EAST LANSING - Three days earlier, Michigan's Moritz Wagner had lifted a finger to his lips to silence the Michigan State crowd, en route to a career game and an upset Wolverines win.
As sat on the sideline at the Breslin Center on Tuesday afternoon, facing the floor where the Spartans had suffered that defeat and that gleeful gesture from Wagner, Cassius Winston stated the obvious.
"Everything's not all peaches and roses right now," the Michigan State sophomore point guard said. "We're fighting out of the doghouse. We're grinding, and I think it's good for us, getting back to those roots, getting back to that summer grind, going out there with something to prove.