Michigan State Closes Out Three-Game Road Trip on Tuesday at Iowa

East Lansing, Mich. – The Michigan State men's basketball team closes out a three-game road trip on Tuesday, Feb. 2, visiting No. 8 Iowa at Carver-Hawkeye Arena (7 p.m.).

The Spartans are coming off a 79-62 loss at No. 13 Ohio State on Sunday and have lost their last three games, including a pair of contests following a 20-day stoppage due to COVID-19 issues on the team. Following Tuesday's game, MSU returns home for three-straight games, starting Feb. 6 against Nebraska. Including makeup games, MSU will play seven of its final 11 at home.

The game will air live on FS1, with Kevin Kugler 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 Kevin Pauga serving as the color analyst.

Records
Michigan State enters the game with an 8-6 overall record and a 2-6 mark in the Big Ten, while Iowa, ranked No. 8 in the Associated Press and USA Today Coaches polls, enters the game at 12-4 overall and 6-3 in the league.

About the Spartans

MSU has two players scoring in double figures, five players scoring at least 7.5 points, eight with at least 4.0 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 13.1 points, 5.5 rebounds, 3.4 assists, 1.4 blocks and 1.5 steals per game ... He is one of only three players in Division I averaging at least 13.0 points, 5.0 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 1.4 blocks per game.
Redshirt junior forward Joey Hauser is second on the team with 11.3 points and leads the team with 7.4 rebounds ... Hauser scored a career-high 27 points against Wisconsin on Dec. 25, has four double-doubles this year, eight 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 9.0 points per game and is second on the team with 3.2 assists.
Junior forward Gabe Brown, who has missed the last two games after testing positive for COVID-19, is averaging 7.5 points and 1.7 rebounds.
Graduate guard Joshua Langford, who has scored in double figures in four of the last five games and needs 38 points to reach the 1,000-point mark for his career, adds 8.8 points, 2.1 rebounds and 1.9 assists.
Sophomore forward Malik Hall, who had his first career double-double (10 points, 10 rebounds) at Duke, is averaging 5.5 points, 5.1 rebounds and 1.9 assists, junior guard Foster Loyer is averaging 4.9 points and 2.1 assists and sophomore forward Julius Marble is averaging 4.2 points and 1.8 rebounds in 7.8 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 enters the game on Tuesday night with a 12-4 overall record and a 6-3 mark in Big Ten play.
The Hawkeyes are ranked No. 7 in the Associated Press poll and No. 7 in the USA Today Coaches poll.
Iowa won five-straight conference games before losing its last two games, at home to Indiana on Jan. 21 (81-69) and at Illinois on Friday night (80-75).
Senior center Luka Garza leads the Big Ten in scoring (26.4 ppg) and is fifth in rebounding (8.6 rpg).
Iowa leads the Big Ten in scoring offense (89.7 ppg) and is 12th in scoring defense (74.1 ppg).
The Hawkeyes also lead the Big Ten in 3-pointers made per game, averaging 10.1 triples.

Michigan State Closes Out Three-Game Road Trip on Tuesday at Iowa

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