Minneapolis — In the moments following Michigan State’s loss to Texas Tech on Saturday night in the Final Four, the media crowd began to grow outside the Spartans locker room.
The television cameras were powered on and the notepads blank, ready to process that Michigan State’s season, one that was starting to feel destined to end with a national championship, ended so abruptly.
“This is gonna be rough,” someone said, predicting the muffled voices and red eyes that normally await in a losing team’s locker room on the final weekend of the season.