Harvard v. Staee
March 21st, 2014 at 12:17 PM ^
Rootin' for the smart kids.
March 21st, 2014 at 12:33 PM ^
Can you clarify? I heard Michigan State was the Harvard of East Lansing...
"Rootin for the smaaaht kids."
In the yaaahd.
The Harvard of East Lansing is East Lansing High School where I went to school. Trojans represent!
March 21st, 2014 at 12:19 PM ^
Let's go nerds!!!
March 21st, 2014 at 12:20 PM ^
Represent the Ivy League well tomorrow!
March 21st, 2014 at 12:22 PM ^
I have MSU advancing, but don't have any money on the line, so I will, of course, be rooting for Harvard. That said, I think MSU will win by 15+.
March 21st, 2014 at 12:27 PM ^
March 21st, 2014 at 12:28 PM ^
March 21st, 2014 at 12:56 PM ^
Here's is hoping for the Michigan of the East Coast pulls a dandy of an upset against Sparty. That would really make my Friday.
I used to live in Boston, and I was eating somewhere in Cambridge about ten years ago when a kid walked into the restaurant wearing a t-shirt that said, "Logical Positivists are Chicken Shit."
I realized I'd entered a slightly different world.
I have them in the final 4. I'd easily give up my $5 for a sparty loss in the first round to Tommy and Harvard.
THIRD round!
Harvard is in the top 50 in Kenpom's Adj0 and AdjD. MSU won't be blowing them out.
the blue-collar no-class Sparty, and my heart says "oh yeah!"
I am looking forward to all the references to Harvard having a "Princeton offense".
Yes, I have seen several of those references already. Aside from the fact that Amaker wants his players to go through a series of passes before really looking for a shot, I don't think it really is a Princeton style offense at all. No back-door; no double curls; no running the offense through a Center stationed between the foul line and the top of the arc. Interestingly enough, I think Belein's playbook shows more Princeton influence than Amaker's does, at least it did last year when he would run sets through McGary stationed up high.
Belein has always had the five start between the foul line and the three point line. Morgan and Horford can set a ball screen or take a pass and then set a ball screen. Very Princeton-like.
I have a hard time seeing MSU lose this particular game, but I noted one ominous sign for them, going forward: the refs called a ton of fouls on them yesterday. Most of their annoying handchecks, reach-ins and grabs were actually whistled as fouls. Payne played the game of his life (41 points in 24 minutes!) and they still only won by 15 because Delaware lived at the foul line. If that kind of officiating continues, MSU probably won't make it to Dallas.
beat State