This team is showing growth this year, IMO. In the past, we wouldn't have even been in a game when shooting 1-15 from 3-pt land, much less pull out a win. Before this game we were 1-4 when shooting under 30% on 3s, with a lone win against Murray State. The losses were against Northeastern, UCF, LSU, and Baylor by a total margin of 36 points.
Hall is becoming a much more rounded player on offense and is even shooting 75% on FTs. That's big because he gets more FT attempts than anyone on the team. Petty has shown more ability and willingness to play drive and post. They ran 4 post plays for him last night. He does still have work to do on ball security. Riley has stepped in and provided some leadership and good bench play.
But for the incompetence in coaching at MSU, we'd have lost this game.
More than missing the 3-point shots was our CHOICE to keep shooting them when we had a big lead and 4 minutes to go.