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You can probably tell by my name that I may be a little biased here, but laying 5 points with MSU tonight is a losing battle. This game will be UGLY, a grind it out matchup probably decided in the final 30 seconds.
MSU is the public play, nobody has given the Ville a chance for the past month(myself included), and all they do is keep silencing the critics. "The Big East is weak, they can't shoot, etc. etc. etc." The major reasons analysts/public hates the Big East are because it's a miserable style of basketball to watch and is the perennial powerhouse that everyone loves to hate. Nobody wants to see teams shoot 30% from the field and grind the shot clock down to 10 every possession. It's much easier to love on a team like Duke that shoots 40% from the three point line and scores 80 points a game.
The Cards have lost by 5+ points only 4 times this year, three of which include at Kentucky(7), at Marquette(11), and at Syracuse(9). The Marquette loss was avenged in the BET, and Cuse won by only a point at Louisville, where the Cards had a chance to win at the end of the game. The Providence game, well I'll just chalk that one up to the entire team quitting, along with the coach. That game was just an embarrassment.
The fact of the matter is these two teams play a very similar style, with MSU getting a slight edge inside the paint. Louisville has an edge at the guard positions, but that all hinges upon the jekyll/hyde that is Peyton Siva. If he plays like he did in the BET, Louisville wins outright. I think he comes out tight early, loosens up, but then makes some costly mistakes in crunch time. He's not exactly Mr. Clutch. Spartans win by 3 in a snooze fest-play the ML if you like Sparty.
MSU is the public play, nobody has given the Ville a chance for the past month(myself included), and all they do is keep silencing the critics. "The Big East is weak, they can't shoot, etc. etc. etc." The major reasons analysts/public hates the Big East are because it's a miserable style of basketball to watch and is the perennial powerhouse that everyone loves to hate. Nobody wants to see teams shoot 30% from the field and grind the shot clock down to 10 every possession. It's much easier to love on a team like Duke that shoots 40% from the three point line and scores 80 points a game.
The Cards have lost by 5+ points only 4 times this year, three of which include at Kentucky(7), at Marquette(11), and at Syracuse(9). The Marquette loss was avenged in the BET, and Cuse won by only a point at Louisville, where the Cards had a chance to win at the end of the game. The Providence game, well I'll just chalk that one up to the entire team quitting, along with the coach. That game was just an embarrassment.
The fact of the matter is these two teams play a very similar style, with MSU getting a slight edge inside the paint. Louisville has an edge at the guard positions, but that all hinges upon the jekyll/hyde that is Peyton Siva. If he plays like he did in the BET, Louisville wins outright. I think he comes out tight early, loosens up, but then makes some costly mistakes in crunch time. He's not exactly Mr. Clutch. Spartans win by 3 in a snooze fest-play the ML if you like Sparty.
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