East Lansing — Michigan State lost its second consecutive game on Saturday, something it hadn’t done since the final two regular-season games in 2017.
And Tom Izzo almost knew it was coming.
He might not have known his team was going to go 8-for-22 from the free-throw line or give up 20 offensive rebounds while allowing Indiana — the Big Ten’s worst 3-point shooting team — to nail 10 of its 20 attempts. But he did sense the lackluster effort was coming, one that led to Indiana’s 79-75 overtime victory at the Breslin Center.
“I didn’t do a very good job of getting my team to play and I knew it the way we practiced this week,” Izzo said.