East Lansing – Maybe it’s just the nature of college basketball, but there’s some new faces around Michigan State basketball these days.
For a program that has had its share of outstanding seniors – from Mateen Cleaves to Draymond Green to Denzel Valentine – it seems a bit odd to see a heralded group of freshman come bursting through the doors with so much expectation awaiting them.
But that’s what college basketball has become, more and more each year, as the one-and-done phenomena has taken over and the idea of a top-rated player sticking around for more than a year or two seems foreign.