IOWA CITY, Iowa — Tom Izzo walked back to the locker room at halftime, looked up at the scoreboard and shook his head.
He returned to Michigan State basketball’s sideline after halftime and, while watching A.J. Hoggard’s shot get blocked by Keegan Murray and bounce toward another Iowa fastbreak, walked out onto the court to argue the call.
Izzo got hit with a technical foul. Jordan Bohannon hit both free throws. Murray hit a layup and another free throw.
And the rout was on.
Izzo’s technical slowed some modest MSU momentum, but it likely did little to slow the Hawkeyes’ blistering 3-point shooting and Murray’s all-around assault in a 86-60 blowout of the 24th-ranked Spartans on Tuesday night at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.