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ANALYSIS: MSU didn’t lose because Wisconsin shot lights out; they lost because they stopped being MSU
Wisconsin exposed the pressure points in Michigan State’s defensive structure, where small execution errors became decisive
By David Harns
Michigan State did not lose because Wisconsin simply made a lot of shots. It lost because the Spartans changed their coverage plan, and that plan required near-perfect execution in the small, controllable areas of the game, and those details – turnovers at the wrong time, second-chance rebounds, missed free-throw cut-outs – did not hold up.
