Spartans Host Indiana on Tuesday Night

East Lansing, Mich. – Michigan State's men's basketball team returns home for the first of three games in the next six days, hosting Indiana on Tuesday, March 2 (8 p.m.).

The game will be the fourth of six games in a span of 13 days for the Spartans. MSU, coming off a 73-55 loss at Maryland, has won three of its last four games. The Spartans won back-to-back games against AP Top 5 teams last week, beating Illinois and Ohio State. Including games against Michigan later this week, since Jan. 31, the Spartans will have played more games vs. Top 8 NET teams (7 games) than not (6 games).

The game will air live on BTN, with Brandon Gaudin and Robbie Hummel 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, winners of three of its last four games, is 13-10 overall and 7-10 in the Big Ten Conference, while Indiana, which has lost its last three games, is 12-12 overall and 7-10 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 (15.1 ppg) and assists (3.6 apg) and is second on the team with 5.5 rebounds while adding 1.3 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 1.3 blocks per game.
Redshirt junior forward Joey Hauser is second on the team in scoring with 10.2 points and leads the team with 6.1 rebounds per game.
Graduate guard Joshua Langford, who has scored in double figures in 10 of the last 14 games, is third on the team with 10.1 points, while adding 3.4 rebounds and 2.0 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 45.6 percent of his 3-point field goals (31-of-68).
Sophomore guard Rocket Watts, who had six points and two assists in a season-high 32 minutes at Indiana, is fifth on the team with 7.6 points and second with 2.9 assists.
Sophomore forward Malik Hall is averaging 4.5 points, 4.3 rebounds and 1.4 assists, sophomore forward Julius Marble adds 4.1 points and 2.0 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 3.3 points, 2.8 rebounds and 1.3 blocks and forward Thomas Kithier chips in 2.6 points and 2.6 rebounds.

About Indiana

Hoosiers have lost three-straight games, four of the last five and six of the last nine overall.
Indiana is 4-6 on the road in Big Ten Conference play.
Sophomore forward Trayce Jackson-Davis is third in the conference in scoring (19.8 ppg) and second in rebounding (9.3 rpg).
The Hoosiers are seventh in the league in scoring offense (71.56 ppg) and eighth in scoring defense (70.0 ppg).
IU averages 23.5 free throws per game, but is 12th in the league in free throw percentage (66.8%).

Series History

Indiana leads the all-time series with Michigan State, 71-56.
MSU won the first meeting between the teams two weeks ago, 78-71, at Assembly Hall in Bloomington.
The win ended a three-game win streak for the Hoosiers in the series.
The teams have split the last six games.
Seven of the last nine games in the series have been decided by 10 points or fewer, including five games decided by five points or fewer.
The last five games have been decided by an average of 3.8 points.
Tom Izzo is 26-17 in his career against Indiana.
MSU is 39-23 all-time at home against Indiana, including a 21-2 mark at the Breslin Center.

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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