No. 24 Michigan State Hosts No. 18 Iowa on Tuesday Night

East Lansing, Mich. – Michigan State's men's basketball team returns to the Breslin Center for its penultimate home game of the regular season, hosting Iowa on Tuesday, Feb. 25. Tipoff is slated for 7 p.m.

The game will air live on ESPN2, with Dave Flemming, Dan Dakich and Molly McGrath 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 XM 206 and Internet 372.

Records
Michigan State, ranked No. 24 in the Associated Press and USA Today Coaches poll, enters Tuesday's game with a 18-9 overall record and a 10-6 mark in the Big Ten Conference. Iowa is 18-9 overall and 10-6 in league play.

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 87.0 percent of his shots (100-of-115), 10th in field goal percentage (42.9%), second in 3-point percentage (39.6%) and tied for second in steals (1.3 spg).
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 (3rd in the Big Ten) with 10.3 rebounds per game, while adding 3.0 assists (T14th in the Big Ten) per game and 2.1 blocks per game (4th in the Big Ten).
Tillman is the only player in the league in the top-15 in scoring, rebounding, assists and blocks.
Sophomore forward Aaron Henry (Indianapolis, Ind./Ben Davis) is third on the team with 9.6 points per game, while adding 4.5 rebounds and 2.8 assists.
MSU has three other players averaging at least 4.0 points per game, led by sophomore forward Gabe Brown (Ypsilanti, Mich./Belleville), who is averaging 7.6 points and 3.8 rebounds and scored a career-high 17 points at Nebraska.
Freshman guard Rocket Watts (Detroit, Mich./SPIRE Academy [Ohio]), who scored a career-high 21 points at Illinois, is averaging 7.5 points per game (8.0 in Big Ten games).
Freshman forward Malik Hall (Aurora, Ill./Sunrise Christian Academy [Ohio]), who has started the last seven games, is averaging 4.3 points and 3.5 rebounds.

About Iowa

The Hawkeyes have won their last two games and four of the last seven overall, with losses at Maryland (82-72), Purdue (104-68) and Indiana (89-77).
Iowa is 2-5 in Big Ten road games, its lone wins coming at Northwestern and Minnesota.
Senior center Luka Garza leads the Big Ten in scoring with 23.7 points per game and is fourth in the league with 9.6 rebounds per game ... He is averaging 26.6 points in league games.
Sophomore guard Joe Wieskamp is second on the team with 14.9 points and 6.1 rebounds and leads the team with 50 3-pointers.
Redshirt freshman guard CJ Fredrick is averaging 10.7 points and has hit 42 3-pointers.
Redshirt sophomore guard Connor McCaffery is averaging 5.9 points, 4.1 rebounds and leads the team with 3.7 assists.
The Hawkeyes leads the Big Ten in scoring offense (78.5 ppg), are 13th in scoring defense (71.9 ppg) and are sixth in 3-pointers made per game (7.9).

Series History

Michigan State and Iowa meet for the first time this season and for the 131st time in program history.
MSU leads the all-time series with Iowa, 75-55.
MSU has won 13 of the last 15 games, and 18 of the last 21 overall, including a pair of games last year.
Tom Izzo is 33-11 in his career against Iowa.

Last Year with Iowa

The Spartans swept a pair of games last year, beating Iowa on Dec. 3, 90-68, at the Breslin Center, and then posting an 82-67 win in Iowa City on Jan. 27.
In the first game, Kenny Goins scored a career-high 19 points, grabbed 14 rebounds and handed out seven assists and Nick Ward had a career-high 26 points as MSU had four players in double figure scoring.
Xavier Tillman finished with a then career-high 14 points, eight rebounds and four blocks, while Joshua Langford added 14 points and five assists ... Cassius Winston finished with eight points and 12 assists.
In the second meeting, Winston scored 23 points and had seven assists and Ward finished with 21 points and 10 rebounds
Matt McQuaid hit a trio of 3-pointers in the second half and had nine points, while Goins added seven points, eight rebounds and two assists.

Players Mentioned

Gabe Brown

Kenny Goins

Malik Hall

Aaron Henry

Joshua Langford

Matt McQuaid

Xavier Tillman Sr.

Nick Ward

Rocket Watts

Cassius Winston

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