Michigan State basketball did not look like a team playing its third game in three days, even facing a top-five opponent for a tournament championship.
Then Baylor found another gear, and the Spartans could not answer one final time in a week filled with comebacks.
MSU watched a five-point lead late in the first half evaporate with a 32-10 over a 12-plus-minute stretch of basketball into the second period. The fifth-ranked Bears controlled nearly every aspect after that and smothered the Spartans, 75-58, in Friday’s Battle 4 Atlantis title game at Paradise Island resort in Nassau, Bahamas.