Michigan State's schedule has been favorable. They have to keep winning
MSU basketball: A discussion on the 17-2 Spartans (video analysis) Lansing State Journal columnist Graham Couch and Detroit Free Press beat writer Chris Solari discuss MSU basketball from a pickleball court in Oregon. EAST LANSING – On paper, the next two games look easily winnable for Michigan State basketball. But this is the Big Ten. Nothing ever is as simple as it seems against conference competition. “I think ‘trap games’ for these are kind of a vague term in the Big Ten,” senior center Carson Cooper said after practice Thursday, Jan. 22. “In the Big Ten, everybody’s good and anybody can beat you on any given night.” The 10th-ranked Spartans (17-2, 7-1 Big Ten) host Maryland at noon...