This Spartan team will finish with the winningest regular season in Michigan State basketball history.
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Some consider this relatively unimportant considering the ultimate goal of a national championship. Others disagree.
Regular season games greatly outnumber playoff games, so a Final Four run includes a larger element of luck compared to a regular season championship. Tom Izzo understands this, telling Miles Bridges when he decided to return that if he was coming back to win a national championship he shouldn’t do it.
Because the team was in more control of a regular season conference championship, the championship was an essential accomplishment.