They are nothing if not an enigma, though that is probably not their fault. After all, we're the ones who penciled this Michigan State team into the Final Four last fall.
Or many of us did.
Maybe they still get there. Maybe these young-ish Spartans find something in the darkness that's hovered over their campus the last several weeks. Maybe they find a way to become something more than their parts, which they are not.
Not yet, anyway. Despite what their record says.
MSU held on to beat Indiana, 63-60, Saturday night. Yes, 22-3 is the best start for Tom Izzo since his 2001 team.