Friday, March 15
Chicago, Ill. / United Center
12:30 PM ET/ 11:30 AM CT
Michigan State University
vs
Ohio State
Photo by: Matthew Mitchell Photography
Michigan State Faces Ohio State in B1G Quarterfinal on Friday
3/14/2019 11:08:00 AM | Men's Basketball
East Lansing, Mich. – Michigan State's men's basketball team will begin play in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals against Ohio State at the United Center in Chicago on Friday, March 15, tipping off at 12:30 p.m. (ET).
The Spartans earned the No. 1 seed after last week's 75-63 win over Michigan in the regular season finale to clinch a share of the Big Ten Regular Season title.
Records
Michigan State has won seven of its last eight games and enters the Big Ten Tournament with a 25-6 overall record. The Spartans are ranked No. 6 in the Associated Press poll and No. 7 in the USA Today Coaches poll. Ohio State snapped a three-game losing skid on Thursday with a 79-75 win over Indiana in the Big Ten Tournament second round, improving to 19-13 overall. The Buckeyes finished the regular season with an 8-12 record in conference play.
Last Time Out
Junior guard Cassius Winston (Detroit, Mich./University of Detroit Jesuit) scored 16 of his 23 points in the second half and handed out seven assists as Michigan State used a big second half run to pull away from Michigan for a 75-63 win at the Breslin Center Saturday night … The win clinched a share of the Big Ten Regular Season Championship for Michigan State, the program's second-straight regular season title, the ninth under Head Coach Tom Izzo and MSU's 15th regular season championship … Sophomore forward Xavier Tillman (Grand Rapids, Mich./GR Christian) added 17 points, six rebounds and five blocked shots, while redshirt senior Kenny Goins (Troy, Mich./Warren Mott) added nine points and 16 rebounds.
The Big Ten's Best
The Opponent
The Spartans earned the No. 1 seed after last week's 75-63 win over Michigan in the regular season finale to clinch a share of the Big Ten Regular Season title.
Records
Michigan State has won seven of its last eight games and enters the Big Ten Tournament with a 25-6 overall record. The Spartans are ranked No. 6 in the Associated Press poll and No. 7 in the USA Today Coaches poll. Ohio State snapped a three-game losing skid on Thursday with a 79-75 win over Indiana in the Big Ten Tournament second round, improving to 19-13 overall. The Buckeyes finished the regular season with an 8-12 record in conference play.
Last Time Out
Junior guard Cassius Winston (Detroit, Mich./University of Detroit Jesuit) scored 16 of his 23 points in the second half and handed out seven assists as Michigan State used a big second half run to pull away from Michigan for a 75-63 win at the Breslin Center Saturday night … The win clinched a share of the Big Ten Regular Season Championship for Michigan State, the program's second-straight regular season title, the ninth under Head Coach Tom Izzo and MSU's 15th regular season championship … Sophomore forward Xavier Tillman (Grand Rapids, Mich./GR Christian) added 17 points, six rebounds and five blocked shots, while redshirt senior Kenny Goins (Troy, Mich./Warren Mott) added nine points and 16 rebounds.
The Big Ten's Best
- Winston was named the Big Ten Player of the Year by the conference's media and coaches, the Big Ten office announced on Monday, March 11 ... Winston was also one of two unanimous selections to the All-Big Ten First Team ... Winston, who was named a First Team All-American by the Sporting News on Monday morning, is averaging 19.0 points, 7.6 assists and 3.1 rebounds, while shooting 47.1 percent from the floor and 41.3 percent from 3-point land ... Winston is the ninth player from Michigan State to be named Player of the Year and the first since Denzel Valentine in 2016.
- Through 31 games, Winston leads the team with 19.0 points per game and 7.6 assists per game ... Winston is third in the Big Ten in scoring and is No. 3 in the country in assists per game ... In Big Ten games, Winston averaged 19.6 points and 7.9 assists.
- Senior guard Matt McQuaid (Duncanville, Texas/Duncanville) is averaging 9.3 points, 3.3 rebounds and 2.3 assists.
- Tillman is scoring 9.3 points per game, is second on the team with 7.0 rebounds and is third in the Big Ten in field goal percentage (61.1 percent) ... In five starts since the loss of junior forward Nick Ward (Gahanna, Ohio/Lincoln), Tillman is averaging 14.4 points and 7.8 rebounds.
- Goins is sixth on the team in scoring with 8.3 points and leads the team with 9.1 rebounds per game, which ranks No. 37 nationally.
- Redshirt junior Kyle Ahrens (Versailles, Ohio/Versailles) is averaging 5.1 points and 2.7 rebounds (7.5 ppg, 3.6 rpg in eight starts) and freshman Aaron Henry (Indianapolis, Ind./Ben Davis) is averaging 5.3 points and 3.4 rebounds (6.9 ppg, 4.2 rpg in 14 starts).
- MSU ranks among the top-10 in the country in 10 different statistical categories ... The Spartans rank No. 37 in the country in scoring offense (79.7 ppg), No. 14 in field goal percentage (48.9%), No. 45 in scoring defense (65.9 ppg) and No. 4 in field goal percentage defense (37.6%).
The Opponent
- Michigan State swept the season series with Ohio State and lost a pair of games to Indiana.
- The Spartans are 4-3 all-time against Ohio State in the Big Ten Tournament ... They last met in 2016 when Michigan State posted an 81-54 win in the quarterfinals … MSU has won three of the last four Big Ten Tournament games against the Buckeyes.
- Michigan State and Indiana have met only once in the Big Ten Tournament, a 67-56 Hoosier win in the 2002 quarterfinals.
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