FightOnState.com: Hoop Preview — Michigan State:
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- DeChellis has lauded his team for playing with heart, even in losses. We’re about to see what kind of collective ticker the Lions have. The last three meetings in this series have all been PSU rollovers. With that in mind, Johnson, one of the few Lions who has not backed down from the Spartans, is happy there are so many new faces on his roster this year.
” ‘All the players that left, they weren’t exactly the toughest-minded people in the world,’ Johnson said. ‘We do have a tough team now. … I’m not gonna be pushed around. I refuse to be pushed around by anybody. A lot of the guys have the same mentality. If we do that against Michigan State, we’ll be fine.’ “