No. 25 Michigan State Plays at Michigan Tuesday Night

EAST LANSING, Mich. – Michigan State begins its final week of the regular season with two road games, starting on Tuesday, March 1 at Michigan. Following Tuesday's game, the Spartans play at Ohio State on Thursday, March 3 before closing out the regular season at home vs. Maryland.

The game will air live on FS1, with Tim Brando and Donny Marshall 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 Kevin Pauga serving as the color analyst. The game can also be heard on Sirius 85, XM 195 and channel 957 on the SiriusXM app.

About the Spartans

Michigan State enters the game on Tuesday with a 19-9 overall record (10-7 Big Ten).
MSU is coming off a 68-65 win over No. 4 Purdue on Saturday.
The Spartans are ranked #25 in the ESPN Coaches poll and are receiving votes in the Associated Press poll (#32).
MSU is #33 in the NET Rankings (#16 in Strength of Schedule), #26 in the Basketball Power Index and #34 by KenPom.
The Spartans are 8-6 away from home this year, including 5-4 in true road games.
The Spartans have been led this year by a stingy defense, which ranks among the leaders in the Big Ten in field goal percentage defense (No. 2, 40.9%), 3-point field goal percentage defense (No. 2, 30.5%), rebounding margin (No. 4, +4.86 rpg) and blocked shots (No. 1, 5.36 bpg).
Senior forward Gabe Brown leads the team in scoring with 11.4 ppg, while adding 4.0 rebounds and leads the team in 3-pointers made with 55.
Junior forward Malik Hall is second on the team in scoring with 9.8 ppg, while adding 4.9 rpg and 1.2 apg.
Freshman guard Max Christie is third on the team with 9.6 points and has been named Big Ten Freshman of the Week five times.
Senior forward Marcus Bingham Jr. is averaging 8.9 ppg and leads the team with 6.0 rebounds and 2.3 blocked shots per game.
Junior guard Tyson Walker is averaging 8.1 ppg and is second on the team with 4.3 assists.
Redshirt senior forward Joey Hauser adds 7.0 ppg and is second on the team with 5.5 rpg, while junior forward Julius Marble is averaging 6.4 ppg and 3.6 rpg.
In the last five games, Marble is averaging 9.8 ppg and 8.6 rpg, while shooting 68.0 percent from the floor.
Sophomore A.J. Hoggard is averaging 6.8 ppg and leads the team with 5.2 assists.

About Michigan

Michigan enters the game on Tuesday with a 15-12 overall record and a 9-8 mark in the Big Ten following a 93-85 loss to Illinois on Sunday.
The Wolverines have lost three of their last five games, with a win over Rutgers at home on Feb. 23.
Sophomore center Hunter Dickinson is one of four players scoring in double figures, leading the team with 17.8 ppg, fifth in the Big Ten, and 8.3 rpg, which ranks fourth in the league.
Michigan ranks seventh in the Big Ten in scoring offense (72.2 ppg) and 10th in scoring defense (68.4 ppg).

Series History

Michigan State and Michigan will play for the 190th time in series history when the teams meet on Tuesday night.
This will be the second meeting of the season between the teams, as MSU beat Michigan, 83-67, last month.
The first game was postponed due to COVID-19 issues within the UM program.
Michigan leads the all-time series with Michigan State, 102-86.
The Spartans have won six of the last eight meetings.
Tom Izzo is 31-19 in his career against the Wolverines.

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Players Mentioned

Marcus Bingham Jr.

Gabe Brown

Max Christie

Malik Hall

Joey Hauser

A.J. Hoggard

Tyson Walker