Michigan State Travels to Play at No. 5 Iowa on Thursday Night

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Michigan State Travels to Play at No. 5 Iowa on Thursday Night

1/13/2021 3:17:00 PM | Men's Basketball

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East Lansing, Mich. – Michigan State's men's basketball team travels to play at No. 5/8 Iowa on Thursday, Jan. 14 (9 p.m. [ET], FS1). This is the lone road game sandwiched around a pair of home games for the Spartans, who opened Big Ten play with three of their first four games on the road.

The game will air live on FS1, with Adam Amin and Nick Bahe calling all of the action. The TCF Bank Spartan Media Network radio call can be heard on one of 38 affiliates and on the web at MSUSpartans.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 enters the game with an 8-4 overall record and a 2-4 mark in the Big Ten Conference, while Iowa is 11-2 overall and 5-1 in league play.

About the Spartans

The Spartans have featured a balanced attack, with two players scoring in double figures, five players scoring at least 7.5 points, seven with at least 5.0 points and nine players averaging at least 10 minutes per game.
Junior forward Aaron Henry, who scored a career-high 27 points in the win at Nebraska, is averaging 13.9 points, 5.6 rebounds, 3.7 assists, 1.6 blocks and 1.6 steals per game ... He is one of only two players in Division I averaging at least 13.5 points, 5.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.5 blocks per game.
Redshirt junior forward Joey Hauser is second on the team with 11.9 points and leads the team with 8.1 rebounds ... Hauser scored a career-high 27 points against Wisconsin on Dec. 25, has four double-doubles this year, seven games in double figure scoring, two games with at least 20 points, and five games with at least 10 boards, including a career-high 16 against Notre Dame.
Sophomore guard Rocket Watts has scored in double figures five times this season, including back-to-back games with 20+ points against Duke and Detroit Mercy ... He is third on the team with 9.7 points per game and is second on the team with 3.4 assists.
Junior forward Gabe Brown is averaging 7.5 points and 1.7 rebounds.
Graduate guard Joshua Langford, who has scored in double figures the last three games and needs 55 points to reach the 1,000-point mark for his career, adds 8.9 points, 2.4 rebounds and 2.1 assists.
Sophomore forward Malik Hall, who had his first career double-double (10 points, 10 rebounds) at Duke, is averaging 5.9 points, 5.3 rebounds and 1.9 assists.
Junior guard Foster Loyer is averaging 5.2 points and 2.5 assists and sophomore forward Julius Marble is averaging 4.1 points and 1.6 rebounds in 6.9 minutes.

Series History

Michigan State and Iowa meet for the first time this season and for the 132nd time in program history.
MSU leads the all-time series with Iowa, 76-55.
MSU has won 14 of the last 16 games, and 19 of the last 22 overall, including a 76-70 win last season, the only one of the year between the teams.
Tom Izzo is 34-11 in his career against Iowa.

About Iowa

Iowa is led by senior center Luka Garza, who leads the team in scoring and rebounding, with 27.6 points and 8.6 rebounds ... He leads the Big Ten in scoring.
Redshirt senior guard Jordan Bohannon is third on the team with 10.5 points per game and ranks fourth in the Big Ten, connecting on 38.6 percent of his 3-point attempts.
Iowa is averaging 91.9 points per game and ranks No. 4 in the country in scoring offense.
The Hawkeyes also lead the Big Ten and rank No. 14 nationally with 10.5 three-pointers per game.