Crisler Center>Breslin Center
February 23rd, 2014 at 8:38 PM ^
ive had shitty seats and good seats at both. the shitty seats at crisler were better than the shitty seats at breslin. Izzone was huge when i was in high-SCHOOL IN 2004. But sparty rhetoric is only as good as the students who come up with it. izzone has been the same since they first came out with newspapers and who cares.... everyone is over them, especially UM basketball team.
February 23rd, 2014 at 9:07 PM ^
I don't think the Izzone invented the "Who cares?" chant or the newspaper thing - those have been around forever.
February 23rd, 2014 at 9:24 PM ^
I don't know about who is louder, but just from watching games on TV, the Izzone is full of a bunch of deperate attention-whore drunk dumb punk-ass bitches. The Maize-Rage isn't.
February 23rd, 2014 at 9:56 PM ^
permit me to rearrange a few of those dashes
"... is full a bunch of desparate-attention whore-drunk dumb punk ass-bitches". Better? I'm not sure
February 23rd, 2014 at 9:39 PM ^
The Breslin is a straight up dump.
a
a
February 23rd, 2014 at 10:47 PM ^
And crisler before the recent renovation was..?
February 23rd, 2014 at 11:19 PM ^
But now it's not. Winning
February 24th, 2014 at 5:37 AM ^
But we didn't try to bill it as "the gem of the Midwest" as they have.
February 23rd, 2014 at 10:18 PM ^
Is it possible that Michigan just has a better team than State this year? And it has nothing to do with which court gives better home court advantage?
February 23rd, 2014 at 11:25 PM ^
The Breslin Center is the loudest, toughest, atmosphere in the BIG. Nobody has students that surround the court that are that engaged in a game like at State. The reason the game at State sounded poor on TV was because ESPN's microphones were turned way down. I was there, it was the loudest building I've been in.
Could care less about the buildings themselves, they are both concrete and steel monoliths of functional engineering. They serve their purpose in every way. At Michigan its simply prettier on the inside. Michigan went with comfort and 'extras', State went with functionallity.
All that said what makes a building tough to play in is the team on the floor and John Beilein has himself a damn fine team.
February 24th, 2014 at 6:35 AM ^
I think you've been listening to Sparty propaganda too long. Breslin isn't too different from a lot of other arenas in the league. Nebraska certainly wasn't intimidated.
February 23rd, 2014 at 11:45 PM ^
I've been to Mackey Arena and that is very loud. I've also been told that Carver Hawkeye is very load. I remember being told once that they put benches in Carver Hawkeye so the fans wouldn't get to comfortable. Mackey also has benches. I never thought Crisler gave much of a home court advantage because the alumni are just too quiet. For years it was like going to a neutral site or worse like going to the ballet. When Steve Fisher came and created the Maize Rage it definitely got better. The renovation made it better. Moving the donors to best seats makes it worse. At Breslin the ring of students definitely makes it seem louder - at least on TV. I don't think we beat State today because of home court advantage but because Keith got that second foul and Adreian and Gary were just too tired and because Izzo had to do too many things that weren't normal.
February 24th, 2014 at 6:33 AM ^
The Maize Rage started under Ellerbe, actually. Under Amaker it moved closer to where it sits now.
February 24th, 2014 at 1:33 AM ^
Breslin is a dump. I've never been impressed.
February 24th, 2014 at 1:50 AM ^
Even last week's Wisconsin game was loud when we got back in it. Any place will be quiet when you're down by as much as we were early.
February 24th, 2014 at 1:55 AM ^
I'd say 1. Indiana 2. MSU 3. Michigan 4. Iowa 5. Wisconsin 6. Ohio 7. Minnesota 8. Purdue 9. Nebraska 10. Illinois 11. Northwestern 12. Penn State
February 24th, 2014 at 8:47 AM ^
Is Crisler a library? No. Is Crisler the loudest, most raucus place in the country or even B1G? No.
February 24th, 2014 at 10:47 AM ^
Crisler > Breslin. I know this how? Because the Sports Illustrated Kids "Top 10 in Everything Sports" features the Maize Rage as one of the top 10 fanbases across all sports, ahead of even the Izzone and Cameron Crazies, neither of which are on the list. Irrefutable and undisputable proof that Crisler has a better atmosphere than Breslin.
(and yes, I hang out in the B&N kids book section with my daughters)
February 24th, 2014 at 12:19 PM ^
there is no comparison. I only love going to Crisper because I love Michigan. I live closer to east landing and get free tickets from work to MSU games and there is no comparison in atmosphere. MSU actually has a large student section. what pisses me off kd that we have a maize out and it would look sweet if everyone wore maize but not the case, less than half did. MSU's old fans are a lot louder than our old golf clappers
February 24th, 2014 at 12:54 PM ^
Ain't nothin' better than the CRISPER!!!
February 24th, 2014 at 1:48 PM ^
Breslin is okay. The "Stadium" where their "football team" plays is a complete piece of ****. I'd rather hang out in parts of Detroit before I go there again.