Saturday, March 2
Bloomington, Ind.
noon ET
Michigan State University
at
Indiana
Photo by: Matthew Mitchell
No. 6 Michigan State Plays at Indiana on Saturday Afternoon
3/1/2019 11:37:00 AM | Men's Basketball
East Lansing, Mich. – Michigan State's men's basketball team plays its final regular season Big Ten Conference road game of the season on Saturday, March 2, visiting Indiana at Assembly Hall. The Spartans, ranked No. 6 in the Associated Press Top 25 and No. 8 in the USA Today Coaches poll, will tip off against the Hoosiers at noon.
The game will air live on FOX, with Gus Johnson calling the play-by-play, Jim Jackson serving as the analyst and Lisa Byington 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, XM and Internet 84.
Records
Michigan State, coming off a 77-70 win at then-No. 7 Michigan, has won five-straight games and enters with a 23-5 overall and a 14-3 mark in the Big Ten Conference. Indiana, coming off a 75-73 double overtime win over Wisconsin, enters with a 14-14 overall record and a 5-12 mark in conference play.
Last Time Out
Junior guard Cassius Winston (Detroit, Mich./University of Detroit Jesuit) scored 19 of his game-high 27 points in the second half as No. 10 Michigan State beat No. 7 Michigan, 77-70 at the Crisler Center last Sunday ... Redshirt senior Kenny Goins (Troy, Mich./Warren Mott) had a double-double with 16 points and 11 rebounds, while sophomore forward Xavier Tillman (Grand Rapids, Mich./GR Christian) had 14 points and five rebounds and senior guard Matt McQuaid (Duncanville, Texas/Duncanville) finished with 13 points and five rebounds ... Goins scored 13 of his 16 points in the first half, hitting a trio of 3-pointers, while Winston scored 19 of his game-high 27 points in the second half ... Michigan State connected on 50.0 percent of its field goals (24-of-48), including 56.0 percent in the first half (14-of-25), and held Michigan to only 39.7 percent shooting.
About the Spartans
The game will air live on FOX, with Gus Johnson calling the play-by-play, Jim Jackson serving as the analyst and Lisa Byington 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, XM and Internet 84.
Records
Michigan State, coming off a 77-70 win at then-No. 7 Michigan, has won five-straight games and enters with a 23-5 overall and a 14-3 mark in the Big Ten Conference. Indiana, coming off a 75-73 double overtime win over Wisconsin, enters with a 14-14 overall record and a 5-12 mark in conference play.
Last Time Out
Junior guard Cassius Winston (Detroit, Mich./University of Detroit Jesuit) scored 19 of his game-high 27 points in the second half as No. 10 Michigan State beat No. 7 Michigan, 77-70 at the Crisler Center last Sunday ... Redshirt senior Kenny Goins (Troy, Mich./Warren Mott) had a double-double with 16 points and 11 rebounds, while sophomore forward Xavier Tillman (Grand Rapids, Mich./GR Christian) had 14 points and five rebounds and senior guard Matt McQuaid (Duncanville, Texas/Duncanville) finished with 13 points and five rebounds ... Goins scored 13 of his 16 points in the first half, hitting a trio of 3-pointers, while Winston scored 19 of his game-high 27 points in the second half ... Michigan State connected on 50.0 percent of its field goals (24-of-48), including 56.0 percent in the first half (14-of-25), and held Michigan to only 39.7 percent shooting.
About the Spartans
- Through 28 games, Winston leads the team with 19.2 points per game and 7.4 assists per game ... Winston is third in the Big Ten in scoring and is No. 4 in the country in assists per game.
- McQuaid is averaging 9.0 points, 3.1 rebounds and 2.4 assists … He is second in the Big Ten in 3-point field goal percentage, connecting on 44.0 percent of his shots.
- Tillman is scoring 8.9 points per game, is second on the team with 6.9 rebounds and is third in the Big Ten in field goal percentage (62.3 percent).
- Goins is sixth on the team in scoring with 7.5 points and leads the team with 9.1 rebounds per game, which ranks No. 41 nationally.
- Redshirt junior Kyle Ahrens (Versailles, Ohio/Versailles) is averaging 5.4 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 (5.9 ppg, 3.6 rpg in 11 starts).
- MSU ranks among the top-10 in the country in 10 different statistical categories ... The Spartans rank No. 34 in the country in scoring offense (80.1 ppg), No. 18 in field goal percentage (48.6%), No. 46 in scoring defense (65.8 ppg) and No. 3 in field goal percentage defense (37.3%).
- Indiana leads the all-time series with Michigan State, 69-55, and won the first meeting between the teams this season, a 79-75 overtime decision at the Breslin Center on Feb. 2.
- Tom Izzo is 25-15 in his career against Indiana.
- MSU has won 13 of the last 19 games in the series and 15 of the last 23.
- MSU is 15-45 all-time at Assembly Hall, but has won three of the last four meetings.
- Freshman guard Romeo Langford is averaging 17.1 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 14.9 points and leads the team with 8.3 rebounds ... Morgan is tied for 11th in the league in scoring and fifth 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 2.6 assists.
- Indiana ranks eighth in the Big Ten in scoring offense (70.4 ppg) and eighth in scoring defense (67.2 ppg).
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