From a player worthy of national player of the year honors to prominence in nearly every statistical category, and from off-the-court success to a rabidly devoted fan base, only the lack of a championship prevents Michigan State’s senior class from saying: “We have it all.”
With Saturday’s always-emotional Senior Day festivities out of the way and the Big Ten regular season emphatically concluded with a 91-76 thrashing of Ohio State, Denzel Valentine & Co. will do everything in its power to rectify that shortcoming over the course of the next month.
After making another case for why he’s arguably the best player in the country by having a hand in 56 points against the Buckeyes, Valentine echoed Mateen Cleaves’ promise of delivering a national championship on his MSU Senior Day, 16 years and one day earlier.