Harris isn't one to drive to the basket and create contact, but he shoots well enough and creates enough clean opportunities to score plenty of points regardless. ![]() Gary Harris, So.: The shooting guard from Fishers, Ind., was excellent in his first collegiate season last year, shooting 45.6 percent from the floor and an impressive 65-of-158 (41.1 percent) from three-point range all that was good enough to earn him Big Ten Freshman of the Year honors. With six men returning from an eight-man rotation last year, the preseason polls have good reason to be high on Michigan State. Brandan Kearney, a sophomore last season, transferred to the Arizona State Sun Devils. Along with returning starters Gary Harris, Keith Appling, Adreian Payne and Branden Dawson, two of the three bench players to average more than 10 minutes per game last season also return - part-time starter Denzel Valentine and Travis Trice. 3 seed before a 71-61 loss to the Duke Blue Devils sent the Spartans home in the Sweet 16. Michigan State won two NCAA tournament games as a No. The Spartans return four starters from last year's team, which tied for second in the Big Ten and lost to the conference tournament champion Ohio State Buckeyes in the semifinals. ![]() In the Blue Ribbon and Lindy's preseason polls linked above, Michigan State has the top ranking, and it's easy to rationalize that decision. No matter your source for preseason polling - here's one at CBS, here's another at Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook, and here's yet another at Lindy's - the nearly unanimous top three are the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals and Michigan State Spartans.
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