March Madness
March Madness started this past weekend and our very own Michigan State University was a number one seed. They earned this number one seed after beating the number seven ranked Ohio State University in the Big Ten Championship game. They won with a score of 72-70 in a very close game. In the first game of “The Big Dance” they played the Long Island University Brooklyn Blackbirds. Despite struggling in the first half they won convincingly with a score of 89-67. Draymond Green played particularly well and had a triple double while scoring 24 points, pulling down 12 rebounds, and racking up 12 assists.
The next round, MSU played the Saint Louis Billikens. It was a bit of a struggle but they won with a score of 65-61. Draymond Green recorded a double double while scoring 16 points and pulling down 13 rebounds. He also added 6 assists. Keith Appling also played decently well and he scored 19 points. He also added 3 assists and 3 rebounds. MSU didn’t play incredibly well but they still came out with a win. At times they struggled and they had 11 turnovers throughout the game. They also recorded 19 personal fouls although in my opinion the refs were not very good and were a bit one sided on their calls.
Next round Michigan State plays Louisville. Louisville is a number four seed. They got the four seed after finishing in the Big East with a record of 28-9 and a conference record of 10-8. Louisville’s top scorer is Kyle Kuric who averages 13.1 points per game. Their top rebounder is Gorgui Dieng. He averages 9.1 rebounds per game. He also adds 9.4 points per game. It should be a very tough game but I think that we can win. If we do win, we will play either Marquette or Florida. Both of those teams are pretty good and should be very tough wins. After we beat them we’ll be in the Final Four. This would be another Final Four for Tom Izzo.
One another note, this March Madness had plenty of surprised. Two of the biggest were two number fifteen seeded teams in Lehigh and Norfolk State beating Duke and Missouri respectively. UNC Asheville also almost beat Syracuse and would have been the first sixteen seed to beat a one seed. They probably should have won but the refs gave the game to Syracuse would a bunch of bad calls