What a way for Michigan State to battle back, but they still come up short, 74-67 to the Buckeyes. They seem to have a tendency to go through offensive "lulls" against the good teams and have to spend lots of energy to battle back. So much for team depth I guess, when it is basically 5 Buckeyes on 9 Spartans. OSU has the better starting five, for sure.

The point is that if you leave 8 points on the board from missed FTs (10-18), miss a late dunk, and your best player is just having an off-shooting day (Lucas 3-13), then you won't win. And we didn't. Give Ohio State credit for making shots at the end - they did, we didn't. As Tom Izzo says," now it is gut check time." One week to prepare for Purdue. But, if they don't make wide open shots in West Lafayette... it won't matter how hard they prepare.

This team can fight and battle -- give them credit. But, they need to stop getting behind by so many points.