Crazy that we play only seven total games against the six worst teams in the conference, while we have 12 games against the six best opponents. We got about the toughest league schedule we could.
(Of course we lost to Minny and almost dropped a couple others against basement teams, so maybe that’s just as well.)
Michigan has the 3rd toughest remining conf schedule. MSU is #1. Conference schedule seems more imbalanced this year than normal. Usually the best teams have the easiest schedules without too much variation but it’s all over the place this year. Somehow IU and Iowa are gonna walk out with way easier schedules than Purdue and Illinois and everyone else above them
Good year for that; in retrospect we weren’t threatening to win the conference title anyways. So, you take your short end of the stick when there’s less on the table.
Ready for another episode in Adventures in Refereeing with Illinois-MSU today
TIL Illinois retired Ayo’s number.
This MSU offense is absolute trash.
Curbelo is just a fascinating player. Maybe a best-case scenario for Frankie
What similarities do you see in their games?
Athleticism, fearlessness, wild handle, aggressive but fundamentally questionable defense, lack of jumper
MSU last 9 shots are missed jumpers. Drop coverage
sigh Illinois are the kings at that. And somehow msu beat Wisconsin who also does drop tho
Won that game in Madison with their transition offense. This Wisconsin team is much worse in transition than you would expect.
Tyler Wahl was missing he’s an impact guy.
Why is Jay Williams calling this game?
I suppose… I think that Curbelo showed a ridiculous amount of court vision, ball screen feel and passing ability as a freshman that I haven’t seen from Frankie yet.
Dug is closer to Curbelo than Frankie is
and continuing with those shots
MSU 10 man bench. Had to get Pierre brooks some minutes!
Hence best case haha
Who is the team best equipped to defeat Illinois this year? Either in the B1G or overall. Obviously they are not undefeated but what is the best recipe against them? They seem to have the best recipe for beating Michigan