Cassius Winston helped send Michigan State on to the Sweet 16 with a 70-50 victory over Minnesota in the NCAA tournament second round Saturday. Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press
DES MOINES, Iowa —You can see it coming together. At least in spurts. When these Michigan State Spartans start flowing and swarming into something greater than their parts.
They’ve been that way all season, truthfully, and it would’ve been a shame if their season had ended here, inside Wells Fargo Arena, in a city in the center of the country’s farmland.
They’ve overcome injury after injury, a mini-slump midway through the winter, and a coach-and-player exchange that lit up the college basketball world just this past Thursday night.