Scottrade Center
St. Louis, MO
Somewhere around 2:45 ET today the 29-5 #2 Michigan State Spartans will take the court and play #15 24-9 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders. The Spartans are a favorite to win the entire tournament and loaded from top to bottom. The Spartans being the proverbial favorite to cut the nets down in Houston have to dance with the Blue Raiders fulfilling the role of Cinderella. The Blue Raiders are a good team, well coached, but needing help to extinguish the red hot Spartans.
I asked junior Blue Raiders forward Reggie Upshaw about the euphoric moment that you find out you made the tournament and the hard dose of reality that you are playing a Tom Izzo led Spartan team.