Michigan State Earns Big Ten Title, But It Wasn’t Easy

The Wisconsin Badgers lost the final game of the regular season, but they went down fighting.  The heavily-favored Michigan State Spartans finally prevailed at the Kohl Center Sunday afternoon 68-63.  The Spartans’ 12th straight win earned them the Big Ten Conference title.  Freshman Brad Davison led the scrappy Badgers with 30 points.  He was sidelined momentarily in the second half when he aggravated his injured left shoulder, but he came back out of the locker room and his team’s next six straight points to charge up the crowd.  Cassius Winston scored 20 points and was six-for-six on 3-pointers for Michigan State.  Wisconsin carries the number-nine seed into this week’s conference tournament, playing Maryland Thursday.