Saturday, February 15
East Lansing, Mich.
6 p.m.
Michigan State University
vs
Maryland
Photo by: Matthew Mitchell Photography
Michigan State Returns Home to Host Maryland Saturday Night
2/14/2020 10:46:00 AM | Men's Basketball
East Lansing, Mich. – Michigan State men's basketball returns to the Breslin Center, hosting No. 9 Maryland on Saturday night. Tipoff is slated for 6 p.m. ET.
The game will air live on ESPN, with Dan Shulman, Jay Bilas and Holly Rowe 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, coming off a 70-69 win at No. 22 Illinois on Tuesday, Feb. 11 that snapped a three-game losing skid, enters the game with a 17-8 overall record, including a 9-5 mark in Big Ten action. Maryland enters Saturday's game 20-4 overall and leads the Big Ten with a 10-3 record.
About the Spartans
Last Meeting with Maryland
About Maryland
The game will air live on ESPN, with Dan Shulman, Jay Bilas and Holly Rowe 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, coming off a 70-69 win at No. 22 Illinois on Tuesday, Feb. 11 that snapped a three-game losing skid, enters the game with a 17-8 overall record, including a 9-5 mark in Big Ten action. Maryland enters Saturday's game 20-4 overall and leads the Big Ten with a 10-3 record.
About the Spartans
- Senior guard Cassius Winston (Detroit, Mich./University of Detroit Jesuit) leads MSU, and ranks third in the Big Ten, in scoring, averaging 18.3 points per game … Winston is also fourth in the league in assists (5.7 apg), first in free throw percentage, connecting on 86.0 percent of his shots (92-of-107), 10th in field goal percentage (42.4%) and fourth in 3-point percentage (38.6%).
- Junior forward Xavier Tillman (Grand Rapids, Mich./GR Christian) is second on the team with 13.6 points per game (T14th in the Big Ten) and tops the team (T2nd in the Big Ten) with 10.2 rebounds per game, while adding 3.1 assists (T12th in the Big Ten) per game and 2.1 blocks per game (T4th in the Big Ten).
- Tillman is the only Division I player averaging at least 13.0 points, 10.0 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 2.0 blocks per game.
- Sophomore forward Aaron Henry (Indianapolis, Ind./Ben Davis) is third on the team with 9.5 points per game, while adding 4.3 rebounds and 2.7 assists.
- MSU has four other players averaging at least 4.0 points per game, led by freshman guard Rocket Watts (Detroit, Mich./SPIRE Academy [Ohio], who scored a career-high 21 points at Illinois, with 7.9 points, 2.0 rebounds and 1.6 assists.
- Sophomore forward Gabe Brown (Ypsilanti, Mich./Belleville) adds 7.5 points and 3.9 rebounds.
- Freshman forward Malik Hall (Aurora, Ill./Sunrise Christian Academy [Kan.]), who has started five of the last six games, is averaging 4.6 points and 3.6 rebounds, and sophomore forward Marcus Bingham Jr. (Grand Rapids, Mich./GR Catholic Central) is averaging 4.0 points, 4.2 rebounds and 1.5 blocks.
- Michigan State and Maryland will meet for the 15th time on Saturday, Feb. 15.
- MSU leads the head-to-head series, 9-5, and has won three-straight and six of the last seven over the Terrapins.
- Michigan State is 3-1 at home against Maryland.
- The team's last win at home was a 69-55 decision on Jan. 21, 2019.
- Tom Izzo is 8-5 in his career against the Terrapins
Last Meeting with Maryland
- Winston scored 14 points and handed out seven assists, leading five players in double figures as then-No. 6 Michigan State pulled away for a 69-55 win over then-No. 13 Maryland at the Breslin Center on Jan. 21, 2019.
- Redshirt senior Kenny Goins finished with a double-double with 14 points and 12 rebounds, Henry scored a career-high 12 points, senior guard Matt McQuaid added 10 points, three rebounds and three assists and Tillman tallied 10 points, three rebounds and five blocked shots.
About Maryland
- The Terrapins have won seven in a row, including four road wins over Wisconsin, Northwestern, Indiana and Illinois.
- Senior guard Anthony Cowan Jr., a two-time All-Big Ten Selection, leads Maryland with 16.3 points per game and averages a team-best 4.6 assists per game.
- Sophomore Jalen Smith is second on the team with 15.1 points (9th in the Big Ten) and averages 10.2 rebounds per game (T2nd in the Big Ten).
- Smith, who joins Tillman on the Karl Malone Award Watch List, ranks fifth nationally (1st in the Big Ten) in double doubles with 15 and is third in the conference in blocked shots, averaging 2.3 per game.
- Sophomore guard Aaron Wiggins adds 10.4 points and 5.3 rebounds and sophomore guard Darryl Morsell averages 8.6 points and 4.8 rebounds for the Terrapins.
- Maryland is seventh in the Big Ten in scoring offense (71.7 ppg) and fifth in the league in scoring defense (62.3 ppg).
- The Terrapins rank No. 4 in the Big Ten in scoring margin (9.5) and third in the league in field goal percentage (38.4 percent).
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