Michigan State Clinches Big Ten Title with Win Over Iowa

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00:00only one power conference game yesterday that featured an outright Big Ten title on the line

00:06in Iowa City for eighth ranked Michigan State a victory for the Spartans on the road in Carver

00:13Hawkeye an outright Big Ten title their first since 2017-18 their fourth Big Ten title in that

00:20span the 11th in 30 years under Tom Izzo in East Lansing which would match and make more Big Ten

00:28history and it was a precarious start for Sporty yesterday but then after an exchange of words

00:36midway through the second half a fired up Michigan State rallied to knock off Iowa in a high scoring

00:43game 91-84 Michigan State closes as a six and a half point favorite so a road win in cover as well

00:53Michigan State has clinched an outright Big Ten title with Big Ten win number 16 on the season

01:00doing so against Iowa last night in Iowa City look we know Iowa you've really fast tempo and

01:06offense can get after but really bad on defense but the things that you like to see when you're

01:09heading into conference tournament play and March Madness is how well the team is playing down the

01:14stretch Michigan State 16 and 3 now in conference play but more importantly look at the starting

01:18lineup four players been 14 points or more in the starting lineup alone then you bring what five

01:24guys off the bench and every single one of those players does at least score one point and also

01:28Holloman chips in with 11 that's what you need because so many times we get caught up on a great

01:33starting five and not much coming off the bench or a great starting five and only one or two guys

01:38are scoring points a balanced attack in the tournament where you can access every single

01:43position and get production from that's tremendous that's what worked in Michigan State's favor this

01:47entire season and I'm looking forward to see how it does now once we get into postseason play

01:52but a quality victory it's never easy where one team's playing hard you're down ah no big deal

01:57maybe we'll go to a weekend game and see if we can you know get other things done in the Big Ten

02:01but handling your business coming back now being 25 and five on the season I was impressed by

02:06Michigan State because not only winning the game getting the cover on top of it as well.