EAST LANSING – This is the sort of win Michigan State’s women’s basketball team needed: A resume-boosting, confidence-building, blow-for-blow — nearly wire-to-wire — takedown of one of the nation’s best teams.
MSU’s 83-78 win over No. 4 Indiana on Thursday afternoon at Breslin Center is likely to hold up as a notable result all the way through NCAA tournament Selection Sunday.
It won’t mean much if it doesn’t carry over into the rest of Big Ten play. But after being flattened by Iowa State in Portland, Oregon, and falling just short at Ohio State earlier this season — both top-five teams — the Spartans needed one of these to go in the win column.