Michigan State Battles Mississippi: In-Depth Game Preview

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00:00635 636 on the rotation Mississippi Michigan State from live in Atlanta

00:06tonight we already went over the numbers here three and a half is the current

00:09favorite at the fanville sportsbook for Michigan State 143 and a half as the

00:13total lining this game up Joe and I talking here over the break the one

00:17thing we know what Michigan State is it's not a pretty basketball team it's

00:20not littered with first-team all-americans and number one overall

00:23draft picks they just get the job done with a great coach and a great

00:26defensive footprint we like Mississippi's offense it's top 25 in

00:30the country when you take a look at the efficiency but Michigan State's defense

00:33unbelievably rebounding team on defense which means you don't get second points

00:37here fourth overall inefficiency the best team in the country at defending

00:42the three-point line now the interesting part Joe is they'll let you shoot the

00:45three but they're gonna put a hand in your face and that will affect you again

00:49360 plus teams in the country nobody defends the three-point line better than

00:54Michigan State how does that affect the game tonight with Mississippi trying to

00:58steal some of those points from the three-point line well I think it lends

01:03itself to certainly an under in this spot here because Michigan State number

01:11one of defending the three-point percentage shot right all year long

01:14they're not a great three-point shooting team their idea of being able to beat

01:19you is wearing you down and why can they wear you down because they can go

01:24ten deep we mentioned it last hour how Florida and the depth that they have and

01:31what they just basically wore down Maryland last night well that's kind of

01:36exactly what Michigan State's game plan is when they can throw ten guys and

01:40fresh legs the entire time and every one of them is built to defend it makes it

01:45very very difficult I love Chris Beard I think this is the coaching matchup of

01:50the night and with Izzo but listen it's tough to go against Michigan State in

01:58this spot here I do favor the under simply because Michigan State is not

02:04going to hit the three and I also don't believe that Ole Miss is going to

02:08continue to hit 50% from three like they've done in the first two games I

02:14believe variants will kick in I believe Izzo and Michigan State will dictate

02:19pace everything is going to be contested in this game I think this is a good

02:23old-fashioned rock fight tonight here if you don't want to lay the three in the

02:28hook I would definitely look maybe first half under Michigan State has been a

02:34very slow starting team here they usually pick it up in the second half so

02:39I would look maybe to a first half under if not a full game under and look

02:45maybe just maybe you can get Michigan State live at a much better number than

02:50minus three and a half maybe even a pick them if they fall behind early which

02:55they have done a couple of times already here in the tournament