Always good advice. Go Nebraska. Let’s beat Purdue and go for 1st.
They have the tiebreaker and an easier schedule. They also still have to actually play a lot of basketball (as does Michigan).
Note that Nebraska’s starting its own grind of four games in 8-9 days, three of them on the road.
7 days – not 8 or 9.
Wow, that’s rough. It wouldn’t shock me if they lost at Rutgers on Wednesday night. Bad scheduling by the league office.
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Man, MSU is sloppy. How many turnovers is that now?
Roby only scores 2 points for Nebraska in their loss at OSU. PAYBACK FOR Wagner only getting 2 in our loss to them.
MSU giving the ball away on 42% of its offensive possessions.
You’d never guess that Illinois is leading the Big Ten in forced turnover rate and 12th or worse in the other three defensive factors.
Not sure I’ve ever seen a half like that. Illinois had 5 total rebounds as a team…0 in the first 10 minutes. Makes or turnovers damn near every single possession for MSU.
I think it’s good for UM that OSU won (aside from general dislike of OSU, of course). We’ve still got a chance to beat OSU at home and want as many top-quality wins as possible.
On another note, looks like Turgeon’s luck in close games is running out this year. Losses of 2, 2, 5, 1, and 3 this year (although there were a couple close wins too).
Michigan State scored 39 points on the 21 possessions that it didn’t turn the ball over. That’s 1.86 points per turnover-free possession.
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Winston and Narim combine for 6 turnovers. Great point guard play.
So, will MSU cool down, or stop turning it over, first?
Stop turning it over. Illinois is Illinois for a reason.
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Or maybe neither.
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The TO/High FG% are somewhat correlated. You throw alley-oops in traffic or floor length transition passes and you’re going to get either dunks or TOs.
My sense is that what you described accounts for about 8 of their 25 turnovers.
A good number of their turnovers are just sloppiness. It has been that way all year for MSU. Sloppy is part of who they are and it will be the thing that ends their season early, imo.
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Did we want Indiana or Maryland to win?
I was kind of hoping the MD win would hold up as a good win, but maybe we’re looking at two decent wins with IU and MD?