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This stood out to me.

"Twenty of the last 32 Final Four teams have been conference tournament champions"

Which means MSU has three of the 12 teams that buck the trend. Interesting.

I don't think it matters one way or another.

Great article, thanks for posting. I think it certainly shows that winning a conference tourney (and playing in 3 games back to back to back) has no downside at all as far as making a deep tourney run.

Obviously Izzo has had success with teams not winning in the conference tourney's as had Roy Williams. Of the past 8 NCAA champs, all have won their conference tourney's except for UNC in 2009 and 2005.

Right, didn't UConn have to win 5 games in the BE Tourney last year? If so they played 11 games.

+1

It's basically been proven that winning conference tourney games doesn't have any negative effect on playing in the NCAA's and yet there's still MSU fans that want to lose. Makes no sense.

I never thought it was anyone wanted to lose, more just that they don't care if we lose if Izzo is using it as prep and time to work on sets and lines. If what he works on happens to also win some games and the tourney, then sweet, I don't think anyone would be disappointed.