{"id":1710,"date":"2023-03-05T16:19:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T21:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=1710"},"modified":"2023-03-05T16:19:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T21:19:08","slug":"michigan-state-basketball-earns-double-bye-big-ten-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=1710","title":{"rendered":"Michigan State basketball officially earns double-bye in Big Ten Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Michigan State basketball was helped out a ton this weekend and it earned a double-bye in the Big Ten Tournament.<\/h2>\n<p>A lot had to go right this weekend for <a href=\"http:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-basketball-moves-up-6-seed-line-osu-win\/\">Michigan State basketball<\/a> to earn a double-bye in the Big Ten Tournament next week.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan State needed to beat Ohio State on Saturday and then three out of four scenarios needed to play out in the Spartans&#8217; favor.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Penn State needed to beat Maryland<\/li>\n<li>Purdue needed to beat Illinois<\/li>\n<li>Nebraska needed to upset Iowa on the road<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, all three of those happened and a fourth is still possible if Rutgers beats Northwestern. If that, too, happens, Michigan State will earn the 3-seed in the Big Ten Tournament. Right now, after those three above situations have come to fruition, the Spartans are the 4-seed.<\/p>\n<p>Penn State found itself down double-digits with under 10 minutes left in the second half before storming back to win. It looked like that game was a lost cause for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Purdue had a 21-point lead at halftime before Illinois stormed back to make things close in the second half, even tying the game up. The Illini made things a little interesting as this was supposed to be the most sure win out of the four scenarios for the Spartans.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, the most improbably scenario happened as Nebraska went into Iowa City and upset the Hawkeyes thanks to some hot shooting and poor Iowa defense.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan State is now the 4-seed in the Big Ten Tournament with Rutgers vs. Northwestern still looming. A win there for the Scarlet Knights would mean the Spartans are a 3-seed. Kind of a meaningless move up one spot, but at least the double-bye is locked in.<\/p>\n<p>The Spartans are getting lucky in March so far and if they can win two games in the Big Ten tourney, they&#8217;ll be in the championship game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything has gone right for MSU this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[59,190,189],"class_list":["post-1710","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\/1710","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=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}