Unfortunately for Kalin Lucas, doing what a conference player of the year is supposed to do likely cost him his chances of repeating as the Big Ten's Player of the Year.

Lucas tried to do Feb. 2 what he's done all year for Tom Izzo—take games over.

In the midst of a 67-49 blow-out in Madison, Wisconsin, Lucas descended awkwardly from a jump shot and throttled his ankle on the foot of the Badgers' Keaton Nankivil.

After grimacing in pain for what seemed like an eternity to Spartan fans, Lucas was helped off the floor and into the locker room. 

Diagnosed as a high-ankle sprain, Lucas was forced to sit out in the Spartans' 78-73 loss in Champaign-Urbana to Bruce Weber's Illinois Fighting Illini.