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Michigan basketball won how Michigan State once did – with toughness

Free Press sports writers Nick Baumgardner and George Sipple and columnist Shawn Windsor react to Michigan's 82-72 win over Michigan State on Saturday, Jan. 13 in East Lansing. Detroit Free Press

Beilein took his Wolverines into the Breslin Center and knocked off MSU in a way that had to feel familiar to Spartans fans

EAST LANSING — Someone called him ugly. Or no good. Or both.

Moritz Wagner can’t remember. But he heard the heckler loud and clear. Because the Breslin Center was dead quiet as he stood near mid-court in the waning seconds of Michigan’s 82-72 win Saturday afternoon.