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  1. Watch your ass, Morgantown. East Lansing is coming for the couch-burning title. “MSU basketball losses and couch fires have coincided since at least 1999, when students and residents in East Lansing rioted following a Spartans loss in the Final Four. Similar incidents much smaller in scale have occurred since, in tandem with MSU wins and losses.” http://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/index.ssf/2013/03/live_coverage_police_in.html

    Watch your ass, Morgantown. East Lansing is coming for the couch-burning title.

    “MSU basketball losses and couch fires have coincided since at least 1999, when students and residents in East Lansing rioted following a Spartans loss in the Final Four. Similar incidents much smaller in scale have occurred since, in tandem with MSU wins and losses.”

    http://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/index.ssf/2013/03/live_coverage_police_in.html

  2. “Tom Izzo and the Michigan State Spartans are at it again.  The Spartans have lost just once in 2013 (at Indiana), and they play the Hoosiers tonight in a heavy-weight tilt in East Lansing.  IU and MSU are tied at the top of a strong Big Ten conference.  All this considered, Michigan State joins IU, Miami-FL, and Florida as a No. 1 seed in today’s bracket.  Duke, Michigan, Gonzaga, and Louisville (among others) are chasing. Those four fall into spots five through eight on the current s-curve.  Kansas and Syracuse could also re-enter the No. 1 seed debate over the next few weeks.  Arizona has fallen off a bit, but it’s not impossible for the Wildcats to regain some traction if they win out.” (via Michigan State grabs No. 1 seed in latest bracket projection | CollegeBasketballTalk)

    “Tom Izzo and the Michigan State Spartans are at it again.  The Spartans have lost just once in 2013 (at Indiana), and they play the Hoosiers tonight in a heavy-weight tilt in East Lansing.  IU and MSU are tied at the top of a strong Big Ten conference.  All this considered, Michigan State joins IU, Miami-FL, and Florida as a No. 1 seed in today’s bracket.  Duke, Michigan, Gonzaga, and Louisville (among others) are chasing. Those four fall into spots five through eight on the current s-curve.  Kansas and Syracuse could also re-enter the No. 1 seed debate over the next few weeks.  Arizona has fallen off a bit, but it’s not impossible for the Wildcats to regain some traction if they win out.”

    (via Michigan State grabs No. 1 seed in latest bracket projection | CollegeBasketballTalk)

  3. A reader wants help identifying this player, seen in the latest NCAA March Madness video. His jersey tells us definitively that he’s a Spartan, and it looks like his number starts with 3. On last year’s roster, that leaves only Brandon Wood, but if the NCAA used players from past seasons, that opens up the possibilities. The face isn’t immediately tripping my memory, so if some of you MSU bloggers out there can give me (and anon) the definite answer, then this whole Tumblr thing will have been proven worthwhile. Right?

    A reader wants help identifying this player, seen in the latest NCAA March Madness video. His jersey tells us definitively that he’s a Spartan, and it looks like his number starts with 3. On last year’s roster, that leaves only Brandon Wood, but if the NCAA used players from past seasons, that opens up the possibilities.

    The face isn’t immediately tripping my memory, so if some of you MSU bloggers out there can give me (and anon) the definite answer, then this whole Tumblr thing will have been proven worthwhile. Right?

  4. "

    “I don’t know if it’s us as players, I don’t know if it’s Michigan State, I just don’t know what it is,” Nix told reporters on Thursday. “I just feel like none of us get credit.

    “If Michigan would have won, Trey Burke would have been God, Tim Hardaway would have been God, Glenn Robinson would have been God … we won, and they didn’t even show our highlights, it’s pitiful.”

    "

    ― Derrick Nix believes Michigan State is still being overlooked | CollegeBasketballTalk

  5. “We did it again. We forgot about Tom Izzo and Michigan State. The consensus this season has been that the Big Ten is a race that’s going to come down to Indiana and Michigan. But here we are a week into February and it’s the Spartans that are sitting all alone in first place after their 78-65 win over Purdue in Mackey Arena on Saturday afternoon.” (via Michigan State moves into sole possession of 1st in the B1G race | CollegeBasketballTalk)

    “We did it again.

    We forgot about Tom Izzo and Michigan State.

    The consensus this season has been that the Big Ten is a race that’s going to come down to Indiana and Michigan. But here we are a week into February and it’s the Spartans that are sitting all alone in first place after their 78-65 win over Purdue in Mackey Arena on Saturday afternoon.”

    (via Michigan State moves into sole possession of 1st in the B1G race | CollegeBasketballTalk)

  6. “With the Michigan State backcourt already thinned out by injury, the Spartans needed freshman Gary Harris in the lineup Wednesday against No. 18 Minnesota. Though at times visibly in pain from back spasms, Harris fought to score 15 key points, including a big layup plus the foul with 1:35 remaining to lift No. 8 Michigan State to a 61-50 win over the Gophers at Breslin Center in Lansing, Mich. Harris also finished 4-of-8 from three-point range, but the biggest concern came with under a minute to go when starting point guard and captain Keith Appling went down in pain with what appeared to be a shoulder injury. He was taken to the locker room, but returned to the bench a short time later. He did not re-enter the game and an update on the extent of his injury will be provided as it becomes available. He finished with 14 points and three assists.” (via Keith Appling injures shoulder as No. 8 Michigan State beats No. 18 Minnesota | CollegeBasketballTalk)

    “With the Michigan State backcourt already thinned out by injury, the Spartans needed freshman Gary Harris in the lineup Wednesday against No. 18 Minnesota.

    Though at times visibly in pain from back spasms, Harris fought to score 15 key points, including a big layup plus the foul with 1:35 remaining to lift No. 8 Michigan State to a 61-50 win over the Gophers at Breslin Center in Lansing, Mich.

    Harris also finished 4-of-8 from three-point range, but the biggest concern came with under a minute to go when starting point guard and captain Keith Appling went down in pain with what appeared to be a shoulder injury. He was taken to the locker room, but returned to the bench a short time later.

    He did not re-enter the game and an update on the extent of his injury will be provided as it becomes available. He finished with 14 points and three assists.”

    (via Keith Appling injures shoulder as No. 8 Michigan State beats No. 18 Minnesota | CollegeBasketballTalk)

  7. @diamond83 is on an overseas adventure with the Spartans. “RAMSTEIN AIR BASE — Michigan State center Derrick Nix doesn’t like flying, so during a unique team charter on a C-130 transport plane, he took a barf bag and used it to simulate an oxygen mask.” (via Michigan State takes flight on military transport plane, visits the troops before Armed Forces Classic | MLive.com)

    @diamond83 is on an overseas adventure with the Spartans.

    “RAMSTEIN AIR BASE — Michigan State center Derrick Nix doesn’t like flying, so during a unique team charter on a C-130 transport plane, he took a barf bag and used it to simulate an oxygen mask.”

    (via Michigan State takes flight on military transport plane, visits the troops before Armed Forces Classic | MLive.com)

  8. (via Tom Izzo’s Midnight Madness entrance video | CollegeBasketballTalk)

    I’ll be honest. When I saw a photo of Izzo in a flight suit, I thought he was declaring a premature “Mission Accomplished” on the Spartans’ season like George Bush did on the Iraq war.

  9. sportsfromaspartan: Breslin got a paint job.

    sportsfromaspartan:

    Breslin got a paint job.