Tuesday, February 12
Madison, Wis.
7 PM ET
Michigan State University
at
Wisconsin
No. 11 Michigan State Plays at No. 20 Wisconsin Tuesday Night
2/11/2019 3:43:00 PM | Men's Basketball
East Lansing, Mich. – Michigan State's men's basketball team hits the road again for a matchup on Tuesday, Feb. 12 at Wisconsin. Tipoff for the game is slated for 7 p.m. This will be the sixth road game in the last nine games for the Spartans.
The game will air live on ESPN2, with Dave Flemming calling the play-by-play, Dan Dakich serving as the color analyst and Molly McGrath 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 99, XM 195 and Internet 957.
Records
Michigan State, coming off a 79-55 win over Minnesota on Saturday, enters the game with a 19-5 overall record and a 10-3 mark in the Big Ten. The Spartans are ranked No. 11 in the country in the Associated Press poll and No. 12 in the USA Today Coaches poll. Wisconsin, which had a six-game win streak end in a loss to Michigan on Saturday, is 17-7 (9-4) and ranked No. 20 in the AP poll and No. 23 in the USA Today Coaches poll.
Last Time Out
Junior forward Nick Ward (Gahanna, Ohio/Lincoln) scored 22 points and had nine rebounds, while senior guard Matt McQuaid (Duncanville, Texas/Duncanville) added a season-high 18 points and a career-high eight assists as No. 9 Michigan State beat Minnesota, 79-55, at the Breslin Center on Saturday afternoon … Junior guard Cassius Winston (Detroit, Mich./University of Detroit Jesuit) added 11 points and nine assists for the Spartans, who connected on 51.7 percent of their shots from the floor.
About the Spartans
The game will air live on ESPN2, with Dave Flemming calling the play-by-play, Dan Dakich serving as the color analyst and Molly McGrath 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 99, XM 195 and Internet 957.
Records
Michigan State, coming off a 79-55 win over Minnesota on Saturday, enters the game with a 19-5 overall record and a 10-3 mark in the Big Ten. The Spartans are ranked No. 11 in the country in the Associated Press poll and No. 12 in the USA Today Coaches poll. Wisconsin, which had a six-game win streak end in a loss to Michigan on Saturday, is 17-7 (9-4) and ranked No. 20 in the AP poll and No. 23 in the USA Today Coaches poll.
Last Time Out
Junior forward Nick Ward (Gahanna, Ohio/Lincoln) scored 22 points and had nine rebounds, while senior guard Matt McQuaid (Duncanville, Texas/Duncanville) added a season-high 18 points and a career-high eight assists as No. 9 Michigan State beat Minnesota, 79-55, at the Breslin Center on Saturday afternoon … Junior guard Cassius Winston (Detroit, Mich./University of Detroit Jesuit) added 11 points and nine assists for the Spartans, who connected on 51.7 percent of their shots from the floor.
About the Spartans
- Through 24 games, Winston leads the team with 18.6 points per game and 7.4 assists per game ... Winston is fourth in the Big Ten in scoring and is No. 5 in the country in assists per game.
- Ward is second on the team with 15.5 points and third on the team with 6.7 rebounds ... He is ninth in the Big Ten in scoring, 16th in rebounding and ranks fourth in the league, and is No. 20 nationally in field goal percentage, connecting on 61.2 percent of his shots ...
- McQuaid is averaging 8.7 points, 3.0 rebounds and 2.4 assists.
- Sophomore forward Xavier Tillman (Grand Rapids, Mich./GR Christian) is scoring 8.6 points per game, is second on the team with 6.9 rebounds and is third in the Big Ten in field goal percentage (63.4 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 8.9 rebounds per game, which ranks No. 45 nationally.
- Redshirt junior Kyle Ahrens (Versailles, Ohio/Versailles) is averaging 5.8 points and 2.8 rebounds (7.5 ppg, 3.6 rpg in eight starts) and freshman Aaron Henry (Indianapolis, Ind./Ben Davis) is averaging 4.8 points and 2.9 rebounds.
- MSU ranks No. 26 in the country in scoring offense (81.9 ppg), No. 7 in field goal percentage (49.5%) and No. 3 in field goal percentage defense (37.1%).
- The game on Tuesday will be the 145th meeting all-time between MSU and Wisconsin.
- Michigan State leads the all-time series with Wisconsin, 80-64, including three wins last year ... The Badgers have a 46-25 advantage in games played in Madison.
- The home team has won 20 of the last 23 games played on a college campus, with the lone exceptions being MSU's wins in Madison in 2012, 2013 and 2018.
- Tom Izzo is 29-20 in his career against Wisconsin.
- Wisconsin is 9-2 at home, including 4-2 in league play, with losses to Minnesota (59-52) and Purdue (84-80 OT).
- Senior forward Ethan Happ leads the team in scoring (18.3 ppg), rebounding (10.5 rpg) and assists (4.9 apg) ... He is fifth in the league in scoring, third in rebounding and third in assists.
- Redshirt sophomore guard D'Mitrick Price is second on the team with 13.2 points and leads the team with 61 3-point field goals, while sophomore guard Brad Davison is third on the team with 11.1 points and has connected on 41 shots from long distance.
- Sophomore forward Nate Reuvers is averaging 8.4 points, 3.3 rebounds and 20 blocks per game.
- The Badgers rank 11th in the league in scoring offense (70.6 ppg) and second in scoring defense (61.0 ppg).
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