IOWA CITY, Iowa – Tom Izzo was going off on one of the two officials on the court – the third couldn’t make it to Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Thursday – but Denzel Valentine knew those words were for him.

“It made me realize how bad I was playing,” Valentine said of a technical foul Izzo got with 25 seconds left in the first half and MSU trailing Iowa, 37-28. “It was kind of my fault because he was mad at me, how I was playing, and he kind of took it out on the ref. It was my fault, that tech.” - Read more at Freep.com