Travis Walton won't get much credit for Michigan State's 77-62 win over Michigan Sunday. Scoring one point tends to leave you under the radar. But Walton's defensive effort against Michigan's Manny Harris was quite impressive.

Walton held Harris, Michigan's leading scorer, to 11 points on 4-of-14 shooting. He kept Harris out of the lane most of the day and forced Harris to take mostly contested shots.

Walton said freshman Kalin Lucas deserves an assist for his defense. Seems Lucas, a good friend of Harris', needled Walton all week with made-up trash talk that got Walton extra fired up for the game.

"I was telling Travis how Manny was talking stuff when actually he wasn't," Lucas said. "I was just getting him pumped up and juiced for the game and it worked."

What exactly was Lucas saying?

"I was just saying, 'Manny said you too little, you too small, you're 6-1, you can't hold him, you can't check him,'" Lucas said. "I just had to get in Travis' head a little bit and Travis went out there and played great defense."