MSU basketball against Oregon at Big Ten tournament: prediction, television, bets

MSU enters the tournament healthy and a lot to do. The Spartans ended the regular season of the Big Ten as No. 1 team of the league in defensive efficiency, 3-point defense, block rate and rumbling at both ends. The Spartans are probably included in the NCAA tournament in a No. 2 seed, based on the Bracketology projections, but a few more victories this weekend could test this. Remember that the big ten tournament championship game is too late to take into account the NCAA tournament seed. Another reason why this tournament is very secondary in the regular season.

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• Oregon Update: The ducks defeated Indiana on Thursday afternoon in their first game at the Big Ten tournament to achieve the quarter -final game against the Spartans. Oregon has not lost in East Lansing since February 8. That was the end of a five-game defeat for the ducks. Since then, they have won eight in a row, including a victory in Wisconsin, when the Badgers were the hottest team of the big ten. Now this title belongs to the Spartans and ducks. Oregon is projected somewhere 5 seeds in the NCAA tournament.

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• Matchup analysis: It took a great second half of MSU and a Hercules effort from Jase Richardson until the Spartans were able to defeat at home in early February. This 29-point performance was Richardson’s first starting path of the disease to Jeremy Fears Jr. On this day and was a real coming-out party for Richardson as MSUS Go-to-type. Both teams have played their best basketball of the season since then. MSU dominated the glass (including 14 rebounds by Jaxon Kohler) and closed the ducks over the 3-point sheet after half-time, which was led by Jaden Akins’ defense of Oregon-Wachmann Jackson Shelstad, who only had four of his 22 points after the break. But the 50-point half of the ducks also occurred and they are able to aggressively be a real problem for MSU. Shelstad has a smoothness and a knack for the shot like few guards in the league. Big Man Nate Bittle, who did very little against MSU the first time, can score inside and outside. This is a talented and capable Oregon team that the country no longer goes through, but instead settled at one point to make an explanation.