Down goes Sparty to Illinois!
The couch fires in East Lansing will be visible from space.
Sparty had 24 turnovers for the game. Must be all those weird guys they're playing. Oh, wait, Cassius Winston had 9(!!) of those turnovers. He was an assist and a turnover away from the most dubious triple double of all time.
At least they made their free throws this time....
February 5th, 2019 at 10:10 PM ^
Overrated as always. Izzo should hang it up while he still has some pride left.
February 5th, 2019 at 10:16 PM ^
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
February 5th, 2019 at 10:17 PM ^
I just shed a tear
February 5th, 2019 at 10:26 PM ^
Win for the good guys.
loss for the sharties
February 5th, 2019 at 10:27 PM ^
Their roster management has been just terrible. I know losing Langford hurt to some extent, but he was mostly just a catch and shoot guy and not much else. They have literally no guards outside of Winston, and he looks terrible when he has to shoulder the entire load.
Nick Ward is back to his annual complete mental and emotional collapse and Sparty is still trying to play like three bigs at a time.
MSU basketball is a lot like Michigan football. Ancient philosophies protected by the argument that "it worked in the past." The difference is Harbaugh is at least trying to adapt. Izzo is doubling down and ruining his legacy each and every year he gets smacked by Michigan and tossed out of the tourney early
February 5th, 2019 at 10:32 PM ^
Harbaugh hasn’t won’t a damn championship in college...Izzo has. Bad comparison
February 5th, 2019 at 10:41 PM ^
He sure did...19 years ago.
February 6th, 2019 at 12:12 PM ^
Agreed Harbaugh hasn't won a damn thing in college. That is not the right comparison. The Lloyd comparison is spot on though.
February 6th, 2019 at 12:46 PM ^
Harbaugh is a much better coach than either Izzo or Carr, Harbaugh probably goes undefeated with the talent Carr pulled in.
February 5th, 2019 at 10:42 PM ^
Izzo is more like Lloyd. Both caught lightning in a bottle and won national titles early in their tenures. Both still able to recruit pretty well but find ways to underachieve based on the talent on the roster etc.
February 5th, 2019 at 10:54 PM ^
This is a good analogy.
February 6th, 2019 at 7:59 AM ^
Nailed it. Great analogy
February 6th, 2019 at 8:59 AM ^
You're spot on.
The one difference is Lloyd's guys produce at the next level. You never really hear from Izzo's guys at the next level (D. Green excepted).
I think Drew Neitzel is tearing it up somewhere in the Caucuses.
February 6th, 2019 at 11:24 AM ^
Another difference is their record against Top 10 teams.
Lloyd had a .667 winning percentage against Top 10 teams. Izzo has a .420 winning percentage against Top 10 teams.
February 5th, 2019 at 10:29 PM ^
Oh, wait, Cassius Winston had 9(!!) of those turnovers.
Michigan had 7 turnovers as a team tonight.
February 5th, 2019 at 10:31 PM ^
I don’t care about sparty.
February 6th, 2019 at 7:33 AM ^
I don't believe you. Why did you click on this thread?
February 5th, 2019 at 10:36 PM ^
haha... suck it Sparty...
February 5th, 2019 at 10:39 PM ^
More happy news!!! HAIL BEILIEN GO BLUE!
February 5th, 2019 at 10:40 PM ^
Losing to Purdue on the road is understandable. The last two games are head scratching indeed. Staee will be up for Michigan. There will be nothing easy about that game. It will be an all out war.
February 5th, 2019 at 10:42 PM ^
Hahahahaha
February 5th, 2019 at 10:45 PM ^
Who cares. Now I have to puke again just hearing about those thugs.
February 6th, 2019 at 10:17 AM ^
why choose the word thugs?
February 5th, 2019 at 10:56 PM ^
Another tough week for Angry Smurf
February 5th, 2019 at 11:12 PM ^
K-State with a gratuitous dunk after the clock expired as they beat Kansas. Pretty great.
February 6th, 2019 at 12:11 AM ^
that Kansas loss for sparky ain’t looking good as the year goes on
February 6th, 2019 at 8:06 AM ^
With all due respect (and I have very little for Izzo or Sparty), KU has been totally decimated by injuries since that first game of the year. They're not the same team now.
February 6th, 2019 at 8:23 AM ^
Decimated? They are missing one player--Azubuike--not counting the one the NCAA hasn't let play at all. KU has been underwhelming all season.
February 5th, 2019 at 11:30 PM ^
What an up and down week for Staee fans, first a former QB wins the Super Bowl, now this.
Where did the ribbon go that Tom had on last year?
February 6th, 2019 at 12:06 AM ^
He gave it to John Engler....
February 6th, 2019 at 7:29 AM ^
He sold it to George Perles for $200,000.
