Will It Be Enough? Michigan State 66 Iowa 61

Just a quick recap until we switch our attention to Purdue. Seth Davis tweets that MSU is in "with room to spare". I hope he's right, as it's looking like Kalin Lucas will see, at best, reduced action after rolling his ankle in the second half.
The four-factors graph shows just how close this one was.

Both teams hit the same number of twos (18) and threes (4). The difference was at the foul line, where MSU had 5 more makes on 6 more attempts. I would say that the Spartans won this on the boards, but mainly they won this because of Draymond Green. He put the team on his back on an off-night for Lucas, grinding out 21 points on 23 shots and pulling down 14 rebounds. He also had 4 assists, 2 blocks, 2 steals, 4 turnovers and only 2 fouls. There was even a Durrell Summers sighting, as he made a couple of big plays late to help ice the game, after being nearly invisible in the first half.

The Spartans face a tall hill next in the Purdue Boilermakers. They have not been competitive with the Boilers in the two meetings this year and now they'll have to do it with a hobbled Lucas. Stranger things have happened. The game is scheduled to tip at 6:30 PM.