Note: Tom Izzo’s national champion runner-ups may be off to a respectable 12-3 start but few of those wins have quality written over them. In fact, they’ve turned over the ball in their three toughest tests of the season – losing to UNC, Florida and Texas. What’s worse is their money-burning 5-7 ATS log this season, including 2-5 ATS versus a foe off a SU win. They’ll face another tough test this evening when surprising Minnesota comes to town. Tubby Smith has his Golden Gophers off to an 12-4 start and will be armed with triple revenge from last season that included a Big Ten Conference Tourney knock-out. With Minny a perfect 2-0 SU and ATS with triple conference revenge, we’ll look for the Spartans to fail again here tonight.