“If you have a solid program, you shouldn’t need a wake up call,” Tom Izzo said in his postgame press conference. Even so, his Spartans should take their first loss in an opener in East Lansing since 1970 as a call to action.
Michigan State fell in the regular season opener at the Breslin Center 79-76 in overtime to a scrappy James Madison team in a mistake-riddled performance. It’s James Madison’s second win over a ranked team in program history - the first since 1992 when Lefty Driesell’s Dukes took down Cal in a neutral site game in New Jersey.