Those efforts, and a little help from their friends, spelled Minnesota’s for season sweep over their arch-rivals from America’s Dairyland for the first time since the 2002-03 season.
Kicking off its Los Angeles road trip with Saturday’s visit to the Galen Center, No. 7 Michigan State (18-3, 9-1 Big Ten) suffered its first loss of the Big Ten season to Southern California, 70-64.