Saturday’s Michigan State vs Penn State game marks the first road test of the season for the Spartans, and it comes against an 8-2 Nittany Lions squad.
Michigan State is 8-1 on the season, suffering its first loss a week ago against Duke at the Breslin Center. It was a game that seemingly got away from the Spartans in the final minutes, and we can thank the zone defense for that. Tom Izzo once again had a tough time countering the zone defense, and Duke had to audible to that in the final minutes because of Cameron Boozer’s foul trouble.