To be Michigan State’s head basketball coach Tom Izzo in the month of December is to never be satisfied. On Saturday afternoon, the Spartans defeated the Penn State Nittany Lions by a final score of 80-64 to improve the team’s record to 9-2 overall, despite playing one of the toughest schedules in the nation so far.
Michigan State is one of only three Big Ten teams to go 2-0 during the December round of conference games. (Ohio State and Illinois are other two.) The Spartans are ranked in the top-20 and the teams only losses so far have come to teams currently ranked in the top-10 (Kansas and Baylor).