Green Leads Michigan St Past Iowa 92-75 In Big Ten Tournament
Draymond Green had 21 points and 10 rebounds to lead No. 8 Michigan State over Iowa 92-75 in the Big Ten tournament quarterfinals on Friday.
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Draymond Green had 21 points and 10 rebounds to lead No. 8 Michigan State over Iowa 92-75 in the Big Ten tournament quarterfinals on Friday.
Michigan State still has a shot at a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament if it can forget about a bitter finish to the regular season and overcome a season-ending injury to its star freshman.
Iowa faces top-seeded Michigan State Friday in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten tournament.
Mateen Cleaves, captain of the last NCAA championship team in 2000, said injured freshman SF Branden Dawson will be difficult to replace.
Big Ten, Thursday-Sunday, Indianapolis. The regular season was a weekly beatdown and the battles figure to continue in Indy. No. 8 Michigan State appeared to be a lock to win the regular-season title, taking a two-game lead with two games left.
Michigan State coach Tom Izzo was still hurting 18 hours after his team lost to Ohio State and had to settle for a share of the Big Ten title.
Michigan State's Draymond Green was chosen as player of the year in the Big Ten by two panels, one comprised of media, the other made up of coaches.
Michigan State's Tom Izzo was selected as coach of the year for a third time as the Spartans finished 24-7 and 13-5 in the league after starting the season unranked.
Izzo was still somber Monday, a day after the Spartans lost to the Buckeyes and had to settle for a share of the Big Ten title.
Kansas, the Big 12 champion for an eighth straight season, is followed by North Carolina, Missouri, Duke, Ohio State, Michigan State, Marquette and Michigan.
On Sunday night the Michigan-Michigan State rivalry was taken to a new, unfamiliar level as the Wolverines gained a share of the Big Ten title because the Spartans lost at the Breslin Center and it was the Buckeyes that beat them.
Michigan State's team posed for pictures — without a smile seen — in front of a Big Ten championship banner during a postgame ceremony to honor its seniors.
It could be next to meaningless if the Spartans beat Michigan and/or Ohio State in the Big Ten Tournament and then go on a long run in the NCAA Tournament.
Michigan State will share Big Ten title with Ohio State and Michigan Wolverines after a 72-70 loss at home to Ohio State on Sunday.
No player in Michigan State history has won a pair of outright Big Ten regular-season championships, though seniors Austin Thornton and Draymond Green are on the verge of becoming the first two.
