East Lansing — The smiles came easy Saturday night at the Breslin Center.
They were splashed across the faces in the Michigan State locker room primarily because of the 53-point blowout victory over Eastern Michigan, but there was another reason everyone was feeling especially giddy — the Spartans were about to get the next four days off.
No practice. No games. Nothing.
“I told all of them, ‘No basketball,’” Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said. “Just get away for a while and then we come back and we start grinding.”