3 takeaways from Michigan State basketball's crushing loss at Indiana

Down 17 in the first half, it felt like one of those typical Michigan State basketball road games where the Spartans would be run out of the gym. But the Spartans perked up in the final nine minutes of the first half, pulling within five.

In the second half, Michigan State was hot, coming out hitting threes left and right to build a six-point lead. The massive turnaround could be attributed to strong defense and Tyson Walker getting hot.

Michigan State built up a seven-point lead at one point, but Indiana quickly erased that with an 8-0 run to regain the lead with under eight minutes to play. The game was then tied with a minute left, just as we all expected after the first few minutes of the game (sarcasm).

Indiana was able to pull out a 65-64 win.

What'd we learn form this thriller?

3. Play-calls out of timeouts continue to be a disaster

I can point to three critical plays out of timeouts in this game that resulted in no points and horrible shot attempts. And that has to be on Tom Izzo because, who else calls the plays?

Sure, a lot of this is about execution, but it didn't even feel like there were any options to these play-calls. The first was a rushed, contested 3-point attempt in the corner by Jaden Akins that was too strong and then there was a contested falling-away floater by Tyson Walker that had no shot of going in, and then there was the last play-call to end the game. Walker drove the lane and attempted a contested shot with no offensive movement, just an iso. It wasn't close.

Izzo has to figure this out because this has been a problem for years and it continued on Sunday evening and led to a one-point loss.