EAST LANSING — Senior Day couldn’t have started better.
Joey Hauser to Marcus Bingham Jr. for an alley-oop dunk. Gabe Brown with a 3-point play, then setting up a 3-pointer for Bingham. And Bingham draining a second on the next trip.
Michigan State basketball scored the first 14 points against Maryland on Sunday, and Breslin Center was rocking. The lead swelled to 20 by halftime. A rout looked inevitable.
Until the Terrapins started ripping off runs to start the second half. First 10 straight, then 12 straight. All of a sudden, the 25th-ranked Spartans found themselves in another dogfight with inside of eight minutes to play.