EAST LANSING – Denzel Valentine waved his arms up and down, imploring for more from the Breslin Center crowd.
The Michigan State senior guard clapped his hands and screamed “Come on!” He slapped the floor with both hands, a gesture his four teammates quickly mimicked.
A strange time for such theatrics, with the Spartans up 25-9 on Penn State and 8:40 left in the first half? Maybe. But maybe Valentine sensed an opponent near resignation.
He promptly pounced on a Shep Garner pass, picked it off, took off the other way and found teammate Bryn Forbes with a wicked cross-court feed.