Michigan State’s most recent basketball season will be remembered for a lot of good things — for reinvigorating a fan base, for putting the program atop the Big Ten again, for an NCAA tournament run that lasted to the end of the second weekend, for old-school culture largely winning the day, for incredible depth and roster parity, and for freshman Jase Richardson.
Until Richardson’s February emergence as a true headliner and primary weapon offensively, this was a team lived its “strength in numbers” mantra to the point that I didn’t know whether any of MSU’s players individually would deserve much of a place in MSU basketball lore.