Michigan State Basketball is now firmly out of the Big Ten race after dropping its fifth conference game of the season Tuesday night, an 82-81 overtime road loss to No. 18 Purdue. The Spartans have now lost three Big Ten games by one point.
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Purdue sank the game-winning free throw after a foul was called on Denzel Valentine as he was fighting over a screen. Michigan State fans were enraged at the call, as it looked like Purdue’s A.J. Hammons stepped his right leg out into Valentine, which would constitute an illegal screen.