On a cold Thursday evening in East Lansing, the Michigan State Spartans hosted the Minnesota Golden Gophers with an opportunity to win their second straight conference game and begin to start crawling their way up the conference standings. Judging by the way the game started, MSU was going to cruise in this one. The Spartans could not have written a better start to this game. Mady Sissoko won the jump ball, as is tradition, and 17 seconds later, Malik Hall opened up the scoring after backing down his defender and hitting the turnaround jumper. On their first defensive stand, Jaden Akins slapped the ball away from a Minnesota big man, and that lead to a Tyson Walker bucket plus the shooting foul where he would get one more point.
3 Likes & 3 Dislikes: MSU Outlasts Minnesota, 76-66
