Lansing Exhibitionism

Falcon MBB played their first exhibition game in Lansing last night against MSU.  This is new...previously, these games were closed to the public and secret.  This one was open to the public and on Big Ten Network +.

It's hard to tell what you get.  It was a relatively tight game.  With ten minutes left, it was tied at 57, but from there MSU outscored BG 18-9 to put it away.

From BG's standpoint, I'm more interested in who played and how much.  I'll annotate who these guys are while we get to know them.

A couple notes.  We played (pretty much) a seven man rotation...MSU played 9.  (Measured by >10 minutes).  The numbers below are minutes played and then the plus minus for the game, remembering we lost by 9.

• Towns 36  (-5)   We know him
• Glover 21 (+6)  Transfer from Missouri-St. Louis
• Campbell 37 (-6) We know him
• Shakelford 31 (-17) JUCO Transfer
• Thomas 20 (-5) Florida State Transfer
• Goins 15 (-17) JUCO Transfer
• Ruffin 17 (-2) Colorado Transfer
• Leach 7 (2) Freshman from Whitmer
• Wol 6 (-6) Transfer Eastern Kentucky
• Kimbrough 4 (-7) JUCO Transfer
• Karel 3 (+2)  Freshman from Michigan
• DNP: Pardon, Spurgin, Dedivanaj, Maxamud, Squire, Adem (No idea about who might be healthy)

If you really want to wade in, here are the lineups BG used for more than 2 minutes.  The starters were +3 in 10 minutes, which is a good sign.  Drop Ruffin in for Thomas, and you get -7 in 5 minutes.  Campbell, Leach, Ruffin, Towns and Glover were +6 in 3 minutes as were Campbell, Ruffin, Towns, Glover and Thomas--

We will see them try and work to sharpen these lineups for the regular season.

Dayton on Monday.