What You Need To Know About Miss St vs Mich St | '5 Star Zone with Rico Beard'
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🗓️ 20 March 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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From '5 Star Zone with Rico Beard' (subscribe here): Rico Beard is joined by Mississippi State 247 Sports beat writer Justin Frommer to talk about the Spartans first round matchup with the Bulldogs. Frommer fills you in with everything you need to know about the Mississippi State Bulldogs before they face the Michigan State Spartans Thursday afternoon. Download the latest episode of the 5 Star Zone today.
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| 0:00.0 | The Five Star Zone with Rico Beard. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome to a special edition of the Five Star Zone. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm your host, Rico Beard. |
| 0:09.0 | Justin Frommer, beat writer from Mississippi State for 24-7, kind enough to join me. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm going to get a breakdown of the Bulldogs and find out everything that there is. |
| 0:21.0 | You guys know about the Spartans, but let's find out about the team |
| 0:23.9 | they're gonna be playing in the NCAA tournament in the first round. Justin first of all |
| 0:29.2 | thank you for joining this pod I appreciate your time and you know what do you what can you tell us about the Bulldogs what was their reaction when they found out that they had Michigan State. |
| 0:39.0 | Yeah, well interesting we were sort of away from the team when they got to see where they were in the field, but we heard the big announcement when their names got got put up on the screen and sort of carried into the Michigan State thing. |
| 0:54.5 | I can tell you my reaction as a former Michigan State alum myself that this is just a crazy |
| 1:02.0 | time for me to be covering my first |
| 1:04.3 | professional NCAA tournament for 247 and seeing Michigan State on the other side |
| 1:08.2 | but in terms of the actual matchup I know these teams are very very similar in terms of being strong on defense having their flaws on the offensive side and wanting to play these games on the boards in in a rock fight style. |
| 1:22.3 | Yeah, it's funny because I was just like you know. in a rock fight style. |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah, it's funny because I was just like, you know, looking at some of the breakdown. It's almost like the Spider-Man meme where, you know, I can give you stats and just play the game. Okay, which which MSU am I talking about? Well, it's a trick question. I'm talking about it. Because you know me, it's to me this is the first one to 50 type of game. |
| 1:45.4 | I think, you know, for Mississippi State, the advantage they have is the |
| 1:49.2 | offensive rebounding that they get from Michigan State. |
| 1:55.0 | It's the ability to turn your opponent over. The bull, I'm just gonna, Bulldogs and Spartans. |
| 1:58.0 | Bulldogs turn the ball over a lot more than Spartans. |
| 2:03.4 | Spartans. |
| 2:04.4 | If they get you in transition, |
| 2:06.1 | that's why they could beat you, the easier baskets. |
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