- not much to complain about with the offense. Nova has made a choice…pack it in and live with what MSU does shooting the ball. Still, largely great movement from the Spartans is generating good looks and they have been dialed in.  Fairly minimal mistakes as well. 

- defensively, I think it’s largely been a good effort. Nova runs good stuff and you see how patient they are in trying to hunt mismatches.  They’ve gotten Dixon loose a few times but not much else.  MSU on the perimeter has been pretty damned good. 

- EfforT and toughness remains consistent with what we’ve seen so far this year.  No let up, no fat and sassy on display.  20 more like that and they’ll get the W