Valentine Leads Spartans Past Maryland, 64-61, And Into Big Ten Championship
Valentine made it clear Friday night that the Spartans are playing for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
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Valentine made it clear Friday night that the Spartans are playing for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
Coming off victories over Northwestern and No. 1 seed Indiana, the eighth-seeded Wolverines (22-12) were playing their third game in three days.
Big Ten player of the year Denzel Valentine scored 19 points and Eron Harris added 13 to help No. 2 Michigan State blow out Ohio State 81-54.
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Michigan could not afford a loss in its opening game of the Big Ten Tournament and expect to get an NCAA Tournament invite.
The Indiana Hoosiers took a long, hard road to winning the Big Ten title.
Denzel Valentine of Michigan State is Big Ten player of the year in voting by the coaches and a unanimous pick to their all-conference first team.
Derrick Walton scored 14 points for Michigan, which honored seniors Caris LeVert and Spike Albrecht before the regular-season finale.
Valentine had 27 points and matched a career high with 13 assists in the last home game, helping the second-ranked Spartans beat the Buckeyes 91-76.
This battle features two senior candidates who are also have garnered national player of the year consideration: Michigan State's Denzel Valentine and Iowa's Jarrod Uthoff, though Valentine appears to have the edge.
The thought of Indiana winning even a sliver of the Big Ten title seemed far-fetched in January.
For 20-plus minutes Thursday night, No. 18 Indiana was in a tough game at Illinois.
Iowa is officially in a slump.
"This is the kind of year we dreamed of," Costello said. "We've put our time in here, into this program, both of us. It just goes to show if you do the right thing long enough, it'll work out for you."
"I think there's been some bizarre injuries — and more than one," Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said. "If it's one, you can survive it. If it gets to be two and three, I think that changes it."
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Iowa has swept fellow Big Ten teams Michigan State and Purdue and the Hawkeyes beat Wichita State early in the season.
Duncan Robinson's backdoor cut for a dunk put the Wolverines up six points, and they made all 10 of their free throws in the last 3 minutes.
With Rutgers coming off its worst home loss, Iowa junior guard Peter Jok understood that the No. 9 Hawkeyes were going to be pushed a little by the struggling Scarlet Knights.
Michigan shot 9 of 31 from 3-point range, snapping a streak of seven games in which the Wolverines had made at least 10 shots from beyond the arc.
Denzel Valentine missed a shot just before the buzzer to allow Nebraska to hold on for a 72-71 win over Michigan State on Wednesday night.
The Spartans had a final chance to win, but Denzel Valentine missed a 3-pointer and Matt Costello's last-second side jumper bounced off the rim.
Derrick Walton Jr. had 16 points for Michigan (13-5, 3-2). The Wolverines played their fourth straight game without star Caris LeVert, who was out with a left leg injury.
Stanford, 45-16 winners over Iowa in the Rose Bowl, finished third in the final poll, followed by Ohio State, Oklahoma and Michigan State.
Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman scored a career-high 25 points on 10-of-16 shooting. Derrick Walton Jr. added 12 points as Michigan (12-4, 2-1) had its six-game winning streak snapped.
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