No. 6 Michigan State Hosts Indiana on Saturday Night

East Lansing, Mich. – Michigan State's men's basketball team returns back home to the Breslin Center on Saturday, Feb. 2, hosting Indiana at 6 p.m. ESPN College GameDay, with hosts Rece Davis, Jay Bilas, Seth Greenberg and Jay Williams, will broadcast live from the Breslin Center beginning at 11 a.m.

On the Air
The game will air live on ESPN, with Dan Shulman calling the play-by-play, Bilas serving as the color analyst and Maria Taylor on sidelines. 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 78, XM 210 and Internet 965.

Records
Michigan State, winners of 13 of its last 14 games and 19 of its last 20 games, enters the game on Saturday with an 18-3 overall record and a 9-1 mark in the Big Ten. The Spartans are ranked No. 6 in the country in the Associated Press poll and No. 8 in the USA Today Coaches poll. Indiana has lost seven-straight games and enters the game with a 12-9 overall record and a 3-7 mark in league play.

Last Time Out
No. 6 Michigan State trailed by as many as 23 points in the second half and pulled to within four points late, but would get no closer in a 73-63 loss to Purdue at Mackey Arena Sunday afternoon … Junior guard Cassius Winston (Detroit, Mich./University of Detroit Jesuit) scored 23 points, had seven rebounds and eight assists to lead the way for the Spartans, while senior guard Matt McQuaid (Duncanville, Texas/Duncanville) added 12 points.

About the Spartans

Through 21 games, Winston leads the team with 18.5 points per game and 7.3 assists per game ... Winston is tied for fourth in the Big Ten in scoring and is No. 5 in the country in assists per game.
Junior forward Nick Ward (Gahanna, Ohio/Lincoln) is second on the team with 15.6 points and third on the team with 6.9 rebounds ... He is 11th in the Big Ten in scoring, tied for 14th in rebounding and ranks fifth in the league, and is No. 20 nationally in field goal percentage, connecting on 62.0 percent of his shots ...
McQuaid is averaging 8.6 points, 2.9 rebounds and 2.1 assists, while sophomore forward Xavier Tillman (Grand Rapids, Mich./GR Christian) is scoring 8.1 points per game, is second on the team with 7.0 rebounds and is fourth in the Big Ten in field goal percentage (62.5 percent).
Redshirt senior Kenny Goins (Troy, Mich./Warren Mott) is sixth on the team in scoring with 7.0 points and leads the team with 9.4 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 five games, is averaging 5.1 points and 3.0 rebounds ... As a starter, Henry is averaging 7.6 points and 3.4 rebounds.
MSU ranks No. 26 in the country in scoring offense (82.8 ppg), No. 11 in field goal percentage (49.6%) and No. 3 in field goal percentage defense (36.7%).

The Series

Indiana leads the all-time series with Michigan State, 68-55.
The Spartans hold a 38-22 advantage in games played at home.
MSU has won 13 of the last 18 games in the series and 15 of the last 22 ... The Spartans have won the last four games played at the Breslin Center.

About Indiana

Indiana is 1-7 on the road overall and 1-5 in league play ... Their lone win on the road was a 64-62 win at Penn State on Dec. 4.
Freshman guard Romeo Langford is averaging 17.3 points, 5.4 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game ... He is sixth in the Big Ten in scoring.
Senior forward Juwan Morgan is second on the team with 16.4 points and leads the team with 8.0 rebounds ... Morgan is ninth in the league in scoring and seventh in rebounding.
The Hoosiers have four other players averaging at least 6.0 points per game … Freshman guard Rob Phinisee is averaging 6.7 points and a team-best 2.5 assists.
Indiana ranks 10th in the Big Ten in scoring offense (72.0 ppg) and eighth in scoring defense (66.3 ppg).

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Players Mentioned

Kyle Ahrens

Kenny Goins

Aaron Henry

Matt McQuaid

Xavier Tillman Sr.

Nick Ward

Cassius Winston