There are few sure things, and when it comes to playing games in college basketball these days, things are far from certain.
But as of Saturday afternoon, No. 10 Michigan State was in place to take on Northwestern at 2 p.m. on Sunday in a return to Big Ten action, and the Spartans were expecting to do so at full strength. That wasn’t the case the last time the Spartans played on Dec. 29 when they were without Marcus Bingham Jr., Max Christie and Pierre Brooks because of positive COVID tests in a home win over High Point.