The egg that PSU laid in East Lansing last night showed up in the power rankings this morning. The Lions dropped two spots from eighth place to tenth. Effectively, Iowa, Michigan, and PSU are in a tie for eighth with only thousandths of points separating the three. # Team Pace Off Def Pwr Rank 1 [...]
Archive of entries posted on February 2008
Four Factor Analysis Tool (PSU at MSU)
Not too many surprises here. As usual, Penn State’s defensive efficiency stands out as being far worse that their opponents. In their game here in Happy Valley, PSU was surprisingly able to step up their pressure on MSU’s guards, Drew Neitzel especially, forcing MSU into a pretty poor shooting night, particularly from beyond the arc [...]
Game Predictions 02/20/08
Two games that feature teams from the bottom of the conference against teams at the top. Ordinarily, one wouldn’t expect much from either but both these games could provide some interest. Penn State upset MSU two weeks ago in Happy Valley so there’s hope for the Nittany Lions. Illinois has continued to have a strong [...]
Welcome to PSU Cammeron Woodyard
PSU received a verbal commitment from Cammeron Woodyard, a 6’5″ shooting guard from Winters Mill High School in Westminster MD. Cammeron had flown under the radar of most programs because, prior to this season, he had been a post player. Not many D1 programs are interested in 6’5″ posts (Jamelle Cornley notwithstanding). However, Winters Mill [...]
Game Predictions 02/19/08
Two games tonight with the marquis matchup being Purdue at Indiana with first place in the B10 conference at stake. Northwestern also visits Iowa. Game Predictions: Indiana 70 Purdue 64 Iowa 64 Northwestern 55
Purdue climbs another spot in the power rankings
This week they slip past Michigan State into the third spot and number 22 nationally. Matt Painter has a stranglehold lock on the Big Ten coach of the year award and is making a huge bid for that honor nationally. Almost as amazingly, Illinois continues to maintain a strong power ranking climbing six spots nationally [...]
How easily are you offended?
It appears there are some quite sensitive people in Bloomington Indiana. I first read this story in this Indy Star column: And to think, while a corrupt coach was leading IU onto the floor to play Wisconsin, Assembly Hall security had nothing better to do than force a fan to take off a shirt reading [...]
