Michigan State Spartans basketball coach Tom Izzo speaks to the media on Tuesday, March 10, 2020, in East Lansing. Detroit Free Press
EAST LANSING — It once again was the best chance for Tom Izzo to finally win his second national championship.
Then it wasn’t. Then maybe, just maybe.
And now? Now what?
The final memory of the Michigan State basketball season in 2019-20 will be Cassius Winston leaning down to kiss the court, then walking off with 9.4 seconds remaining and into a tender embrace from his coach, leaving Breslin Center as a champion.