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Michigan State Basketball: Why Spartans can become 2019 national champs

By Patrick Kayser

Tom Izzo, Michigan State basketball (Photo by Rey Del Rio/Getty Images)
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EAST LANSING, MI – MARCH 09: Kenny Goins #25 of the Michigan State Spartans reacts after defeating the Michigan Wolverines 75-63 at Breslin Center on March 9, 2019 in East Lansing, Michigan. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)
EAST LANSING, MI – MARCH 09: Kenny Goins #25 of the Michigan State Spartans reacts after defeating the Michigan Wolverines 75-63 at Breslin Center on March 9, 2019 in East Lansing, Michigan. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images) /

4. Playing for Kenny Goins, Matt McQuaid

This team wants to get Matt McQuaid and Kenny Goins deep into this tournament. They made it over the hump, they made it back to the Sweet 16. Now it’s time to go even further.

Matt McQuaid has never experienced the second weekend. Kenny Goins, while he was on the Final Four team in 2015, was redshirting, so he did not play. Both of them know that in a blink of an eye, their career at Michigan State could be over.

They don’t want that to happen until they are cutting down the nets in Minneapolis.

Goins is going to have to shoot well, and McQuaid is going to have to keep playing as he has been. But the team is there to back him up. They want to get deep in the tournament for them badly. This will be a driving force, one that cannot be stopped.

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