No. 6 Michigan State Visits Purdue on Sunday Afternoon

East Lansing, Mich. – Michigan State's men's basketball team plays the final road game of a five-game stretch with four on the road on Sunday, Jan. 27, visiting Purdue. Tipoff is slated for 1 p.m.

On the Air
The game will air live on CBS, with Kevin Harrlan calling the play-by-play and Clark Kellogg serving as the color analyst. The Spartan Sports Network radio call can be heard on one of 38 affiliates and on the web at SpartanSportsNetwork.com, with Will Tieman handling the play-by-play and Matt Steigenga serving as the color analyst. The game can also be heard on Sirius, XM and Internet 81.

Records
Michigan State, winners of its last 13 games and 18 of the last 19 overall, enters the game on Sunday with an 18-2 overall record and a 9-0 mark in the Big Ten. The Spartans are ranked No. 6 in the country in the Associated Press poll and No. 5 in the USA Today Coaches poll. Purdue, winners of four-straight games, enters Sunday with a 13-6 overall record and a 6-2 mark in league play.

Last Time Out
Junior guard Cassius Winston (Detroit, Mich./University of Detroit Jesuit) scored 23 points and had seven assists and junior forward Nick Ward (Gahanna, Ohio/Lincoln) finished with 21 points and 10 rebounds as No. 6 Michigan State used a big second half run to pull away from No. 19 en route to an 82-67 win at Carver-Hawkeye Arena Thursday night. Senior guard Matt McQuaid (Duncanville, Texas/Duncanville0 hit a trio of 3-pointers in the second half and finished with nine points, three rebounds and three assists, while redshirt senior Kenny Goins (Troy, Mich./Warren Mott) chipped in seven points, eight rebounds and two assists.

About the Spartans

Through 20 games, Winston leads the team with 18.3 points per game and 7.3 assists per game ... Winston is fifth in the Big Ten in scoring and is No. 5 in the country in assists per game.
Ward is second on the team with 16.0 points and third on the team with 7.1 rebounds ... He is 11th in the Big Ten in scoring, 12th in rebounding and ranks third in the league, and is No. 17 nationally in field goal percentage, connecting on 63.2 percent of his shots
Junior guard Joshua Langford (Huntsville, Ala./Madison Academy) is third on the team in scoring with 15.0 points per game, while adding 3.6 rebounds and 2.3 assists.
McQuaid is averaging 8.4 points, 2.7 rebounds and 2.2 assists ... Sophomore forward Xavier Tillman (Grand Rapids, Mich./GR Christian) is scoring 8.2 points per game and is second on the team with 7.2 rebounds, while Goins is sixth on the team in scoring with 7.1 points and leads the team with 9.6 rebounds per game, which ranks No. 31 nationally
Redshirt junior Kyle Ahrens (Versailles, Ohio/Versailles) is averaging 5.8 points and 2.7 rebounds and freshman Aaron Henry (Indianapolis, Ind./Ben Davis), who has started the last four games, is averaging 5.2 points and 2.9 rebounds.
MSU ranks No. 19 in the country in scoring offense (83.8 ppg), No. 6 in field goal percentage (50.0%) and No. 3 in field goal percentage defense (36.7%).

The Series

Michigan State and Purdue meet for the 124th time on Sunday, Jan. 27.
Purdue leads the all-time series with Michigan State, 68-55 ... The Spartans have won 26 of the last 38 games in the series, including 10 of the last 13.
MSU won the first meeting between the teams this season, 77-59, on Jan. 8 at the Breslin Center.
MSU Head Coach Tom Izzo is 26-16 in his career against Purdue.

About Purdue

Since their 77-59 loss to Michigan State on Jan. 8 at the Breslin Center, the Boilermakers have won four-straight games ... Purdue is coming off a 79-67 win at Ohio State … Purdue is 9-0 at home, including a 4-0 mark in Big Ten play.
Junior guard Carsen Edwards leads the Big Ten in scoring with 24.7 points per game, while adding 3.3 rebounds and 3.5 assists ... He leads the team with 73 3-pointers, connecting on a league-best 3.8 per game.
Senior guard Ryan Cline is second on the team with 12.6 points per game and is second on the team with 3.3 assists ... Cline is also second on the team in 3-pointers, connecting on 59 (41.8 percent).
Senior center Matt Haarms is third on the team with 7.7 points and second with 4.5 rebounds, while senior forward Grady Eifert is averaging 5.1 points and leads the team with 5.1 rebounds per game.
Purdue is third in the Big Ten in scoring offense (78.2 ppg) and 11th in the league in scoring defense (66.2 ppg)

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Players Mentioned

Kyle Ahrens

Kenny Goins

Aaron Henry

Joshua Langford

Matt McQuaid

Xavier Tillman Sr.

Nick Ward

Cassius Winston