Facing off against the 9-3 Iowa Hawkeyes to open the Big Ten regular season, the No. 1 Michigan State Spartans need to be careful if they want to avoid the upset. Carver-Hawkeyes Arena isn’t the easiest place to play, but the Spartans have had good luck there in the past couple of seasons.
Jarrod Uthoff could pose some problems for Michigan State, especially with Denzel Valentine out, but Eron Harris and Bryn Forbes, or whoever is guarding him, will need to play lockdown defense and put up some big numbers of their own.
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