1. This MSU team is more than just toughness and grit

FORT MYERS, Fla. — At a certain point, we have to realize that this Michigan State basketball team is really good. I think that point is now.

It’s not just toughness and grit, relentless defense and rebounding, and discipline to get a good shot. That stuff sets the table. That’s the Spartans’ identity. But you don’t win a game like this — 74-58 over a talented North Carolina team — without also having shot-makers and the ability to produce offense time and time again.

My biggest question about this MSU team is still whether it has a guy whose greatest skill is getting buckets when the buckets aren’t coming easy, or when the other team finds a little momentum. A guy, for example, like North Carolina’s scary-good freshman star Caleb Wi

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