East Lansing — Cassius Winston struggled again on Friday night, but his final line hardly mattered.
No. 15 Michigan State didn’t need the senior guard to score and they didn’t rely too heavily on the reigning Big Ten Player of the Year to distribute the ball either.
The Spartans got plenty from the supporting cast, certainly enough to jump out to a big lead before cruising over the final minutes to a 67-55 victory over Wisconsin at the Breslin Center.
None of it kept Winston from being the star of the night, though, as his lob pass to Xavier Tillman for a dunk in the second half brought the house down, giving Winston the 817th assist of his career, breaking the Big Ten and program record established by former Spartan Mateen Cleaves, who was in the crowd.