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Michigan heads on the road tonight (9:00 p.m., Peacock) to face Michigan State at the Breslin Center. The Wolverines and Spartans have split their rivalry matchups home and away throughout Juwan Howard’s tenure in Ann Arbor, and Michigan hasn’t won in East Lansing since March 3rd, 2018, when Moritz Wagner scored 27 points. Both programs […]
THE ESSENTIALS WHAT #86 Michigan (7-13, 2-7 B10) vs #18 MSU (12-8, 4-5 B10) WHERE Breslin Center East Lansing, MI WHEN 9:00 PM THE LINE Kenpom: MSU-11 Torvik: MSU-10 TELEVISION Peacock (link) THE OVERVIEW Around the same time they were buckling my daughter into the Zamboni last Saturday, and on the opposite end of the lot, the Michigan men's basketball team was doing its own kind of buckling, welcoming new football coach Sherrone Moore with a double-digit promise not to be a distraction. The 10-point home loss to Iowa undid a 10-point win at Carver-Hawkeye, easily Michigan's best conference victory in the last two years. Michigan's now lost three in a row, and eight of their nine. At least the one win in there was a rival, but that's about all their next matchup has in common with uncanny shooting night at home versus Ohio State. In contrast to Michigan and most of the conference, MSU's defense has only been improving over the course of the season. Early losses to James Madison and Nebraska are firmly in the rear view mirror. The Spartans are coming off an 81-66 drubbing in the Trohl Center, but Wisconsin is the other Big Ten team that's managed to rise from the dreck, while Michigan's sinking to the bottom of it. That's not too big of a surprise, considering MSU managed to bring back almost everyone from a team that made it to overtime of the Sweet Sixteen last year. The freshmen who were supposed to provide a boost haven't really done so, but they've got guards coming out of their ears, a pair of seniors in the frontcourt, the Breslin Benefit of the Doubt, and Tom Izzo taking a second stab at his 700th career win. State's rankings are a bit inflated by blowouts against teams ranked closer to 100 than 25, but that's small solace to an incontrovertibly bad Michigan team that will be traveling without Dug. THE US My graphic [click to embiggen]: faq for these graphics Tray Jackson returned, but in a very limited role. Coach Howard noted the play of TWIII and Jace Howard at the three spot, not the injury, was the main reason. THE LINEUP CARD My graphic [click for big]: Note that MSU's scorer notoriously calls everything an assist, so their real assist rates are actually about 75% of what's reported. [After THE JUMP: Izzo goes for 700.]
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Tom Izzo won a national championship when he was 45 years old. He's accomplished many things since 2000, including his induction into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016, but at 68 the longti