Michigan State Back in Action on Sunday at Ohio State

East Lansing, Mich. – Michigan State's men's basketball team plays the second of three-straight Big Ten Conference road games on Sunday, Jan. 31 at Ohio State (1 p.m.).

The game will air live on CBS, with Spero Dedes and Bill Raftery 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 Kevin Pauga serving as the color analyst. The game can also be heard on XM and Internet 372.

Records
Michigan State enters the game with an 8-5 overall record and a 2-5 mark in the Big Ten, while Ohio State, ranked No. 13 in the Associated Press poll, is 13-4 overall and 7-4 in league play.

About the Spartans

MSU has 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 13.4 points, 5.4 rebounds, 3.5 assists, 1.5 blocks and 1.5 steals per game.
Redshirt junior forward Joey Hauser is second on the team with 11.3 points and leads the team with 7.5 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 9.2 points per game and is second on the team with 3.3 assists.
Junior forward Gabe Brown is averaging 7.5 points and 1.7 rebounds.
Graduate guard Joshua Langford, who has scored in double figures in three of the last four games and needs 52 points to reach the 1,000-point mark for his career, adds 8.4 points, 2.3 rebounds and 1.9 assists.
Sophomore forward Malik Hall, who had his first career double-double (10 points, 10 rebounds) at Duke, is averaging 5.6 points, 5.1 rebounds and 1.9 assists, junior guard Foster Loyer is averaging 5.0 points and 2.2 assists and sophomore forward Julius Marble is averaging 4.0 points and 1.6 rebounds in 7.1 minutes.

Series History

Michigan State and Ohio State will meet for the 137th time on Sunday, Jan. 31.
MSU leads the head-to-head series, 77-59, and has won the last four meetings with the Buckeyes.
Michigan State is 25-39 on the road against Ohio State.
The Spartans won the only meeting between the teams last year, posting an 80-69 win on March 8 to clinch a share of the Big Ten Regular Season title.
Tom Izzo is 32-16 in his career against Ohio State.

About Ohio State

The Buckeyes are coming off an 83-79 win over Penn State and have won five of their last six games.
Ohio State is 8-1 at home and 4-1 in conference play.
The Buckeyes have three players scoring in double figures, seven players averaging at least six points and nine seeing at least 10 minutes per game.
Sophomore forward E.J. Lidell is tied for 11th in the Big Ten in scoring (11.0 ppg) and is 14th in the league in rebounding and 12th in blocked shots.
Ohio State is fourth in the league in scoring offense (76.9 ppg) and fifth in scoring defense (68.0 ppg).

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Players Mentioned

Gabe Brown

Malik Hall

Joey Hauser

Aaron Henry

Joshua Langford

Foster Loyer

Rocket Watts