EAST LANSING, Mich. — It was difficult to hear oneself think at times during Michigan State’s Wednesday afternoon practice. The ninth-ranked Spartans were blasting crowd noise in anticipation of a raucous environment in Lincoln against Nebraska on Friday night (9 p.m. ET, Peacock).
“Sometimes,” Tom Izzo said when asked how often he does that. “Not a ton of times. We’ve got some new guys. We’ve got some transfers that have never seen it, done it, been there. We just want to try it for a couple days to give them a little better idea.”
Nebraska’s Hot Streak
No team in college basketball is on a longer win streak than the 13th-ranked Cornhuskers. Nebraska is 13-0 this season and has won 17 straight overall, dating back to last season, when it missed the NCAA Tournament, but won the newly created “College Basketball Crown” tournament that includes four rounds and 16 teams.
This Cornhuskers team has much bigger aspirations than a consolation tournament, though. Nebraska has (shockingly) not won an NCAA Tournament game before, but this squad looks like a threat to take a couple of games in the Big Dance. This is the highest the Huskers have been since being ranked 11th in 1991…