Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo speaks to the media after the 71-60 win over Rutgers on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019, in East Lansing. Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press
EAST LANSING — It has been more than two years since Michigan State basketball beat Michigan and three years since the Spartans won at Crisler Center.
For No. 10 MSU to pull off the upset Sunday against the seventh-ranked Wolverines, the Spartans must do it without two key pieces — Nick Ward and Joshua Langford — and potentially a third with Kyle Ahrens continuing to nurse a bad back.