(Photo: Daniel Mears, Detroit News)
Minneapolis — A couple shots short, a couple possessions short, and ultimately, a couple bodies short.
It’s laudable the Spartans got as far as they did, to the Final Four, considering what they were missing and how much energy they spent trying to compensate. It ended in a sheen of sweat, 61-51, late Saturday against a Texas Tech defense that was impressively oppressive.
There weren’t many tears in the locker room afterward, perhaps because Michigan State had no emotion left to spill. And also because this didn’t feel like the end of a larger story.