East Lansing – Tom Izzo glanced up to the rafters for just a second on Thursday evening, just after Michigan State had been through one of its toughest practices of the season.
Mired in a three-game skid that has some wondering how a team that looked nearly unbeatable during a 13-game winning streak has found itself struggling for answers on how to turn things around, Izzo made it a point to get back to the pillars of the program. To him, that means defending, rebounding and running.
Those parts of the game have dropped off in the past couple of weeks and it had Izzo thinking back to how the bulk of the championship and Final Four banners hanging in the Breslin Center got there.