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There's no question who The Boss is in
Michigan: Tom Izzo and the Spartans. |
Spartans Show Who's Boss
Spartans coast after Hot Michigan Start
SALINE, MICHIGAN
FEBRUARY 18, 2006
Michigan State withstood a quick Michigan start and slowly
crushed the Wolverines for their 9th straight victory over the Blue
at Breslin Arena. Shannon Brown was the player of the game,
epitomizing the gap in talent the Spartans have over Michigan.
Brown tossed in acrobatic lay-ups and dropped deadly threes to keep
the game out of reach.
The struggling Blue now need an upset win over
Illinois and/or Ohio State to be considered for a NCAA berth.
This is shocking considering where they sat just a couple weeks ago,
firmly planted in the Top 25. But loss to a very weak Purdue
team and bad losses to Ohio State and Iowa have left the Wolverines
wondering what could have been.
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For the Spartans, they have struggled as well but have enough
quality wins to give Tom Izzo a lock on another NCAA bid.
State seems to have the tools to engineer another solid tournament
run if he can get consistency out of Brown and Maurice Ager.
They certainly had it working today, as they rung up 90 on the
defenseless Wolverines. Had they broke 100, that would have
meant half-off big rigs at Paul Revere's Tavern in East Lansing.
More takes:
Son, Clean up Your Act - For those watching
on ESPN, you were treated to some video on pre-game antics when a
drunk Johnny Spirit wannabe somehow was able to get onto the Breslin
Court during the early pregame shoot-around and cause some trouble.
This mess of a young man was clearly stumbling drunk as he was
watching warm-ups, and decided to step closely by Michigan junior
Amadou Ba. Ba was not amused, and stuck his leg out as the guy
walked by. The fool leaned in to say something, and Ba, not
about to listen or smell this fine young man, sent him to the
ground. Shocker, it was confirmed on ESPN several times that
the undergraduate student was given a breathalyzer and failed.
AirGeorgia@umich.edu - Brent Petway received
all kinds of nasty emails from Spartan fans after the first game
between these teams, stemming from a collision between he and Ager.
Tormenting a guy on when he is on the court is one thing, but phone
calls/emails to athletes is way overboard and should be considered a
crime. I know it happens all the time but it is pretty sad.
I'm not singling out Spartan fans; there have been several stories
about Michigan fans sending hate emails to Chad Henne. Wondering
how everyone gets the email address of these guys? No problem,
for whatever reason Michigan publishes a link to its entire
directory on umich.edu.
Check it out. In many cases, the U provides not only
university address, phone and email, but also home addresses and
phone numbers.
Knowing your Audience -
Jim Carty, columnist
for the Ann Arbor News, has really gone after Tommy Amaker this
week, basically saying this is going to work out for Michigan or
Amaker, and that the Duke grad just doesn't get it. I was
actually looking forward to Carty's take this morning, but instead
he wrote a piece on the reshuffling of Michigan's football coaching
staff!
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Michigan basketball Sanctions
MSU
Crushes Michigan in Ann Arbor in 2004
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Wolverines, again, in 2004 hoops
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