Michigan State Plays at Purdue Tuesday Night

East Lansing, Mich. – The Michigan State men's basketball team plays the first of two road games this week at Purdue on Tuesday, Feb. 16 (ESPN, 7 p.m.).

The Spartans will play at Indiana on Saturday, Feb. 20. MSU is on the road for three of its final scheduled six regular season games, including a visit to Maryland. The Spartans have home dates against Illinois (Feb. 23), Ohio State (Feb. 25). MSU still has games at home against Indiana and on the road against Michigan to be rescheduled following postponements.

The game will air live on ESPN, with Dave Flemming and Dan Dakich 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 XM 383 and Internet 973.

Records
Michigan State enters the game with a 10-8 overall record and a 4-8 mark in the Big Ten, while Purdue is 13-8 overall and 8-6 in league play.

About the Spartans

MSU has two players scoring in double figures, four players scoring at least 8.0 points, nine with at least 4.0 points and 10 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 14.3 points, 5.6 rebounds, 3.5 assists, 1.3 blocks and 1.3 steals per game ... He is the only players in Division I averaging at least 14.0 points, 5.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.3 blocks per game.
Redshirt junior forward Joey Hauser is second on the team with 10.4 points and leads the team with 6.8 rebounds ... Hauser scored a career-high 27 points against Wisconsin on Dec. 25, has four double-doubles this year, 10 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.
Graduate guard Joshua Langford, who has scored in double figures in seven of the last nine games and reached the 1,000-point mark for his career on Tuesday, adds 9.6 points, 2.4 rebounds and 1.6 assists.
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 8.1 points per game and is second on the team with 2.9 assists.
Junior forward Gabe Brown, who missed three games after testing positive for COVID-19, is averaging 7.4 points and 2.0 rebounds.
Sophomore forward Malik Hall, who made his first start of the season on Tuesday against Penn State, is averaging 5.0 points, 4.9 rebounds and 1.6 assists.
Junior guard Foster Loyer is averaging 4.4 points and 2.4 assists and sophomore forward Julius Marble is averaging 3.9 points and 2.3 rebounds in 8.4 minutes.

Series History

When Michigan State and Purdue play on Tuesday, Feb. 16, it will be the 127th meeting in program history.
Purdue leads the all-time series with Michigan State, 71-55, including a 55-54 win in East Lansing last month.
The Spartans are 18-44 all-time at Purdue.
The Boilermakers have won six of the last nine meetings, including the last four at Mackey Arena.
Tom Izzo is 26-19 in his career against Purdue.

About Purdue

The Boilermakers have lost three of their last five games, including a 71-68 decision at Minnesota on Feb. 11.
Purdue came back to beat MSU, 55-54, on Jan. 8 and won its next three games.
The Boilermakers have lost three of their last five games.
Junior forward Trevion Williams leads the team in scoring and rebounding, averaging 15.8 points and 9.6 rebounds per game.
Purdue is 12th in the league in scoring offense (70.4 ppg) and fourth in the league in scoring defense (66.7 ppg).

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Malik Hall

Joey Hauser

Aaron Henry

Joshua Langford

Foster Loyer

Rocket Watts

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