IZZO - DRAWING IT UP

Michigan State shooting guard Durrell Summers scored a big uncontested basket near the end of Saturday night's win over Connecticut in the national semifinal off an in-bound play.

"From the beginning of his career, coach has always been awesome with special teams, as he calls them," said assistant coach Dwayne Stephens. "We break it down like football. It's something we put a lot of time into it.

"I don't think a lot of teams spend a lot of times on special teams. We feel if we can score anywhere from five to 10 points on BLOBS (baseline out-of-bounds plays) and SLOBS (sideline out-of-bounds) it gives us an advantage."

Other special teams plays include the opening tip and defending those areas.

"Coach talks a lot about executing on plays out of timeouts and I think that's something we've done a pretty good job of all season, especially (against UConn)," Summers said. "We executed it to a T, they bit like we thought they would and I was able to get an easy uncontested layup.