Michigan State Spartans Insider Podcast: Looking at MSU's Upcoming Schedule
No. 16 Michigan State will be back home on Thursday to host Washington.
The Spartans will be searching for their eighth straight win and 13th of the season.
Looking at the month of January as a whole for Michigan State, the Spartans will be at home for much of the month and have to take full advantage of that in order to give themselves some relief going into a tough month of February.
Our Aidan Champion and host Bryan Anthony Davis dive into Michigan State's upcoming schedule on this episode of the Michigan State Spartans Insider Podcast.
You can watch the episode below:
Below is a partial transcript from Michigan State coach Tom Izzo's opening statement from his press conference on Monday:
Izzo: "As I told you earlier in the year, I was hoping after Christmas, we'd get a real good feel where everybody is. And I think we started to. We started looking at some teams that were struggling a little bit. Washington was one of them, and Oregon was one that was the other way. And then all of a sudden, Illinois goes out there and beats them by 30, and then Maryland, who was really playing well, goes out there and loses, too. I think it's going to be hard on fans, hard on media, hard on coaches, hard on everybody to know this is going to be the norm, I think. Washington, after not looking as good, beat a good Maryland team, and then, it was a tie game last night with 30 seconds left and after being down big early. So, I think you're seeing what I said early, that all these teams are good. Travel, different things, is going to make a difference in teams' play sometimes. Right now, we return to Big Ten play with a, I think, an impressive win. I mean, there's a team that beat Kentucky by 20 and has a very good team. We're on the road, get a lead. Yes, we lose the lead, but we bounced back. ... So, in a sick sort of way, does it make it better that we win in the way we did? Last 8 minutes of the game, we didn't have a turnover after we turned the ball over a lot early. We executed well, we went on an 8-0 run ourselves, and I thought that spoke volumes about our team."
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