I would be genuinely shocked if msu beat Duke. They haven’t beaten a team that good in a while
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Zero chance. Izzo’s black magic has run out, what’s left is a withered carcass of a program.
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KenPom gives both Michigan and MSU 28% chances in their respective games.
I would take a Duke loss if it meant a Michigan victory. 
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I would take a Duke loss just because
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My wife is out here chanting go badgers because she knows it’ll get under my skin (while wearing a Michigan hoodie!). I’m drafting papers.
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As somebody pointed out earlier, the nice thing is that one of them has to lose.
I just hope I still care about the tournament after about 8 PM tomorrow. 
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It’s a wildly talented Duke team that’s never really hit its stride and I think could easily miss a lot of 3’s given the chance. The spread is gonna be 7-10 tho so they still prob lose but there’s a way forward I think.
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Oh yeah that’s the most important thing. Don’t care who wins as long as Michigan is one of the teams doing the winning. Going to be tough but we have a puncher’s chance.
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Interesting. I think Duke is going to smack them down. Not sure if they can beat texas tech if they match up though. Seems like a game Duke might have trouble with. Who knows though, maybe Duke finally lives up to their potential and goes deep.
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I’d rather Michigan win and Iowa state and Duke but ymmv
It really was. However, it did set up a lot of really good games on Sunday.
We got LSU as a, what, 8 seed last year? And although they didn’t play a lick of defense, that was a MUCH better team than this year’s 6 seed version.
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I know tomorrow would be a pretty unlikely win but kind of crazy that we may be 1 game away from playing Ohio State in the tourney. And 2 games from playing Illinois. We’ve played them both in the tourney before but I wasn’t a fan at that point in my life yet. Would be a pretty cool thing to see.
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Heck yeah. Extend the Sweet 16 streak and the rest is gravy. Considering what this team has gone through…
Of course, I reserve the right to be devastated with the results no matter how far they advance.
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Could not be more different. As pretty strong evidence, remember everyone picked that LSU team to upset us.
And they knew it was an interim situation and a mess when they gifted them that bogus 6 for their bracket.
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OSU’s matchup is nearly as tough as Michigan’s. A Sweet 16 game against them would be fun, though; if both teams are at full strength, I like Michigan’s chances against OSU a lot more than I like them against Villanova.
And if the halftime score happened to be 42-27, I think they’d have to call the game, as we’d all have rushed the court. 
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If Duke let’s them hang around, that’s the path.
This msu team all year was barely favored in various games.
They’d fall beyond. Work their way back. And pull ahead with 5 minutes left.
That was some vintage Izzo defense out there down the stretch. But against a #10 seed.
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That is the one thing that been missing from all of michigan’s tournament runs of recent times: a conference matchup. I’ve never seen it either.
Seems like in a lot of the runs in the 80s and 90s it happened.
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