Michigan State Plays at Maryland on Sunday Afternoon

East Lansing, Mich. – Michigan State's men's basketball team hits the road for its penultimate road game of the regular season, traveling to play at Maryland on Sunday, Feb. 28.

The game will be the third of six games in a span of 13 days for the Spartans, who are making up a pair of games in the final two weeks after a COVID shutdown of 20 days. MSU is coming off a 71-67 win over No. 4 Ohio State on Thursday. The win gave MSU two wins over B1G teams ranked among the Top 5 in the Associated Press poll (81-72 vs. No. 5 Illinois) in the same week for the first time. The Spartans are one of 15 teams with five Quadrant 1 wins.

The game will air live on CBS, with Kevin Harlan and Dan Bonner 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 384 and Internet 974.

Records
Michigan State, winners of three-straight games, is 13-9 overall and 7-9 in the Big Ten Conference, while Maryland enters the game with a 14-10 overall record and an 8-9 mark in league play

About the Spartans

The Spartans feature a balanced attack, with three players scoring in double figures, five players averaging at least 7.0 points and nine players averaging at least 10 minutes per game.
Junior forward Aaron Henry leads the team in scoring (15.3 ppg) and assists (3.5 apg) and is second on the team with 5.5 rebounds while adding 1.4 blocks and 1.3 steals per game.
He is the only Division I player averaging at least 15.0 points, 5.0 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.4 blocks per game.
Redshirt junior forward Joey Hauser is second on the team in scoring with 10.2 points and leads the team with 6.0 rebounds per game.
Graduate guard Joshua Langford, who has scored in double figures in nine of the last 13 games, is third on the team with 10.0 points, while adding 3.3 rebounds and 1.9 assists.
Langford had his second career double-double with 15 points and a career-high 16 rebounds in the win over Illinois on Feb. 23.
Junior forward Gabe Brown, who scored 14 points in the win at Indiana, is fourth on the team with 7.7 points and has connected on 46.0 percent of his 3-point field goals (29-of-63.
Sophomore guard Rocket Watts, who had six points and two assists in a season-high 32 minutes at Indiana on Saturday, is fifth on the team with 7.7 points and second with 3.0 assists.
Sophomore forward Malik Hall is averaging 4.4 points, 4.3 rebounds and 1.4 assists, sophomore forward Julius Marble adds 4.3 points and 2.1 rebounds and junior guard Foster Loyer, who is out with a left shoulder injury, is averaging 4.2 points and 2.3 assists.
Junior forward Marcus Bingham Jr. is averaging 3.4 points, 2.9 rebounds and 1.4 blocks and forward Thomas Kithier chips in 2.7 points and 2.6 rebounds.

About Maryland

The Terrapins have won four of their last five games, including a 68-59 win at Rutgers on Feb. 21.
Maryland is 4-5 in Big Ten games at home, but has won their last three, including a 72-59 win over Minnesota on Feb. 14.
Senior guard Eric Ayala is one of three players scoring in double figures, leading the team with 14.6 points per game.
Maryland is 13th in the Big Ten in scoring offense (69.6 ppg), but is second in the league in scoring defense, allowing just 65.3 points per game.

Series History

Michigan State leads the all-time series with Maryland, 10-6.
The Spartans have won seven of the last nine games against the Terrapins.
Tom Izzo is 9-6 in his career against Maryland.
The teams split a pair of games last year, with Maryland winning at the Breslin Center, 67-60, and the Spartans posting a 78-66 win in College Park.
MSU has won the last two games played in Maryland.

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Players Mentioned

Marcus Bingham Jr.

Gabe Brown

Malik Hall

Joey Hauser

Aaron Henry

Thomas Kithier

Joshua Langford

Foster Loyer

Rocket Watts