EAST LANSING — Five of Michigan State basketball’s first seven Big Ten games have been at home. All wins.
That leaves eight road games over the final 13 remaining regular-season games for the ninth-ranked Spartans, beginning with Thursday’s visit to Indiana and Sunday’s quick-turn at Minnesota.
And conference-leading MSU enters its stretch of five away games in its next seven knowing this is a chance to build a buffer from the rest of the muddled field chasing it.
“I'm looking at this as kind of a separation week one way or another, you know,” MSU coach Tom Izzo said Tuesday during his weekly news conference.