Thursday night at the Jack Breslin Student Events Center, the Michigan State Spartans closed out exhibition play by defeating a scrappy Grand Valley State University squad by a final score of 83-60.
The game was not exactly a thing of beauty. MSU led comfortably for essentially the entire game, but GVSU provided just enough resistance to test the Spartans. The coaching staff also had the opportunity to experiment a bit before the Spartans dive into the deep end in the Champions Classic against Kansas next week on Tuesday.
In head coach Tom Izzo’s opening statement of the postgame press conference, he said that there were some things that were good and some other things that were “very average” about the Spartans’ play.