COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Lansing State Journal columnist Graham Couch's three quick takes on Michigan State's impressive and promising 78-66 win at Maryland:
1. That Michigan State team can win a national championship
For the first time all season, for an entire game, Michigan State on Saturday night looked the part of a team built to make a run in March.
You know it when you see it — when each of the parts in the lineup begin to look like strengths instead of liabilities. When it happens at a place like Maryland, 78-66 no less, against a team that’s proven it can beat you and is playing to clinch a share of the Big Ten championship.