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Michigan State basketball saw hopes rise, then drop during Big Ten's wild night

LSJ columnist Graham Couch, Freep beat writer Chris Solari and Freep columnist Shawn Windsor dissect the Spartans' win Lansing State Journal

EAST LANSING — Everything Wednesday night appeared to be shaping up for Michigan State basketball to control its fate for a third straight Big Ten championship.

Then Penn State’s Myles Dread and Maryland’s Darryl Morsell thwarted that hope, and the Spartans were right back where they were a few hours earlier.

Nearly identical end-of-game 3-pointers from Dread and Morsell helped their teams avoid upset losses that would have dramatically altered the race for the regular season league title.