College basketball: Michigan 55, UCLA 52. I’m about to post Part III of my epic Mark Dantonio trilogy, which was inspired by MSU football’s “program win” over Wisconsin. Well, John Beilein’s U-M basketball team had a pretty significant program win of its own last night, toppling #4 UCLA 55-52 at Madison Square Garden in the [...]
I’ll have an MSU football post tomorrow to tide us over during the bye week. But today, briefly, some links:
College basketball signing day: MSU gets two ESPN Top 100 players, Derrick Nix and Garrick Sherman, both centers ranked among the top 10 centers by Rivals. State went big to replace outgoing frontcourt seniors Goran Suton, [...]
11 Nov, 2008
Posted by: Steve In: Red Wings| UM basketball
College basketball: Michigan 77, Michigan Tech 55. Michigan opens the season with an easy win over Tech in the opening round of the lengthily named 2008 2K Sports Classic benefiting Coaches vs. Cancer. Manny Harris scored a career-high 30 points, DeShawn Sims notched his second-ever double-double with ten points and 12 boards, and this one [...]
11 Nov, 2008
Posted by: Steve In: Lions| MSU basketball| Red Wings| Tigers| UM basketball
College basketball: Michigan State won its second exhibition 112-69 over Lake Superior State. Raymar Morgan had 23 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Spartans, and Durrell Summers followed his monster game againt Northern Michigan with another strong performance — 18 points in 19 minutes. Box score.
Also, Michigan opens the regular season tonight, hosting Michigan [...]
A lot of sports blogs are stats-heavy. It makes sense: bloggers aren’t generally close enough to teams and players to report on the mood in the locker room, but many of us can crunch numbers like a CPA. (Many of us might actually be CPAs.) But while that approach can be a good way to [...]
