THE ESSENTIALS WHAT #86 Michigan (7-13, 2-7 B10) vs #18 MSU (12-8, 4-5 B10) WHERE Breslin Center East Lansing, MI WHEN 9:00 PM THE LINE Kenpom: MSU-11 Torvik: MSU-10 TELEVISION Peacock (link) THE OVERVIEW Around the same time they were buckling my daughter into the Zamboni last Saturday, and on the opposite end of the lot, the Michigan men's basketball team was doing its own kind of buckling, welcoming new football coach Sherrone Moore with a double-digit promise not to be a distraction. The 10-point home loss to Iowa undid a 10-point win at Carver-Hawkeye, easily Michigan's best conference victory in the last two years. Michigan's now lost three in a row, and eight of their nine. At least the one win in there was a rival, but that's about all their next matchup has in common with uncanny shooting night at home versus Ohio State. In contrast to Michigan and most of the conference, MSU's defense has only been improving over the course of the season. Early losses