Just a few weeks ago the Michigan State Spartans were done. Finished. Dead in the water. Many people had them counted out (myself included) and tried to deal with the fact that this year’s month of March would be different from any other in the last 23 years.
That long stretch of fantastic basketball over two decades of countless wonderful hoops memories apparently wasn’t enough to have many of us Spartans fans all truly believe in the magic of Tom Izzo — never counting him out until the last game is over. We all thought we did, but when push came to shove many of us really didn’t.