Michigan State Basketball: Watch Spartans react to tourney selection (Video)

Michigan State basketball players were anticipating an NCAA Tournament berth and here’s how they reacted once it was announced.

It’s hard to believe that the 2016-17 Michigan State basketball regular season has already come and gone, but it’s refreshing to see the Spartans make the NCAA Tournament. It wasn’t the easiest of roads to get to the Big Dance, but the young Spartans made it happen.

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The Spartans weren’t sure that they’d get in until the final week of the season and even during the CBS Selection Show, they were sweating it out.

In fact, just watch the reaction of the team after Michigan State was announced as a No. 9 seed playing in the Midwest Region against Miami:

Pretty cool clip and it was nice to hear Tum Tum Nairn, Miles Bridges and Alvin Ellis III talk about what it means and how to stay level-headed. Each player seemed to remain focused on the task at hand while not getting too excited about the invite.

This is Tom Izzo’s 20th straight season of making the NCAA Tournament and you could tell he wanted to get down to business and show the rest of the field what his Spartans can truly do when focused on the prize.

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How far do you see this Michigan State team going? After a tumultuous regular season, it’s possible that the Spartans rally together for one last deep run.