Yahoo Sports’ Caroline Fenton, Jason Fitz and basketball analyst Isis ‘Ice’ Young discuss the Spartans’ chances of surviving the Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight weekend to advance to San Antonio. Hear the full conversation on the “College Basketball Enquirer” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

Ok, so I picked Michigan State to go to the Final Four.

my bold prediction is that they’re not gonna make it there.

I, I, I want Michigan State to make it there because they’re a deep basketball team and they’re a good basketball team.

But we, we got two straight games where they come out of the gate so slow and they come out of the gates like they’ve, like I talked earlier about how you have to have killer instinct.

The, the minute Michigan State takes on a team that can shoot and, and they, they bury themselves into that 1012 point first half hole that they’ve done every time.

I can’t figure out why they’re so good.

Caroline, you said earlier, don’t look at the box score, watch the game.

Don’t look at the box score for the last two wins for Michigan State.

watched the first half, those games, they, they, they were ugly.

It looked like it wasn’t right.

And so as much as I think Michigan State genuinely has the depth and the talent to literally win the national championship, I no longer trust them to survive the slow first half starts.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re out this weekend.