hhcmatt Posted February 15, 2014 Report Posted February 15, 2014 Other than a weird beat down by North Carolina earlier in the season, Michigan St other 3 losses have been by five or less. Since that Carolina game, they haven't scored under 70 points at home. The most points that the Huskers have scored in a true road game was 67 at Creighton. Mich St has had 3 starters out with injury for games this year. Currently Keith Appling and Branden Dawson are out and won't play on Sunday. Mich St does about everything well except draw contact on offense and get to the free throw line. Quote
AuroranHusker Posted February 15, 2014 Report Posted February 15, 2014 Interesting sidebar to the UNC-MSU series: Roy Williams is 7-0 versus Tom Izzo. Quote
Swan88 Posted February 15, 2014 Report Posted February 15, 2014 Hoping for a respectable performance by the Huskers . . . none of this first half blowout problem again! Quote
HuskerFever Posted February 15, 2014 Report Posted February 15, 2014 Realistically..... what's a "win" for us? Keep it close for 30 minutes? Keep it within single digits? Showing "progress" even when the game is out of reach? Quote
hhcmatt Posted February 15, 2014 Author Report Posted February 15, 2014 Realistically..... what's a "win" for us? Keep it close for 30 minutes? Keep it within single digits? Showing "progress" even when the game is out of reach? I suppose fans will take a close loss to mean good things should happen the rest of the season and a blowout means that we could be in trouble. A win would have people going crazy. Quote
Norm Peterson Posted February 15, 2014 Report Posted February 15, 2014 Early line has MSU -13.5 Ooooh. That would be a tempting bet to take. With two starters out and us playing as well as we have been? I mean, I don't think they even beat Northwestern by that much. IIRC, they beat Northwestern by 13. Quote
AuroranHusker Posted February 15, 2014 Report Posted February 15, 2014 Early line has MSU -13.5 Ooooh. That would be a tempting bet to take. With two starters out and us playing as well as we have been? I mean, I don't think they even beat Northwestern by that much. IIRC, they beat Northwestern by 13. MSU beat NW 85-70 the other day... Quote
throwback Posted February 16, 2014 Report Posted February 16, 2014 NU is 9-2 against the spread in B1G games this season, but just 1-2 ATS when a double digit underdog. And NU is 1-4 against the number as a double digit road underdog this season in all games. NU was 3-6 against the spread as a double digit road underdog last season, so that makes Coach Miles 4-10 against the number as a double digit road dog while at NU and 0-14 outright. The good news -- one of those 4 "wins" against the number came last year at Michigan State, a 66-56 outright loss as an 18-point underdog. NU also played MSU within 9 points at home last season, so Coach Miles has kept it at least respectable vs Izzo in both meetings previously. Quote
uneblinstu Posted February 16, 2014 Report Posted February 16, 2014 NU is 9-2 against the spread in B1G games this season, but just 1-2 ATS when a double digit underdog. And NU is 1-4 against the number as a double digit road underdog this season in all games. NU was 3-6 against the spread as a double digit road underdog last season, so that makes Coach Miles 4-10 against the number as a double digit road dog while at NU and 0-14 outright. The good news -- one of those 4 "wins" against the number came last year at Michigan State, a 66-56 outright loss as an 18-point underdog. NU also played MSU within 9 points at home last season, so Coach Miles has kept it at least respectable vs Izzo in both meetings previously. Same thing happened at Michigan last year. But this team is very different from those teams. They haven't really demonstrated the toughness on the road that last year's did. I hope they do tomorrow, but they haven't really done it yet vs. our highest end opponents. Quote
nuled2dance Posted February 16, 2014 Report Posted February 16, 2014 Must start strong as we have said on here. A 10-2 deficit will spell trouble for the mindset....start strong and anything can happen. Love to see Ray go off...need a senior moment from him Quote
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