East Lansing — By the time Michigan State finished off Michigan on Saturday afternoon, there were enough storylines to last until whenever these rivals might meet again.
There was the bounce-back game from Max Christie, overcoming some recent shooting woes to spark Michigan State early in the game on the offensive end. There was Malik Hall, doing the same late in the first half and showing no ill effects of his free-throw miss early in the week that could have bailed out the Spartans at Illinois. Marcus Bingham Jr., even battling foul trouble, made life difficult for Michigan’s Hunter Dickinson.