MSU's Kyle Ahrens, Nick Ward and Cassius Winston on win over OSU The Detroit News
Columbus, Ohio — Nick Ward’s been here before, on a court just minutes from his childhood home, all eyes on him, family in the stands with 18,000-plus screaming and hoping the local kid spends the afternoon fumbling away the ball and talking to himself in frustration.
That’s pretty much how Ward’s first two trips went in his freshman and sophomore seasons at Michigan State. In 2017, the native of nearby Gahanna, Ohio, let his emotion get the best of him while last year, with the Spartans ranked No.