Saturday, February 20
Bloomington, Ind.
noon
Michigan State University
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Indiana
Michigan State Travels to Play at Indiana for Saturday Matinee
2/19/2021 11:57:00 AM | Men's Basketball
East Lansing, Mich. – Michigan State's men's basketball team hits the road for the second-straight game, playing at Indiana on Saturday, Feb. 20 (noon, ESPN).
Saturday's game is the first of four in an eight-day span for the Spartans. MSU will make up its previously scheduled game against No. 5 Illinois on Tuesday, Feb. 23 at home, and then hosts No. 4 Ohio State on Thursday, Feb. 25 before traveling to play at Maryland on Sunday, Feb. 28. Of MSU's seven remaining scheduled regular season games, four will be against teams ranked among the top-five in the country (No. 3 Michigan twice, Illinois and Ohio State).
The game will air live on ESPN, with Jason Benetti 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 387 and Internet 977.
Records
Michigan State enters the game with a 10-9 overall record and a 4-9 mark in the Big Ten, while Indiana is 12-9 overall and 7-7 in league play.
About the Spartans
Saturday's game is the first of four in an eight-day span for the Spartans. MSU will make up its previously scheduled game against No. 5 Illinois on Tuesday, Feb. 23 at home, and then hosts No. 4 Ohio State on Thursday, Feb. 25 before traveling to play at Maryland on Sunday, Feb. 28. Of MSU's seven remaining scheduled regular season games, four will be against teams ranked among the top-five in the country (No. 3 Michigan twice, Illinois and Ohio State).
The game will air live on ESPN, with Jason Benetti 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 387 and Internet 977.
Records
Michigan State enters the game with a 10-9 overall record and a 4-9 mark in the Big Ten, while Indiana is 12-9 overall and 7-7 in league play.
About the Spartans
- MSU has two players scoring in double figures, three players scoring at least 9.0 points, eight 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, 5.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists, 1.3 blocks and 1.3 steals per game ... He is the only player 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 10.3 points and leads the team with 6.5 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 10 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 7.7 points per game and is second on the team with 3.0 assists.
- Junior forward Gabe Brown, who missed three games after testing positive for COVID-19, is averaging 7.3 points and 2.1 rebounds.
- Sophomore forward Malik Hall, who made his first start of the season on Tuesday against Penn State, is averaging 4.9 points, 4.9 rebounds and 1.5 assists.
- Junior guard Foster Loyer, who will miss the next week with a left shoulder injury, is averaging 4.2 points and 2.3 assists.
- Sophomore forward Julius Marble is averaging 4.3 points and 2.3 rebounds in 8.9 minutes and freshman guard A.J. Hoggard adds 2.8 points and 1.9 assists.
- Indiana leads the all-time series with Michigan State, 71-55.
- Indiana won the only meeting last year and has won five of the last five games.
- MSU has won seven of the last 11 overall.
- The last four games in the series have been decided by an average of 3.0 points.
- Tom Izzo is 25-17 in his career against Indiana.
- MSU is 15-47 all-time at Assembly Hall.
- MSU's last win at Indiana was a 63-60 decision on Feb. 3, 2018.
- The Hoosiers have won three of their last four games.
- Indiana is 4-4 at home in Big Ten Conference play.
- Sophomore forward Trayce Jackson-Davis is third in the conference in scoring (19.6 ppg) and second in rebounding (9.6 rpg).
- The Hoosiers are seventh in the league in scoring offense (72.6 ppg) and eighth in scoring defense (69.3 ppg).
- IU averages 24.0 free throws per game.
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