Game one of the NCAA Tournament went according to plan for the Michigan State Spartans as they crushed Miami 78-58.
Tom Izzo’s young squad came together, led by Nick Ward and Miles Bridges, and “threw the diapers out,” as the Big Ten Network’s Allison Hayes says in this postgame interview with Izzo:
The coach doesn’t miss a beat and says he agrees with the assessment.
“They grew a low (today),” he says. “They’ve been growing for a month. The last 10 games we’ve been much better.