


"The play of the game was Suton's rebound," Purdue coach Matt Painter said.

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It was tied at 73 when Goran Suton grabbed Walton's miss for the last of his 10 rebounds and hit one free throw for his 12th point. The Spartans built a 16-point lead in the first half, then fell behind by five with 5:52 left. But I've been telling you for a couple of weeks that I wasn't pleased. "It was probably the strangest game I've ever seen that way. "The stats were very misleading," Izzo said. Reserve Kalin Lucas scored 16 points, Durrell Summers had 15 and Morgan added 14 for the Spartans, who shot 61 percent from the field. "They took our car from us, and that can't happen," Walton said after giving all the credit for his basket to ball rotation and a pass from Raymar Morgan. "The toughest team lost by a couple of points tonight, and that wasn't us." "Players play, tough players win," Izzo said, repeating one of his favorite sayings. Travis Walton hit his only basket of the game, an uncontested 15-footer with 20 seconds left, then grabbed a rebound and added two free throws to give Michigan State (14-1, 2-0 Big Ten) its 11th straight win. (AP) - Tom Izzo said Michigan State got punched in the mouth and didn't hit back.īut his sixth-ranked Spartans covered up long enough for a 78-75 victory over Purdue on Tuesday night, thanks to some unlikely offense from their toughest player.
