On the other hand, Southern Indiana ranked 285th (out of 363 teams) in KenPom’s adjusted efficiency margin last season. There were so many aspects of the bout where if the Spartans had cleaned their game up, they would have ran away with a win without much resistance. And that is not even including their abysmal 62% shooting from the free-throw line, where they left 14 points on the board. Had the Spartans even had a moderately decent shooting game, they probably would have ran away with the win and could have even covered the spread still. Michigan State was one of the best shooting teams last season, so this doesn’t even make sense, especially since they only lost one key shooter (Joey Hauser.) Hauser shot at an extremely high percentage, but so did a few other guys for the Spartans. Still, let’s take a deeper look at this matchup and see if their struggles could be a trend, or if that game was more likely just a “one-off” game.įor one, the Spartans shot an unthinkably poor 1-for-20 from behind the arc, giving them a 5% chance of hitting a three-pointer every time they launched one. The Spartans got embarrassed on their home floor in front of a boatload of fans eager for their fourth-ranked team in the nation to show what they are made of. Michigan State’s inexplicable “buy game” loss to the James Madison Dukes should light a fire underneath it.
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