EAST LANSING – Way up for five minutes, way down for the next five, Tom Izzo has a team that can look like a Final Four darkhorse and an NIT hopeful in the same half.

After Sunday’s exhausting 84-77 overtime win over Northwestern – which saw MSU blow double-digit leads twice and come back from deficits twice – Izzo would have been forgiven for taking solace in a week of three games and three wins, and for an outcome that balanced out some of the late-game failures of earlier losses. - Read more at Freep.com