Ready or not, Big Ten play is here.
In most college basketball seasons, a team would have nearly a dozen games to get things figured out before beginning its conference season. Of course, things are hardly typical these days as college basketball attempts to play in the middle of a global pandemic.
The COVID-19 outbreak forced Michigan State to lose one of its seven nonconference games when an increase in cases at Virginia scrubbed the teams’ scheduled matchup in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. And now, after a longer-than-usual break, the Spartans are set to get back to action on Sunday when they travel to Northwestern for a 7 p.