The Sweet 16 is upon us and in less than 48 hours, we’ll all be planted in front of our TVs for about five straight hours, consuming all the basketball we can, and that includes Michigan State vs UConn on Friday.
The Spartans are the 3-seed in one of the toughest regions that I can remember that featured Duke, UConn, Kansas, St. John’s, UCLA, and Louisville, but Michigan State is one of the four teams left.
Michigan State has also been playing pretty well so far, winning its first game by 25 points and then controlling the entire 40-minute battle with Louisville. Neither end result was really ever in doubt. Other teams like Duke, St. John’s, UConn, Iowa, Nebraska, Texas, and Arkansas can’t say they’ve had a stress-free run to the Sweet 16. They’ve all had their scares, but they’re still in the field, some more shockingly than others…