Resuming Spartans’ loss to UCLA

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No. 9 Michigan State fell another close to Tuesday as the Spartans fell, 63-61 to UCLA.

After winning 13 straight matches, the Spartans are now finding back against back-to-back losses for the first time this season.

Turnover and shooting limited Michigan State in this latest loss as the Spartans turned the ball over 16 times and shot only 37.7% off the field.

They had several opportunities to take the lead in the last 2 minutes, but UCLA would get the playful bucket and secure what was its sixth equal victory.

Our Aidan Champion regains Tuesday’s competition for this latest postgame edition of Michigan State Spartan’s Insider Podcast.

You can see the episode below:

Michigan State coach Tom Izzo approached the media after Tuesday’s loss. Below is a partial transcription from his opening declaration:

Izzo: “Well, I’m not sure we deserved to win the game as we played in the middle of it. I said that at USC we didn’t compete as hard as we normally do. We turned the ball over a slightly too much , and we missed a lot of free kick. That pretty good. A job with them, and as I said, we played well enough;

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