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No. 11 Michigan State Closes Out Weekend on Sunday at Minnesota
1/25/2020 4:13:00 PM | Men's Basketball
East Lansing, Mich. – Michigan State's men's basketball team wraps up a two-game weekend road trip on Sunday, Jan. 26 at Minnesota. Tipoff is slated for 3 p.m.
The game will air live on FOX, with Tim Brando and Jim Jackson calling all of the action. 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 has lost two of its last three games and enters the game with a 14-5 overall record and a 6-2 mark in the Big Ten Conference. Minnesota, winners of three of its last four games, enters with an 11- overall record and a 5-4 mark in league play.
About the Spartans
The game will air live on FOX, with Tim Brando and Jim Jackson calling all of the action. 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 has lost two of its last three games and enters the game with a 14-5 overall record and a 6-2 mark in the Big Ten Conference. Minnesota, winners of three of its last four games, enters with an 11- overall record and a 5-4 mark in league play.
About the Spartans
- The Spartans opened the weekend with a 67-63 loss at Indiana on Thursday night … Sunday's game at Minnesota is the third game in the last four on the road.
- MSU hosts Northwestern on Wednesday at home, but will be on the road for five of eight games in February.
- The Spartans have been strong on the road in the last two-plus years, carrying an overall mark of 19-6, including a 16-6 record in league play.
- Michigan State is ranked No. 11 in the Associated Press Top 25, No. 9 in the USA Today Coaches poll and No. 8 per kenpom.com, No. 9 in the NCAA Net and No. 4 in the ESPN BPI.
- Senior guard Cassius Winston (Detroit, Mich./University of Detroit Jesuit) leads MSU, and ranks third in the Big Ten, in scoring, averaging 18.0 points per game.
- Winston is also fourth in the league in assists, averaging 6.0 per game, second in free throw percentage, connecting on 85.2 percent of his shots (69-of-81), 13th in field goal percentage (42.4%) and sixth in 3-point percentage (36.3%).
- Junior forward Xavier Tillman (Grand Rapids, Mich./GR Christian) is second on the team with 13.7 points per game (13th in the Big Ten), leads the team (third in the Big Ten) with 10.0 rebounds per game, is second on the team with 3.1 assists (T11th in the Big Ten) per game and leads the team with 2.1 blocks per game (sixth in the Big Ten).
- He is the only player in Division I averaging at least 13.0 points, 10 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 2.0 blocks per game and is the only player in the Big Ten Conference in the top-15 in scoring, rebounding, assists and blocks.
- Sophomore forward Aaron Henry (Indianapolis, Ind./Ben Davis) is third on the team with 9.9 points per game, while adding 4.3 rebounds and 2.9 assists.
- MSU has four other players averaging at least 4.0 points per game, led by sophomore forward Gabe Brown (Ypsilanti, Mich./Belleville), who is averaging 8.7 points and 4.3 rebounds.
- Freshman guard Rocket Watts (Detroit, Mich./SPIRE Academy [Ohio]) adds 6.9 points, 2.3 rebounds and 2.1 assists.
- Sophomore forward Marcus Bingham Jr. (Grand Rapids, Mich./GR Catholic Central) who has started the last 14 games and collected career high's in rebounds (12) and blocks (5) against Illinois on Jan. 2, is averaging 4.6 points, 4.7 rebounds and 1.5 blocks ... Freshman forward Malik Hall (Aurora, Ill./Sunrise Christian Academy {Kan.]) is averaging 4.6 points and 3.3 rebounds
- Sunday's game will be the 133rd meeting all-time between Michigan State and Minnesota.
- Michigan State leads the all-time series with Minnesota, 72-60 ... The Spartans won the first meeting this season between the teams, 74-58, at the Breslin Center on Jan. 9.
- MSU is 26-36 all-time in Minneapolis, has won the last four games between the teams and seven of the last eight overall and the last three games played at Minnesota.
- Minnesota's last win at home was a 76-63 decision on Dec. 31, 2012.
- Minnesota enters Sunday's game with an 11-8 overall record and a 5-4 mark in the Big Ten Conference following a 62-59 win at Ohio State Thursday night.
- The Golden Gophers have won three of their last four games.
- Sophomore center Daniel Oturu leads the team, and is second in the Big Ten, in scoring with 19.7 points and leads the league with 11.6 rebounds per game.
- He is one of three players scoring in double figures for Minnesota, along with redshirt sophomore guard Marcus Carr, a Pittsburgh transfer, who is scoring 16.3 points per game and is second in the Big Ten with 6.9 assists per game … Carr leads the Big Ten and ranks 15th in the country in minutes played per game (36.7).
- Sophomore guard Gabe Kalscheur is third on the team with 11.8 points per game and leads the team in 3-pointers with 46 ... His 2.4 3-pointers made per game leads the Big Ten.
- Redshirt junior guard Payton Willis, a Vanderbilt transfer, is fourth on the team with 9.4 points per game.
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