This wasn't how I wanted to be reminded of the 2013 Final Four team.
Michigan's loss to end the regular season at Michigan State didn't cost them a Big Ten title, unlike 2013's finale, but there are some parallels. This team has now dropped two of their last three and is suddenly dealing with injury scares; Eli Brooks returned to the bench in a walking boot after rolling his right ankle while landing on Marcus Bingham and Franz Wagner reportedly limped off the floor after an awkward landing on his shot attempt just after the final buzzer.
The 2013 squad had the order the other way around. They started 20-1 but lost starting center Jordan Morgan to a badly sprained ankle that either kept him out or limited his effectiveness for much of the rest of the season. That team lost five of their last ten regular season games, one to a bad Penn State team, before falling apart in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals against Wisconsin.
Those parallels feel less comforting giv
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Mar. 6—To say Sunday afternoon will be bizarre for Joshua Langford might be an understatement. When Michigan State hosts Michigan at the Breslin Center, it will be Senior Day, and Langford, technically, is a senior, the only one on the Spartans' roster. But there will likely be no Senior Day festivities. After all, only a handful of parents will be in the building, anyway. And, of course, .
Norsemen Best Minotauros in OT
ST. CLOUD The St. Cloud Norsemen secured another Friday night win in overtime, beating the Minot Minotauros 4-3.
The Norsemen opened up a nice lead in the first period. St. Cloud scored two unanswered goals to move ahead of the Minotauros.
Minot scored their first goal early in the second period to close the gap to 2-1. The Norsemen lit the lamp for the third time and extended their lead to 3-1. The Minotauros notched one more before the period ended to cut their deficit to 3-2.
The Minotauros tied the game again with the only goal of the third period, sending it into overtime. In the extra period, it was the Norsemen who had the final say. St. Cloud scored the game-winning goal at the 54-second mark to come out on top.
THE OVERVIEW
It s those guys again, just a little down the road and with a championship locked up this time.
The stakes for the Spartans remain high. They re the last at-large in the Bracket Matrix field, which hasn t yet been updated for them getting whooped yesterday. Bart Torvik s updated projections also have them as the last team to make it, though that means only a 22.3% chance of securing an at-large bid. They need a win on Sunday or they ll need to make some noise in the Big Ten Tournament to not be sweating out every one-bid conference s tournament.
Speaking of the BTT, Michigan is obviously locked into the one-seed, which means they re keeping an eye on Thursday s 8/9 matchup. MSU is currently projected as the nine-seed and would stay there with a win and/or an Indiana loss to Purdue on Saturday afternoon. If MSU loses and Indiana wins, however, the Hoosiers would jump the Spartans and knock them down to the ten-seed.