East Lansing — Michigan State has four players score in double figures on Monday night against Iowa, but the offense was hardly the story for the Spartans.
Back on its home court for the first time in two weeks, No. 10 Michigan State frustrated No. 18 Iowa from beginning to end, limiting the Hawkeyes to 32.8 percent shooting on its way to a 90-68 victory at the Breslin Center to open Big Ten play with back-to-back victories.
The Spartans (7-2, 2-0) were solid defensively in the first half, but in the second, they were suffocating, forcing the Hawkeyes to miss 19 of their first 20 shots in the second half and holding them to just one field goal — a 3-pointer from Jordan Bohannon — over the first 10 minutes, 21 seconds of the second half.