Some hope for Spartan fans heading into the Louisville matchup:
I’ve heard several college basketball analysts call this a bad matchup for Michigan State for a couple of reasons that I dispute: style of play and home court advantage. As for style of play, the theory goes that Louisville is a pressing, trapping type of team [...]

Nevermind.

I feel like rambling.
The Big East had a great record last weekend at the NCAAs, but don’t forget how highly those teams were seeded. When you’ve got three #1s and two #2’s, all you did so far was avoid being upset — something that those teams did by some fairly narrow margins. I’m not calling [...]

Have you noticed that the non-Big Ten powerhouse teams seem to win their opening round NCAA games by approximately 50,000 points each? I don’t mean Villanova, obviously, but I’m talking about Carolina winning by 43 yesterday, Connecticut by 56, Oklahoma by 28, and other similar results down through the years. I love and respect the [...]

As Tigers’ fans fixate warily on the team’s starting pitching (my prediction is that Dontrelle Willis pulls it together just enough to earn the last slot and hold off Rick Porcello, while neither Nate Robertson nor Zach Miner make the roster as starters or relievers), it’s easy to overlook the bright side: the bullpen looks [...]

Bill Raftery didn’t seem to think so when Gus Johnson asked him during yesterday’s MSU-Purdue telecast.
But here’s how it could happen, assuming MSU wins the Big Ten Tournament and picks up two or three more wins against RPI-Top 50 competition (though none against other elite teams) in the process:

UNC wins the ACC Tournament. When the [...]