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Michigan State Basketball: 5 reasons Cassius Winston should return in 2019-20

By Connor Muldowney

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - MARCH 15: Cassius Winston #5 of the Michigan State Spartans celebrates after beating the Ohio State Buckeyes 77-70 during the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Basketball Tournament at the United Center on March 15, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - MARCH 15: Cassius Winston #5 of the Michigan State Spartans celebrates after beating the Ohio State Buckeyes 77-70 during the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Basketball Tournament at the United Center on March 15, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images) /
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MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA – APRIL 06: Head coach Tom Izzo of the Michigan State Spartans talks with Cassius Winston #5 in the second half against the Texas Tech Red Raiders during the 2019 NCAA Final Four semifinal at U.S. Bank Stadium on April 6, 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA – APRIL 06: Head coach Tom Izzo of the Michigan State Spartans talks with Cassius Winston #5 in the second half against the Texas Tech Red Raiders during the 2019 NCAA Final Four semifinal at U.S. Bank Stadium on April 6, 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images) /

1. Unfinished business

Though he has not officially declared for the NBA draft or announced his return, Cassius Winston posted a picture on Instagram shortly after losing to Texas Tech with the worst “unfinished business” in the caption.

Usually kids who plan on declaring and staying in the NBA draft don’t use those two words together, especially after making it to the Final Four and coming that close to winning the national title. He sounds like a soon-to-be senior captain who’s ready to put the team on his back one last time and try to bring home the hardware he set out to get when he committed back in 2016.

Winston doesn’t care about the personal awards nearly as much as the team ones. If you asked him, he’d tell you that the Big Ten titles and Final Four appearance meant far more to him than the Big Ten Player of the Year award as well as the national player of the year award consideration.

Unselfish players usually last a long time in college basketball, especially at Michigan State. I’m not saying that those who have left early are selfish, by any means, but he’s cut from the same cloth as Miles Bridges who loves college and wants to give Tom Izzo and the Spartans everything he has.

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Cassius has unfinished business, he even said so himself.

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