Spartyfreude - Basketball Rivalries
I know we've talked about the rank of football rivalries in the past, but I don't think we have ranked basketball rivalries yet.
I bring this up because, going into the Wisconsin-Sparty game, I was definitely rooting for Sparty to lose. I know that we dislike Wisconsin, but I hate Izzo SO MUCH more. This got me to thinking where other MGoBloggers would rank their hate for some of our rivals.
Here is my list:
1) Sparty
2) Indiana
2a) OSU (because Ohio)
4) Wisconsin
5-12) Doesn't really matter
Obviously Rutgers and Maryland are near the bottom, but other than that, I don't have any strong feelings about the other teams.
Duke
OSU
Not much else gets me fired up except wanting a win
March 16th, 2015 at 12:18 PM ^
Or everyone I know who aren't Duke or Kentucky fans.
Michigan State is far and away the most talked about opponent on this board.
state
OSU/IU
Illinois
Illini? Really? Why?
March 15th, 2015 at 10:16 PM ^
Every Illini fan I ever met says the same thing when they find out I am a Michigan fan.... You know Higgins was over the back!!
One idiot wanted to fight me over it at Mardi Gras in St Louis 1998. I just laughed at him!!
Sparty
Duke
IU
OSU
Illini
March 15th, 2015 at 10:33 PM ^
that's the thing. Michigan is one of Illinois' rivals, but it doesn't really go both ways. Not since the 80's, anyway. My wife and her siblings are all U of I grads and, because of them, many of my friends are U of I grads. They acknowledge that they hate Michigan, but that we're not really rivals in any real sense of the word.
Illinois fans hate Michigan. It's easy to hate them back.
1.) Sparty Home
1.) Sparty Away
2.) Ohio
Crean is a unlikable, but not a rival to me. Some might say Duke but we never play nor beat them enough.
I bet you've never even had a rum ham. 
Two or three?
msu, osu
Indiana might say - purdue, msu...then maybe mich/kentucky/illinois
NJIT?
Hated teams:
Both sports:
MSU
Ohio
Disliked teams:
Football:
Penn State
Alabama
Florida State
Notre Dame
Basketball:
Wisconsin
Duke
Kentucky
Indiana
1) MSU
2) Ohio State
3) Wisconsin (I went to HS in Madison during Alvarez's ressurection of that AD and have always rooted against them).
4) Duke
5) IU/Crean for what he did to Jeff Meyer
...which is why I created the ND basketball thread, seems like it would be a good idea to start playing ND in basketball and play them on 2 years off 2 years in football.
Anyway...
Basketball
- MSU
- OSU
- Duke
Football
- OSU
- MSU
- ND
...kind of easy actually.
I'd put Duke ahead of OSU in the basketball rivalry, but that's pretty much it.
I don't want to play Notre Dame in anything ever again. Football, basketball, ice hockey, swimming, rowing etc. Make them spend millions traveling to Virginia and Florida for their ACC games.
They gave us a piece of paper at gametime to tell us that we were no longer going to be playing in the future. If Bo was still AD we wouldn't be playing them in any of our 27 sports unless they had a change of leadership or stopped being pompous assholes. Personally, I'm more excited to play at places like Texas or Oklahoma instead of a perennial matchup with a 8-4/9-3 ND team.
March 15th, 2015 at 10:08 PM ^
Because Duke is in my top 2. Maybe in my top 1.
Don't like Indiana and Duke, and want to beat them badly. And vice versa. But I don't think we can call them rivals. They wouldn't call us their "rival".
It seems like when you grow up near a place you learn to hate them more than anything. I grew up in east lansing and grew up hating MSU basketball because of Izzo and how he's the best basketball coach ever period according to the media. I've always hated their football team since they rooted against us every game more than they rooted for their own team when they sucked in the early 2000s. They couldn't stand that we were playing in the game of the century for a national championship while their team was 4-8. Give that fanbase a better football team and they are even more unbearable than before. You would have thought no other team had won a Rose Bowl before 2014 living in Lansing. The mismanagement of our athletic department in the various facets such as basketball and football since 2000 has really bothered me more than it should have. I'm glad that we've finally gotten some breaks our way such as Hackett and Harbaugh. Hopefully some of the other things like football/basketball injuries start to go our way too so we can start beating them regularly in both sports.
- Temple
- CMU
- Ferris St.
- Manchester United
- San Jose Sharks
- University of Phoenix
- Great Britain
1) MSU
2) OSU
3) Duke
4) Syracuse
5) Indiana
For Football
1) OSU
2) MSU
3) ND
4) PSU
MSU, then OSU a bit farther down, then really nobody else. IU fans are annoying, but given that they have no real other sport success to fall back on, I don't blame them for being pretentious about basketball.
Sparty
NJIT
EMU
Sparty was up by almost 10 and seemed to have the hot hand and it looked like they were going to win. I turned it off as I didn't want to see the izzo smirky post game interview. Checked the score later and was pleasantly surprised to see Wisconsin won.
you missed an insane run by wisconsin that stretched from the late second half through OT
Michigan state
Indiana
Ohio state
Wisconsin
Iowa
Minnesota
Penn state
Maryland
Purdue
Illinois
Nebraska
Rutgers
Northwestern
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1) Sparty and Notre Lame and their fans - even idiots who just wear their hat at the mall
2) Ohio - the entire state
3) Professional soccer - worldwide and their obnoxious fans
4) SEC anything
5) Vancouver Canucks
6) New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals
7) The entire city of Chicago
8) Peanut butter
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1) Sparty - Nothing is more satisfying in the game of basketball than to watch us beat Izzo and his merry band of hooligans. Especially when we're able to do it on their court and watch Stauskas blow kisses to the entire arena. I can watch the clip of Trey Burke pickpocketing Keith Appling all day and it will never get old.
2) OSU - because obviously. It feels so great and satisfying to watch our team of unheralded freshmen beat up on their team of blue chippers. If we can't beat their football team, beating their basketball team is the next best thing. If Beilein can ever recruit like Matta, we'd run them off the court every year.
3) Wisconsin - These past two years have made me really respect Bo Ryan as a coach, but I still can't think of him and his team without thinking of them sinking buzzer beaters on us, that damn ginger kid from a few years ago, and up until essentially this year, Ryan's boring and bland style of play that felt like it was ruining the game of basketball. I hope they win a title this year, but I hate losing to those guys.
4) IU - I don't consider them a rival, and I don't really dislike IU as a program. I just think their coach is a total asshat. That shit he pulled on our court two years ago made him look like an immature five year old, and I've lost all respect for him as a result. He's the definition of an underacheiver with all the talent he's able to bring in, and I bet he gets run out of town before too long.
Was tempted to put Duke or Kentucky on here, but we hardly ever play them, and even when we do we barely ever beat them. And honestly, I don't really have any ill will towards those programs anyway.
1) I love Michigan
2-N) Who cares. Why hate. It distracts from loving Michigan.
March 15th, 2015 at 10:01 PM ^
Basketball:
1) MSU
1a)Ohio
2)Indiana
3) John Calipari
4) everyone else