No. 10 Michigan State Visits No. 7 Michigan on Sunday Afternoon

East Lansing, Mich. – Michigan State's men's basketball team hits the road on Sunday for the first of two meetings during the final two weeks of the regular season with in-state rival Michigan. The Spartans, ranked No. 10 in the Associated Press poll, and the Wolverines, ranked No. 7, tip off at 3:45 p.m.

The game will air live on CBS, with Spero Dedes calling the play-by-play and Bill Raftery and Grant Hill serving as the analysts. 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, coming off a 71-60 win over Rutgers on Wednesday, has won four-straight games and enters with a 22-5 overall and a 13-3 mark in the Big Ten Conference. Michigan, coming off a 69-60 win at Minnesota on Thursday, is 24-3 overall and 13-3 in the league, tied with the Spartans for first place.

Last Time Out
Junior guard Cassius Winston (Detroit, Mich./University of Detroit Jesuit) scored 28 points and handed out eight assists as No. 10 Michigan State used a big second half to come from behind to beat Rutgers, 71-60, in a Big Ten Conference game at the Breslin Center on Wednesday night ... Sophomore forward Xavier Tillman (Grand Rapids, Mich./GR Christian) had a double-double 19 points and 10 rebounds, while senior guard Matt McQuaid (Duncanville, Texas/Duncanville) chipped in 11 points and five rebounds and redshirt senior Kenny Goins added five points and a game-high 12 rebounds ... Trailing 40-33 in the second half, MSU used a 20-3 run to take a 53-43 lead following a Winston 3-pointer and a layup from Goins with 8:01 to play.

About the Spartans

Through 27 games, Winston leads the team with 18.9 points per game and 7.4 assists per game ... Winston is fourth in the Big Ten in scoring and is No. 4 in the country in assists per game.
McQuaid is averaging 8.8 points, 3.0 rebounds and 2.4 assists … He is among the leaders in the Big Ten Conference in 3-point shooting, connecting on 44.1 percent of his shots.
Tillman is scoring 8.7 points per game, is second on the team with 7.0 rebounds and is third in the Big Ten in field goal percentage (61.5 percent).
Redshirt senior Kenny Goins (Troy, Mich./Warren Mott) is sixth on the team in scoring with 7.2 points and leads the team with 9.0 rebounds per game, which ranks No. 45 nationally.
Redshirt junior Kyle Ahrens (Versailles, Ohio/Versailles) is averaging 5.5 points and 2.7 rebounds (7.5 ppg, 3.6 rpg in eight starts) and freshman Aaron Henry (Indianapolis, Ind./Ben Davis) is averaging 4.8 points and 3.1 rebounds (6.1 ppg, 3.8 rpg in 10 starts).
MSU ranks among the top-10 in the country in 10 different statistical categories ... The Spartans rank No. 36 in the country in scoring offense (80.2 ppg), No. 19 in field goal percentage (48.6%), No. 44 in scoring defense (65.6 ppg) and No. 3 in field goal percentage defense (37.2%).

The Series

Michigan State and Michigan meet for the 182nd time on Sunday.
Michigan leads the all-time series with Michigan State, 100-81.
MSU has won 25 of the last 37 games overall.
Michigan has won the last three meetings, including a pair last year
Tom Izzo is 25-17 in his career against the Wolverines.

About Michigan

Freshman Ignas Brazdeikis leads the team in scoring with 14.4 points per game, while adding 5.1 rebounds.
Sophomore guard Jordan Poole is tied for second on the team with 13.1 points and leads the team in 3-pointers, with 59, which is tied for eighth in the Big Ten.
Senior guard Charles Matthews is tied for second on the team with 13.1 points per game and is second on the team with 5.3 rebounds.
Junior guard Zavier Simpson is averaging 8.9 points and leads the team with 6.2 assists per game.
Junior center Jon Teske is averaging 9.3 points and leads the team with 6.4 rebounds.
Michigan ranks eighth in the Big Ten in scoring offense (70.3 ppg) and is first in the league in scoring defense (57.7 ppg).