'Monster' Tarris Reed Jr. has Michigan State basketball prepping
Tarris Reed Jr. didn't face Michigan State basketball in Connecticut's exhibition win. The Spartans know they must stop the ex-U-M center this time.
EAST LANSING – To say Tarris Reed Jr. has the full attention of Michigan State basketball would be an understatement. Because there is no overstating just how seismic a statline of 31 points and 27 rebounds in an NCAA Tournament game is.
Regardless of who it came against. “I don’t care who you are, that’s impressive for anybody,” forward Jaxon Kohler said after the Spartans ’ practice Monday, March 23. “So a lot of respect to him.
” But it isn’t just because the Connecticut star center put up big numbers. It’s also because Reed didn’t play when MSU lost to the Huskies in an Oct. 28 exhibition game in Hartford, Connecticut.
And even though Kohler and Carson Cooper played against the UConn star four times while he was at Michigan, Reed is a markedly different player in his final season than he was two years ago. FAMILIAR FACES: Michigan State basketball Sweet 16 draw brings all the coaching love And five months later, he makes the Huskies a much different challenge in the Sweet 16 than the one the Spartans faced when the game didn’t count. “There’s only so much that you can look at that film and say what we did great or what we couldn’t do.
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