Watch Lansing State Journal columnist Graham Couch analyze MSU's performance in an overtime loss at Louisville. Graham Couch, Lansing State Journal
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The worst thing that could have happened to Foster Loyer on Tuesday night is if it had all gone right.
If he hadn’t passed up the 3-point shot and then turned the ball over. If the Louisville 3-pointer taken over his head had bounced off the rim instead of putting Louisville back in front. If the free throw …
OK, maybe not the free throw. Better for him that he makes the front end of the one-and-one opportunity at the line with 36 seconds left, gives Michigan State a three-point lead and then walks off the court having done the one thing he set records doing in high school — making free throws, 119 straight.