A Good Week For Spartan Nation
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After the amazing win this past weekend over Michigan on the gridiron, it was nice to see the Spartans take Duke to task last night over in Chicago. This is actually the first Michigan State basketball game I have been able to watch this season due to their recent partnership with Peacock Network, and to say I am excited is an understatement.
Despite the football win this past weekend, it's safe to say the Spartan football teams season is over. They just haven't been great this year, so a bowl game likely isn't in the cards for them.
However, with basketball season heating up, there is a bit of a buzz. I haven't seen this much energy from Michigan State basketball team in quite some time. I'm kind of getting ahead of myself here, but in their 79 to 73 win over number 2 Duke last night, the number 5 Spartans didn't trail the Blue Devils the entire game. They took control early and held onto it throughout.
For now though, let's look back to last Thursday. There were eight games in the top 25, and none of them were upsets. That actually isn't surprising. Besides a few challenge games and those holiday tournaments they play, most of the games this time of year are usually cupcake games.
Friday there were nine games in the top 25, and also none of those were upsets. I should point out that number 16 Michigan faced off against number 4 Connecticut and got beat 85 to 77.
Saturday there were only two games in the top 25, and neither of those were upsets either.
Sunday there were four games in the top 25 and while we did get to see a ranked match up between number 12 Arkansas and number 9 Virginia, UVA easily won that game 91 to 72 over the Razorbacks.
Monday gave us another five games in the top 25. Which also gave us another day of no upsets. I should point out, number 11 Tennessee played my nieces school Radford, but the volunteers won that game 70 to 47.
Which brings us to last night where there were eight games in the top 25 which gave us our first taste of upsets. Florida remains in the top spot with a win over Florida State 81 to 72, but then we have the number 5 Michigan State win over number 2 Duke 79 to 73.
Despite their upset loss to number 16 Texas Tech 84 to 78, I still think number 3 Illinois is going to be one of our toughest opponents in the Big Ten this season. They have a strong team they have been building on since last year.
Finally, the only other game of note last night was number 15 Kansas taking on number 24 Kentucky. Kansas won that game by a twenty point margin 89 to 69.
If I had to pick a team to keep my eye on early this season besides the Spartans, it would be Virginia.
Do your own research of course!
Despite the football win this past weekend, it's safe to say the Spartan football teams season is over. They just haven't been great this year, so a bowl game likely isn't in the cards for them.
However, with basketball season heating up, there is a bit of a buzz. I haven't seen this much energy from Michigan State basketball team in quite some time. I'm kind of getting ahead of myself here, but in their 79 to 73 win over number 2 Duke last night, the number 5 Spartans didn't trail the Blue Devils the entire game. They took control early and held onto it throughout.
For now though, let's look back to last Thursday. There were eight games in the top 25, and none of them were upsets. That actually isn't surprising. Besides a few challenge games and those holiday tournaments they play, most of the games this time of year are usually cupcake games.
Friday there were nine games in the top 25, and also none of those were upsets. I should point out that number 16 Michigan faced off against number 4 Connecticut and got beat 85 to 77.
Saturday there were only two games in the top 25, and neither of those were upsets either.
Sunday there were four games in the top 25 and while we did get to see a ranked match up between number 12 Arkansas and number 9 Virginia, UVA easily won that game 91 to 72 over the Razorbacks.
Monday gave us another five games in the top 25. Which also gave us another day of no upsets. I should point out, number 11 Tennessee played my nieces school Radford, but the volunteers won that game 70 to 47.
Which brings us to last night where there were eight games in the top 25 which gave us our first taste of upsets. Florida remains in the top spot with a win over Florida State 81 to 72, but then we have the number 5 Michigan State win over number 2 Duke 79 to 73.
Despite their upset loss to number 16 Texas Tech 84 to 78, I still think number 3 Illinois is going to be one of our toughest opponents in the Big Ten this season. They have a strong team they have been building on since last year.
Finally, the only other game of note last night was number 15 Kansas taking on number 24 Kentucky. Kansas won that game by a twenty point margin 89 to 69.
If I had to pick a team to keep my eye on early this season besides the Spartans, it would be Virginia.
Do your own research of course!
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