February 5th, 2019 at 11:48 PM ^
3 game losing streak for Sparty... yikes
February 6th, 2019 at 12:05 AM ^
suck on deez Izzo bahahahaha
February 6th, 2019 at 1:15 AM ^
Izzo was a whiny little bitch in the post game press conference, as usual.
Gave credit to Illinois because that's what you are supposed to do . . . but not really.
Maybe he does have a point, his players are head-cases.
February 6th, 2019 at 6:13 AM ^
Wonder where they learned that?? Ha, ha!
February 6th, 2019 at 8:48 AM ^
No, here, Izzo is the king of the "head-cases". If his players are head-cases he is the one most responsible for this. Ten games ago this team was playing lights-out...certainly among the best in the nation. This last week is on the coach!!!
February 6th, 2019 at 7:10 AM ^
MSU loses 3 in a row - they might fall from a 2 to a.... 2
M loses twice in 3 weeks and they drop from a 1 to talking about a 3
February 6th, 2019 at 10:44 AM ^
MSU was a 1 before the Purdue loss, they're a 2, maybe a 3 since they're 9th in the net rankings. UM was a 1 before the UW loss and now are a 2 even after the Iowa loss. UM's net ranking is 6th so a solid 2-seed, I've not seen anything where they're a 3-seed.
February 6th, 2019 at 7:12 AM ^
Despite the fact that Izzo has been exposed in recent years as a morally bankrupt weasel, Sparty could take solace in the fact that he won games.
Now they don't even have the winning. What a grim, sad place East Lansing must be these days.
February 6th, 2019 at 8:26 AM ^
I've been saying it for years... Illinois is under rated lol... Izzo is just prepping their guys for March, you know losing to inferior teams on the road...
February 6th, 2019 at 9:02 AM ^
Awesome. Prepping them for another year first weekend exits. I think they've been bounced in the first week of the tournament every year for the last 3-4 years.
Izzo's teams haven't truly achieved in March in a few years.
February 6th, 2019 at 9:33 AM ^
cassius winston is going to EAT. ZAVIER'S. LUNCH.
;-)
February 6th, 2019 at 10:16 AM ^
Sam Webb, is that you??
February 6th, 2019 at 3:30 PM ^
ha! nope!
February 6th, 2019 at 12:08 PM ^
What a great night of college hoops.
#basketballschool
February 6th, 2019 at 12:58 PM ^
Goins hit two huge 3s to get MSU back in it, and Izzo blew a gasket screaming at him when he cane off the court. The look on Goins face was interesting.
February 6th, 2019 at 2:05 PM ^
The "weird guys" myth continues...from TOC
One thing that has to be noted, MSU has had extremely bad luck with injuries over the last decade
Numerous times Izzo’s teams have been robbed of it’s ultimate potential by major injuries to key players.
2008/2009 – Raymar Morgan looked like a potential superstar his freshmen year in 2006/2007 but after his battle with mono he never looked the same and propably never turned into the player he could have been.
2010 – Kalin Lucas goes down in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. MSU still finished an incredible run to the Final Four with backup Korie Lucious stepping up and only losing a closely contested game against Butler (with a horrible no call late). Butler only lost the Final to Duke by two points.
2013 – In Draymond Green’s senior year Branden Dawson went down just before the Tournament. Dawson was the one guy who made a very unathletic MSU team compete with long, athletic opponents. In the end they got outathleted and dominated by the eventual NCAA champs Louisville.
2014 – Keith Appling late season wrist injury forced MSU to almost play 5 on 4 on offense. Spacing was completely killed and one of the most complete MSU teams in recent memory lost a close game against a guard driven UConn team in the Elite Eight.
2017 – MSU lost not one but two big men to season ending injuries before the year even started. While Ben Carter and Gavin Schilling would only have been role players, with their loss MSU never had the size inside or their entire rotation got messed up. The first year of a great freshmen class was basically lost before it began.
2018 – Josh Langford goes down on a team that looked like it could challenge for a national title.Now other teams have to deal with injuries too but I think it is fair to say that Izzo has been dealt a tremendously tough card many times in the last decade. Not to mention that he also lost some of his best players at times during the season (Valentine, Bridges).
February 6th, 2019 at 3:42 PM ^
ow, damn. my eyes just rolled out of my head.
yeah, that miles bridges injury really hurt sparty, seeing as how he missed five games in the non-conference schedule, plus northwestern and minnesota, during his freshman year.
valentine, too - he missed oakland u, then iowa, minnesota, and illinois to start the big ten schedule. that's the entire list. he was healthy enough to play 37 minutes against middle tennessee state, though.
yet another thing i love about john beilein - he doesn't cry crocodile damn tears every time someone gets hurt. next up.