No B1G coach has a winning record against Beilein except Izzo right now
February 12th, 2019 at 3:47 PM ^
I'm thinking that may change this season. Go Blue
February 12th, 2019 at 3:48 PM ^
Excellent! Sweep state twice regular season and a third time in the B1G tournament.
February 12th, 2019 at 7:38 PM ^
Knocks on wood three times.
February 12th, 2019 at 3:50 PM ^
No jinxy!
February 12th, 2019 at 3:51 PM ^
Sweep and beat them in B1G tournament? And NCAA tournament???????
February 12th, 2019 at 4:41 PM ^
Assuming they make it past middle Tennessee state, and that's assuming a lot.
February 12th, 2019 at 5:27 PM ^
Don't forget Weber State
February 12th, 2019 at 6:41 PM ^
Putting Sparty aside for a moment, have any two teams ever played four times in one season in that manner (i.e, two regular season matchups, a conference tournament matchup, and an NCAA tournament matchup)? It's gotta be extraordinarily rare, though I'm thinking it might have happened in the ACC or the old Big East at some point.
February 12th, 2019 at 8:02 PM ^
I do know that MSU beat Wisconsin 4 times in their 2000 run. I focus mostly on B1G basketball so I think that is one of the only times there have been 4 matchups between two teams. I'd have to imagine it has happened in the Big East one of these years too (pre split)
February 12th, 2019 at 8:05 PM ^
That fourth Sparty/UW game was a borderline unwatchable slog.
February 12th, 2019 at 8:06 PM ^
http://rpiratings.com/fourinone.php
It's happened a few times. It actually happened twice with Wisconsin in 2000 lol
February 12th, 2019 at 3:53 PM ^
Fuck him!!
February 12th, 2019 at 3:57 PM ^
The mountains of talent Izzo has had out of high school, compared to what JB has had to work with, Izzo should be 21-0 in the 20 games!
Beilein >>>>>> izzo
February 12th, 2019 at 5:17 PM ^
I think that's a massive disservice to Beilein's recruiting. He's had several better classes than Izzo
February 12th, 2019 at 6:10 PM ^
If you start from when Beilein had his own players M's coach is out ahead. The record is what it is, but Beilein has not been a slouch.
February 12th, 2019 at 4:02 PM ^
Those are gonna be tough games. Michigan needs to find its 3pt shooting legs. Iggy gonna have to play lights out down the stretch as well.
February 12th, 2019 at 4:02 PM ^
Not sure how much weight to put into this statistic given the coaching turnover in the conference the last 2 years. Outside of Izzo, Thad Matta (OSU), Bo Ryan (Wisconsin), and Tom Crean (Indiana) may have the best records against Beilein during his tenure at Michigan, and they are all gone now.
I would be interested to see Beilein's record against all coaches (former and current) he faced in the Big Ten. The coaches during the first 5 years probably racked up some wins while Beilein built. My guess is his record is worst against Matta and Ryan. I think he was 7-14 vs. Matta and 8-8 vs. Crean.
Getting to even against Izzo would be quite an accomplishment considering the head start Izzo had. It did help we had MSU as a single play during Beilein's first two years, but I don't think a game or two changes the math much at this point.
Also, I was a little surprised to learn that he is .500 against Fran McCaffery. It hasn't felt like that, but Michigan has always seemed to have trouble winning in Iowa City.
February 12th, 2019 at 5:06 PM ^
You are right about the 7-14 mark against Matta, and that includes 6 double digit losses.
What a roller coaster of a career for Matta. 5 Big Ten titles in his first 8 years, then tied for 2nd in year 9, and then no better than 5th in any of his last 4 years.
February 12th, 2019 at 5:16 PM ^
Not so much of a roller coaster as as a cliff dive since he didn’t have an up and down swing a couple of times. He was great, great, great, good, dogshit.
February 12th, 2019 at 6:37 PM ^
I would argue that 07/08 and 08/09 were a down swing. Coming off back to back B1G titles and a NCAA runner up they were an NIT team in 07/08 (they did win the NIT) and then a 1st round NCAA loser in 08/09. Finished 5th and t-4th in those 2 years.
Then he reeled off 3 straight Big Ten titles which included 2 Sweet 16s and a Final 4, followed by a 2nd place Big Ten/Elite 8 season.
And then the cliff dive you mentioned after that. So maybe just a couple year lull in the middle of a lot of good I guess.
February 12th, 2019 at 5:20 PM ^
Izzo ran out to a 4-0 start against Beilein, and also went 3-0 in the two years when our backcourt was hobbled (14-15 and 15-16). Basically, when we have a comparable team to theirs, we rarely lose.
February 12th, 2019 at 5:23 PM ^
I'm not sure we beat them with Levert in 2016 (they played a pretty much perfect game against us). I think we would have gotten at least one in 2015 though
February 12th, 2019 at 4:13 PM ^
The way Beilein conducts himself and runs the Michigan basketball program compared to how Izzo runs his program is far greater than any head-to-head record.
However- beating sparty down regularly is an added bonus.
February 12th, 2019 at 4:32 PM ^
Agreed...in the era of "everybody's doing it" being the go to defense for every program's "shortcuts", Beilein is so well-admired by his peers that even Michigan's greatest detractors respect him, the team and how they play the game. Certainly there are always those out there that loathe everything Michigan (including detesting Coach B for being Blue), but as much as State or OSU fans revile the maize and blue, I never hear anything but respect (and better yet fear from some) for Beilein these days from anyone that I talk to in Spartan country, which is a credit to who he is as a person, teacher, mentor and representative of our school.
February 12th, 2019 at 5:46 PM ^
Someone needs to create a formula for "dirt-adjusted winning percentage." Beilein might be #1 all-time amongst NCAAM basketball coaches.
February 12th, 2019 at 4:14 PM ^
"Hello Darkness, my old friend."
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February 12th, 2019 at 6:03 PM ^
now that's a punchable face if i ever saw one
February 12th, 2019 at 7:12 PM ^
That's a priceless gif!!!! Excellent Simon and Garfunkel reference. GO BLUE ?
February 12th, 2019 at 4:14 PM ^
And Beilein didn't beat him until the Aneurysm of Leadership, if I recall. So like 9-4 lately?
February 12th, 2019 at 4:14 PM ^
I don’t know if we turn it around this year, but it will happen if Izzo doesnt retire soon.
February 12th, 2019 at 4:19 PM ^
And, let us not forget that when Beilein took over Michigan in 2007, Izzo had already been at MSU since 1995. His program was already in full swing, Beilein had to completely overhaul a program that had been lifeless for a decade.
February 12th, 2019 at 5:08 PM ^
To some of the points above:
if you take out Beilein’s first 3 years (in which he was 0-4), he’s 9-7 since. My guess is if you take out his first 3 years he’s got a winning record against almost every B1G team
February 12th, 2019 at 5:58 PM ^
Maybe not OSU and Wisconsin. They always seem to beat us, even in our great seasons.
February 13th, 2019 at 2:13 AM ^
I believe Beilin is 6-17 against Wisconsin, combination of Bo and Gard.
February 12th, 2019 at 6:01 PM ^
wow so cool
February 12th, 2019 at 6:02 PM ^
cool pool tool
February 12th, 2019 at 6:02 PM ^
John "Sun Tzu of Basketball" Beilein.
the "Shame of Iron Mountain" needs to lose a few more...
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
February 12th, 2019 at 7:37 PM ^
Hell yes it does!
GO BLUE!!!!!