9-2 against the tourney field isn't dog meat. That's only 2 games less than Denver and 3 less than UMass. If MSU isn't battle tested, neither is Denver or UMass
Just for the sake of being accurate. D Bennett Zmolek has been injured for about a month. And MSU played tournament team BSU on Feb 25 and 26...the last tourney team was not in January.
It doesn't, but Hastings does his best to make up for that in non-conference.
This year's non-conference was UMASS x2, St. Cloud x2, Providence, Michigan, UMD x2, ASU x2 and went 8-2-0 during that.
Touche.
Honestly, I'm gonna do to qu what everyone has historically done to msu. Qu has been awful against anyone that has been good and feasted on everyone else. I think they are going to end up getting beat up in the ncaas.
If bemidji wouldn't have played out of their ass in the conference and awful against everyone else in 2017, it would have been 8 in a row.
As an outside observer, yeah that was a heck of a slash that should have been called amd is inexcusable that it wasn't, but I'm not sure I could argue there was intent to injure or anything out of the ordinary. The end result doesn't necessarily mean anything as far as the penalty or any kind of discipline.
I dont buy it. I don't know any inside info, but I would be very surprised. They did a study less than 10 years ago and decided to stay d2. Add to that, the university president is less than 6 months into his tenure. That would be a very quick to make that big of a financial move. I could be wrong, but I think right now they are happy being a very big fish in a small pond.
Darren Blue, MSU-M assistant coach, resigned to enter the private sector. Rumor has it that this had been in the works and they already have a replacement in mind.
https://www.keyc.com/2021/07/27/blue-announces-resignation-mavericks-assistant-coach/