Thursday, March 11
11:30 a.m.
Michigan State University
vs
Maryland
Michigan State Meets Maryland in Big Ten Tournament on Thursday
3/10/2021 11:17:00 AM | Men's Basketball
East Lansing, Mich. – Michigan State enters the Big Ten Tournament as the No. 9 seed following a 70-64 win over Michigan on Sunday. The Spartans will play No. 8 seed Maryland on March 11 (11:30 a.m.), with the winner facing top seed Michigan on Friday.
MSU has won four of the last eight Big Ten Tournaments and reached the finals in five of the last eight. The Spartans closed out the regular season with six games in a span of 13 days, including four games against teams ranked in the Top 5 of the Associated Press poll. MSU has won five of its last seven games, including three Top 5 wins (Illinois, Ohio State, Michigan). 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 Kevin Kugler, Stephen Bardo and Andy Katz 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 and Internet 372.
Records
Michigan State enters the Big Ten Tournament with a 15-11 overall, including a 9-11 mark in the Big Ten Conference, while Maryland is 15-12 overall and had a 9-11 league mark.
About the Spartans
MSU has won four of the last eight Big Ten Tournaments and reached the finals in five of the last eight. The Spartans closed out the regular season with six games in a span of 13 days, including four games against teams ranked in the Top 5 of the Associated Press poll. MSU has won five of its last seven games, including three Top 5 wins (Illinois, Ohio State, Michigan). 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 Kevin Kugler, Stephen Bardo and Andy Katz 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 and Internet 372.
Records
Michigan State enters the Big Ten Tournament with a 15-11 overall, including a 9-11 mark in the Big Ten Conference, while Maryland is 15-12 overall and had a 9-11 league mark.
About the Spartans
- The Spartans feature a balanced attack, with All-Big Ten Third Team selection Aaron Henry leading the way with 15.5 points per game, two other players averaging nearly 10.0 points per game, 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 (15.5 ppg) and assists (3.5 apg) and is second on the team with 5.6 rebounds while adding 1.3 blocks and 1.3 steals per game.
- He is one of only two Division I players averaging at least 15.0 points, 5.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.3 blocks per game.
- Redshirt junior forward Joey Hauser is second on the team in scoring with 9.9 points and leads the team with 5.9 rebounds per game … Hauser has four double-double's this year.
- Graduate guard Joshua Langford, who has scored in double figures in 11 of the last 17 games, is third on the team with 9.8 points, while adding 3.4 rebounds and 1.8 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.
- Sophomore guard Rocket Watts is fifth on the team with 7.8 points and second with 2.7 assists ... Watts scored 21 points in the regular season finale against Michigan and has three games this season with at least 20 points.
- Junior forward Gabe Brown, who has scored in double figures in four of the last nine games, is fifth on the team with 7.4 points and has connected on 44.0 percent of his 3-point field goals (33-of-75).
- Sophomore forward Malik Hall is averaging 4.2 points, 4.1 rebounds and 1.3 assists and sophomore forward Julius Marble adds 4.0 points and 2.1 rebounds.
- Junior forward Marcus Bingham Jr. is averaging 3.3 points, 3.2 rebounds and 1.3 blocks, junior forward Thomas Kithier chips in 2.4 points and 2.4 rebounds and freshman guard A.J. Hoggard is averaging 2.5 points, 2.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists.
- Senior guard Eric Ayala is one of three players scoring in double figures, leading the team with 14.6 points per game.
- Senior guard Darryl Morsell was named the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year by the league's coaches.
- 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.
- The Spartans are looking to capture their seventh Big Ten Tournament.championship, as they are the only Big Ten team with six tournament titles.
- In 22 previous years of the Big Ten Tournament, MSU has a record of 32-16.
- The Spartans won the tournament in 1999, 2000, 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2019, and lost in the quarterfinals in 1998, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2010 and 2017.
- MSU lost in the semifinals in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2018, and dropped the 2015 title game in overtime.
- Michigan State leads the all-time series with Maryland, 10-7.
- The Spartans have won seven of the last 10 games against the Terrapins.
- Tom Izzo is 9-7 in his career against Maryland, including a 2-0 mark in the Big Ten Tournament.
- Maryland won the lone meeting this year, 73-55, in College Park.
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