Michigan State basketball: 3 takeaways from comeback win at Nebraska

1. This team is good enough to make a legit run

Getting hot just in time for March? Must be a Tom Izzo-coached team.

Peaking at the perfect time, Michigan State has been lighting up the scoreboard lately and while the defense could use a reset button after falling off a bit recently, the Spartans are playing some of their best basketball of the season over the past five games.

Sure, their record is 3-2 in that span, but it probably should be 5-0 with wins at Michigan and at Iowa to go along with wins over Indiana, at Ohio State, and at Nebraska. The Spartans are a two-minute meltdown at Michigan and a 90-second colossal implosion away from being 5-0 during that tough span and sitting at 20-9 overall and in second place in the Big Ten standings — one Purdue slip-up away from a shared Big Ten title.

But that’s why college basketball is so great. You could be the better team for 38 or 39 minutes and lose because you can’t close.

Michigan State closed on Tuesday night and played one of its best halves of basketball of the season on both ends of the court. The Spartans are firing on all cylinders.

If this type of play can continue throughout the next month, we could see a surprise Final Four type of run. But it wouldn’t be a surprise to the fans who have watched this team play with every single team on the schedule.