{"id":1699,"date":"2023-03-05T13:44:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T18:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2023-03-05T13:44:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T18:44:41","slug":"michigan-state-basketball-moves-up-6-seed-line-osu-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=1699","title":{"rendered":"Michigan State basketball moves up to 6-seed line after OSU win"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>According to Joe Lunardi, Michigan State basketball is now a No. 6 seed ahead of the NCAA Tournament following the OSU win.<\/h2>\n<p>Joe Lunardi is probably the most famous bracketologist out there and while he may not always be right (not even close), he does have a good feel for where teams will be seeded in the NCAA Tournament. That should make <a href=\"http:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-basketball-double-bye-rooting-interests-sunday\/\">Michigan State basketball<\/a> fans feel good.<\/p>\n<p>For weeks, Lunardi has had the Spartans listed a little higher than others (especially Jerry Palm) and he actually moved them up to the 6-line on Saturday after the Ohio State win.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan State is the lowest No. 6 seed, according to Lunardi, and the third-highest projected Big Ten team.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bzvZCmKRX4\">pic.twitter.com\/bzvZCmKRX4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Joe Lunardi (@ESPNLunardi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNLunardi\/status\/1632141724452569089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Big Ten has 10 bids and one team (Michigan) on the bubble. Purdue gets the No. 1 seed, Indiana gets a No. 4 seed, and Michigan State is the No. 6 seed while both Northwestern and Iowa get No. 7 seeds.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been impressive to see how much Michigan State has risen in the eyes of bracketologists over the past few weeks and just imagine where they&#8217;d be if they had beaten Iowa and Michigan like they should have. They&#8217;d be sitting at 21-9 overall and likely a projected No. 4 seed. The Spartans would also be right there in the Big Ten title race. It&#8217;s crazy how much three minutes of meltdown over two games can change things.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan State could improve that seeding ever so slightly (maybe the second-best or third-best 6-seed) with a win or two in the Big Ten Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Getting a top-four seed in the tournament would be huge because it would give the Spartans a double-bye and put them through to the quarterfinals with a potentially favorable matchup.<\/p>\n<p>At least we aren&#8217;t sweating out a Selection Sunday bid this year like we were a couple of seasons ago in the first year after COVID-19. That play-in game against UCLA still haunts me.<\/p>\n<p>So bracketologists have Michigan State seeded anywhere from the 6-line to the 9-line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSU is trending in the right direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[59,190,189],"class_list":["post-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","tag-featured","tag-michigan-state-basketball","tag-michigan-state-spartans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}