OT(?): Indiana locks up B1G Regular Season Title
Surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet, but Indiana beat Iowa tonight 81-78. They have locked up the (outright) B1G regular season title. Just glad Sparty didn't win it...
MSU had less basketball success than we did before Izzo...don't tell me it isn't possible to win like we do in football! And you realize we are severely lagging in the success department in both sports for basically 20 years right? That just may have something to do with why we always want to fire the coach. No...it's not that we've lost to OSU every year but three since the turn of the century in football and they've played in 4 national title games or that MSU has been to six final fours in basketball...we just like to complain.
You keep thinking that Matta is dirty...just like every other coach that consistently beats us. Usually basketball programs tend to hire up and coming coaches that turn into great ones. That's not my job to decide who that is but Archie Miller certainly looks promising. It worked otu for Texas with Shaka Smart.
it's fine that you are happy with mediocre seasons. He caught lightning in a bottle 2 out of his 9 years. I'm not saying I'm more of a fan than you because I want UM bball to be on par with MSU, Duke, UK, KU and UNC. If you're happy with making the tourney 5 times in 10 years and getting past the first weekend 2 out of those 5, more power to you.
I love/loved Lloyd Carr, too. I also recognized when it was time to move on.
I didn't hear a whole lot of people calling for Carr's head after 2006 is all I'm saying. Very little has changed about Beilein from a coaching and recruiting perspective; if you want to fire him because he's "lost it" or whatever, then you are focusing on the last 2 years. Which is fine, but if he bounces back and the team makes, I don't know, the Sweet 16 next year, then I expect those same people to call even louder for his head because he's a year older.
see this team next year - adding whatever freshmen - as being a lock for the tourney? I sure as hell don't. The D won't fix itself and our "bigs" won't suddenly become Shaq. Or even Shaq's jock strap, for that matter.
Junior Donnal is still not good enough...he was getting abused during the OSU game.
It doesn't really matter what he scored since he couldn't stop anybody down low...they had 48 in the paint. There's more to basketball than offense...but Beilein or you wouldn't know that.
And he is a junior...it says so right here. http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/mark_donnal_847504.html
