14th-Ranked Spartans Play at Wisconsin on Saturday Afternoon

East Lansing, Mich. – Michigan State's men's basketball team returns hits the road for the first of five away games in the month of February, visiting Wisconsin on Saturday, Feb. 1 (1 p.m.).

The game will air live on FOX, with Gus Johnson 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 138, XM 195 and Internet 957.

Records
Michigan State, coming off a 79-50 win over Northwestern on Wednesday, enters the game with a 16-5 overall record, including an 8-2 record in Big Ten play. Wisconsin is 12-9 overall and 5-5 in league play.

About the Spartans

The Spartans are 3-2 away from home this year, but over the last two-plus years are 19-7 overall, including 17-6 in Big Ten play.
Michigan State is ranked No. 14 in the Associated Press Top 25, No. 14 in the USA Today Coaches poll and No. 7 per kenpom.com, No. 8 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 (5.9 apg), first in free throw percentage, connecting on 85.7 percent of his shots (72-of-84), 13th in field goal percentage (43.1%) and tied for fifth in 3-point percentage (38.6%).
He is one of 10 Division I players averaging at least 18.0 points, 5.5 assists and 2.0 rebounds per game.
Junior forward Xavier Tillman (Grand Rapids, Mich./GR Christian) is second on the team with 13.8 points per game (T14th in the Big Ten) and tops the team (3rd in the Big Ten) with 9.9 rebounds per game, while adding 3.2 assists (T11th in the Big Ten) per game and 2.1 blocks per game (T4th in the Big Ten).
Tillman is the only Division I player in the country averaging at least 13.0 points, 9.0 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 2.0 blocks per game.
Sophomore forward Aaron Henry (Indianapolis, Ind./Ben Davis) is third on the team with 9.7 points per game, while adding 4.3 rebounds and 2.9 assists (T15th in the Big Ten).
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 8.5 points and 4.3 rebounds.
Freshman guard Rocket Watts (Detroit, Mich./SPIRE Academy [Ohio]) adds 6.8 points, 2.2 rebounds and 1.9 assists.
Freshman forward Malik Hall (Aurora, Ill./Sunrise Christian Academy [Kan.]), who has started the last two games, is averaging 4.8 points and 3.3 rebounds, and sophomore forward Marcus Bingham Jr. (Grand Rapids, Mich./GR Catholic Central), is averaging 4.5 points, 4.6 rebounds and 1.6 blocks.

Last Meeting

Michigan State used a big second half run, four players scored in double figures and Winston became the all-time leader in assists at the school as the Spartans beat Wisconsin, 67-55, at the Breslin Center on Jan. 17.
Tillman scored 15 points, had eight rebounds and four assists to lead the Spartans, while Henry added 13 points, five rebounds and three assists ... Brown had 13 points and four rebounds and Watts added 11 points, three rebounds and three assists.
MSU saw a 19-point lead (39-20) shrink to six points, 39-33, before going on a 25-6 run over a span of 7:03 and taking a 64-39 lead on a dunk from Brown with 7:44 to play

Series History

Saturday's game will be the 148th meeting all-time between Michigan State and Wisconsin ... Michigan State leads the all-time series with Wisconsin, 83-64.
The Badgers have a 46-26 advantage in games played in Madison ... The Spartans are 20-11 in their last 31 games and have won eight-straight over the Badgers.
The home team has won 21 of the last 25 games played on a college campus, with the lone exceptions being MSU's wins in Madison in 2012, 2013, 2018 and 2019.
Tom Izzo is 32-20 in his career against Wisconsin.

About Wisconsin

The Badgers have lost three of their last four games and four of the last seven overall.
Wisconsin is 9-1 at home, including a 3-1 mark in Big Ten games ... The team's lone loss was a 71-70 decision to Illinois on Jan. 8.
Junior forward Nate Reuvers leads the team in scoring with 13.8 points per game.
Redshirt junior guard D'Mitrick Trice is averaging 9.4 points, leads the team with 3.5 assists and leads the team in 3-point field goals, connecting on 34.
Redshirt junior forward Micah Potter is averaging 9.3 points and leads the team with 5.5 rebounds.
Wisconsin is fifth in the Big Ten in 3-point field goals made, connecting on 8.0 per game.
The Badgers also lead the league in free throw percentage (75.6%).
The team is 13th in the league in scoring offense (66.3 ppg) and third in the league in scoring defense (61.4 ppg).

14th-Ranked Spartans Play at Wisconsin on Saturday Afternoon

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Gabe Brown

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Aaron Henry

Xavier Tillman Sr.

Rocket Watts

Cassius Winston

14th-Ranked Spartans Play at Wisconsin on Saturday Afternoon

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