BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — It wasn’t the start or the finish. This time, Michigan State basketball’s midsection proved the Spartans’ undoing. And maybe a little fatigue as well.
In a game loaded with runs, Indiana got the biggest and most timely — an 18-4 burst midway through the second half — to pull away from MSU to a chippy 82-69 victory Sunday at Assembly Hall.
It was the sixth game in 16 days for the Spartans (13-7, 5-4 Big Ten), one every third day since a Jan. 7 home win over Michigan. MSU gets one extra day off before hosting Iowa on Thursday at Breslin Center in East Lansing (7 p.