This is a loaded MSU team, too, right? Like all of their sweet 16 back? And we walk in there and beat them in their packed arena. Without our two all SEC starters.
Yeah, this is gonna be a FUN season.
Yeah, it said they were ranked #5. So they must have everyone back. But to be fair, Izzo's teams are notoriously slow starters. They'll be much, much better in March than they are now. Still, to go in there and win without Santi and ZZ is impressive.
Barnes' biggest problem may be figuring out the rotation. When fully healthy, we're going to have at least 3-4 really, really good players that get shorted on minutes.