Of everything about last season that had Tom Izzo and Michigan State’s coaching staff feeling queasy all offseason, nothing rankled as much as the Spartans’ defensive performance. The 2020-21 Spartans allowed opponents to shoot 42.6 percent from the field, the highest mark since Izzo’s second season. Its final defensive efficiency ranking, 46th, was the program’s worst in more than a decade.
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