NEW YORK – Expectation isn’t always Tom Izzo’s friend. He knows it, too.
Outsiders take stock of his Michigan State basketball roster and figure it’s worthy of a No. 1 ranking. And maybe it is. Eventually.
It’s just not yet. And it showed that Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden, where the Spartans struggled to get out of their own way in a 69-62 loss to No. 2 Kentucky.