have to play in the play-in games on Tuesday. Most people have Vanderbilt in at 17-14. MSU is in.
Possibly, but Iowa does not affect MSU. Iowa getting in would probably mean another conference would lose a bid or there would be a lack of conference tournament upsets.
Look at Bracket Matrix just to see the buffer MSU has from being left out:
Their conf and overall records would be the same, like you said. You're incorrect that they split. They only played once and MSU won by 11. MSU played a much more difficult schedule so their same number of losses were to better teams. Iowa's worst loss (Nebraska Omaha) is worse than MSU's loss to Northeastern. Iowa lost to Memphis on a neutral floor, MSU won a comparable game against St. John's. MSU has two other top 100 RPI wins in non-conference.
That's why MSU is a top 50 RPI and Iowa will still be in the 70s. And with these two teams, RPI is pretty much spot on. MSU is 51 in kenpom; Iowa is 68th.
Iowa could make up ground in the BTT but even if they win tomorrow, they'll still be way behind. Their resumes aren't close. That's why MSU is in and Iowa has a lot of work left to do.
Correct, Leaders and Best.
Their AD is the head of the selection committee. Have your seen their easy tournament draws in the last 4 years since he's been on the committee (Virignia the 1 and 2 seed in their pod back to back years)?
They would get in the tourney with a losing overall record (No sarcasm).
January, February, 0-2, April.