It is a three-and-a-half-hour drive due south on I-35 from Minneapolis to Des Moines, Iowa. Michigan State freshman Aaron Henry found this out the hard way, as he chased a curling Amir Coffey into the paint and rose to meet Minnesota’s leading scorer. Coffey’s left forearm crashed into Henry’s back as his right one flushed the ball through the rim, and as he snarled back up the court, a Golden Gophers–leaning crowd rose to meet him. Minnesota still trailed Michigan State by 13, but for a second, the margin felt much smaller. Henry, when he was later informed of the aforementioned distance to Minnesota’s campus, nodded.
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