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

• What: No. 1 Seed Michigan State against No. 8-Seed Oregon, Big Ten tournament quarter-finals

• When: Friday at noon

• Where: Banker Life Fieldhouse, Indianapolis

TV/radio: Big ten Network/Spartan Sports Network Radio, including WJIM 1240-am and WMMQ 94.9-fm; Siriusxm ch. 84

• Records/rankings: The MSU is 26-5 and won the big ten with a 17: 3 conference brand, is in 6th place in the coaches survey and in the survey of Associated Press No. 7 and is No. 8 Pro College-Basketball Analytics website, Kenpom.com and No. 10 in the NECAA Netto rankings. Oregon 24-8 Overall, the regular Big Ten season ended 12: 8 and is in 23rd place from AP and is the first team of the coaching survey. The ducks are national No. 32 per Kenpom and No. 28 in the net ranking.

• Wetting line: MSU -5.5

• Trainer: State Michigan -Tom Izzo is 732-300 with the Spartans in his 30th season as head coach. Oregon – Dana Altman is 779-401 in 36 seasons as head coach of NCAA Division I, including 369-160 in 15 seasons with the ducks. Previously, he trained 16 seasons in Creighton after he was shorter in Kansas State and Marshall and in the Juco ranks.

• Series: MSU leads 3-2 ever. They have only played twice since 1988. The MSU won on February 8 on February 8 at the Breslin Center at the 2022 PK85 tournament in Portland, Oregon, and then a month ago.

Projected constellations

MSU

C (10) Szymon Zapala (7-0) 4.7

F (0) Jaxon Kohler (6-9) 8.1

G (3) Jaden Akins (6-4) 12.9

G (11) Jase Richardson (6-3) 11.6

PG (1) Jeremy Fears Jr. (6-2) 7.0

Oregon

C (32) Nate Bittle (7-0) 14.1

PF (21) Brandon Angel (6-9) 8.4

SF (5) TJ Bamba (6-5) 10.2

G (9) Keeshawn Barthelemy (6-2) 10.2

G (3) Jackson Shelstad (6-0) 13.3

• MSU update: The Spartans enter the big ten tournament as a big ten champions. Now you will try to keep your seven-game winning streak running and win another title. The question of the Spartans is how hungry they will be this weekend. They urgently wanted the Big Ten championship and spent three months to take a 20-game loop for it. It is not the question of whether the MSU wants to win, but you cannot fake hunger or despair and whether a good opponent has a little more of one of these vibes, this can make the difference. The Big Ten tournament is one of these events where you want to win it (fans who follow English football could compare the Big Ten tournament with the FA Cup).

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.

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• Prediction: The Spartaners were so good last month that it is difficult to choose against them. But the big ten tournament is a different dynamic in terms of motivation and the like. Sometimes there is transmission. Sometimes the best team is satisfied to rest and set for the NCAA tournament. Oregon plays very well and seems to be motivated to run a run this week. They made the depth, determination and focus of the MSU different all year round. Maybe that’s the case in Indianapolis.

• Do it: Oregon 79, MSU 76

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– Graham couch

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