EAST LANSING — Xavier Tillman wanted to beat Duke “badly,” probably as much Tom Izzo wanted Vernon Carey to become a Spartan.
Neither thing happened. And Michigan State did something that rarely happens to an Izzo-coach team.
“We got embarrassed at home,” Tillman said after Tuesday’s 87-65 loss to the Blue Devils in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge. “That’s something that, in my whole career of playing basketball, I’ve never gotten embarrassed playing. And this is one off the times I could feel it.”