Stay A While

Sorry folks, just moved and finally got cable.  

Some news to go around in the world of sparty.  First of all,  MSU trounced Nebraska and Draymond Green collected another 20-10 game.  He is likely yout B1G POY.  This win coupled with a UM loss earlier in the day and a Wisconsin win over OSU the n ext day and MSU automatically got a share of the of the B1G title. A win at Indiana or against OSU and we clinch the out right B1G title.   These are two tough games to close the season and yours truly is likely going to miss the MSU game tomorrow. yay.  The #1 seed in the Big Ten tournament is up for grabs and there are about 50 different tie breakers.   Travis Trice will still be out for the IU game and Nix might not make it for the game with a sprained arch.  That to me is a bigger loss than Trice.  IU had no answer for Nix's girth in the previous match up.  If Nix cannot go, look for this to be the Appling show.  He has been tremendous the past three games limiting turnovers and playing good defense.  This game will need more of that with the IU stripe out coming to shake MSU off their groove.  Appling's continuing development of his mid range game, stop and pop, is also something to watching - not only for this game but going forward.  Obviously we need a solid game from Green but we really need a good one from Payne.  Payne played 15 minutes in the previous match up (to Nix's 23) and was fairly effective.  However, Payne is better defensive match up for Zeller.  Lately Payne has been backing people down and using a jump hook/rise and fire type shot that has been wildly effective.  With his length and ability to jump, Payne needs to use this more.  I am pretty 50/50 on the outcome of this game so no prediction.

MSU also picked up a few more football recruits.  Granted nothing compared to what UM has been doing.  First was Jalyn Powell out of Warren G Harding HS in Warren, OH.  Powell is a 6-1 187 lb ATH.  If  I had to guess, hell be a safety.  There is no ranking information that I can find.  He had interest from UM, and WVU. 

There other commit is R.J. Shelton out of Beaver Dam HS in Beaver Dam, WI.  R.J. is a 5-11 185 running back.  Like Jalyn, there is little to no rating information.  I have seen various sites heap praise on R.J calling him a star.  R.J. had offers from Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa and also had interest from Arkansas, Cincinnati, and Oregon.  So that's a solid list at least.

For these two well see when the sites update their recruitment information where they stack up.