Role call: MSU's back.(Brief Article)

The rugged Spartans have lots of star power, but they win big because of how well they play together. Soon, another title could be theirs.

The first thought that came to Jason Richardson after he helped cut down the nets Sunday in the Georgia Dome was to find a phone, call up his No. 1 fan and tell her all about Daddy's day.

One-year-old Jaela, whom Richardson calls "my sunshine," couldn't make it to Atlanta with the thousands of other Michigan State fans to watch Tom Izzo's Green Machine roll on to a third straight Final Four. She was back home with her mother in Saginaw, Mich. Money's kind of tight.

Maybe Minneapolis.

"She and her mother are not living too well right now," says Richardson, the Spartans' sensational sophomore. "That's something that's real important to me--to take care of my mother and my daughter."

One sure way to do that would be to enter his name in this summer's NBA draft, an option he has discussed often with Izzo. And Richardson isn't the only Spartan who could be looking at his last chance to win another national title. This could also be it for freshman center Zach Randolph, who played the best game of his college career against Temple in the South final. Randolph likewise is said to be strongly considering a move to the NBA.

Since Magic split in 1979, the closest the Spartans have come to losing someone unexpectedly to the NBA was last spring, when the Atlanta Hawks gave Tom Izzo 15 million reasons to turn pro. No top program has had better success at keeping stars in school than MSU, which has won this year the way it always does: with veterans and rugged rebounding.