Thursday, January 19
East Lansing, Mich.
6:30 PM
Michigan State University
vs
Rutgers
Photo by: Matthew Mitchell
Spartans Return Home, Host Iowa on Thursday Night at the Breslin Center
1/25/2023 3:40:00 PM | Men's Basketball
East Lansing, Mich. – Michigan State returns home to the Breslin Center on Thursday, Jan. 26, hosting Iowa (7 p.m., FS1).
The game will air live on FS1, with Gus Johnson and Jim Jackson 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 channels 385 on SiriusXM and channel 975 on the SiriusXM app.
About the Spartans
The game will air live on FS1, with Gus Johnson and Jim Jackson 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 channels 385 on SiriusXM and channel 975 on the SiriusXM app.
About the Spartans
- Michigan State has won eight of its last 11 games and enters the game on Thursday with a 13-7 overall record, including a 5-4 mark in Big Ten play.
- The Spartans are 8-2 at home, including a 3-2 mark in conference play.
- MSU averages 69.9 points per game at home, while shooting 45.9 percent from the floor (39.6% from 3-point) and is holding opponents to 59.8 ppg and 37.8 percent shooting from the floor (24.3% from 3-point).
- MSU is second in the B1G in scoring defense (62.3 ppg) and first in FG% defense (40.0%).
- The Spartans are No. 5 nationally in the NET Strength of Schedule ...
- The Spartans, who played one of the nation's toughest schedules in the country to open the season, have faced the 2nd-toughest slate of opposing offenses in the country, the 9th-toughest slate of opposing defenses and rank No. 3 overall in strength of schedule, per KenPom.com.
- Through 20 games, senior guard Tyson Walker leads the team in scoring with 14.3 ppg, while adding 2.5 rebounds and 2.6 assists.
- Graduate forward Joey Hauser is second on the team in scoring with 13.8 points per game and leads the team with rebounds with 7.7 per game, while shooting 48.0 percent from the floor and 40.9 percent from 3-point land.
- Junior guard A.J. Hoggard is third on the team with 12.7 points, fourth with 3.8 rebounds and leads the team (and is 2nd in the Big Ten) with 6.1 assists per game ... Hoggard is one of three Division I players in the country averaging at least 12.0 ppg, 3.5 rpg and 6.0 apg (Penn State's Jalen Pickett and Colorado State's Isaiah Stevens).
- Senior forward Malik Hall, who has missed the last three games and 11 overall, is fourth on the team with 9.9 ppg and third with 4.1 rpg.
- Sophomore guard Jaden Akins is averaging 8.6 points and 3.5 rebounds.
- Junior forward Mady Sissoko is averaging 5.6 points and is second on the team with 6.8 rebounds ... Sophomore Pierre Brooks II is averaging 4.9 points and 2.4 rebounds.
- Freshman forward Jaxon Kohler, who had his first career double-double with 12 points and 11 rebounds in the win over No. 23 Rutgers, is averaging 3.8 points and 3.5 rebounds.
- Iowa enters the game on Thursday with a 12-7 overall record and a 4-4 mark in the Big Ten following a 93-77 loss at Ohio State on Jan. 21.
- The loss ended a four-game win streak for the Hawkeyes, who opened conference play with three-straight losses before posting wins against Indiana, at Rutgers and at home against Michigan and Maryland.
- Iowa is 2-3 on the road, including a 1-3 mark in conference play, with loss at Ohio State, Nebraska and Penn State.
- In Big Ten games, junior forward Kris Murray leads the league in scoring (23.4 ppg) and is ninth in rebounding (7.4 rpg).
- Iowa leads the Big Ten in scoring offense in conference games (77.8 ppg) and is 14th in the league in scoring defense (78.1 ppg).
- Michigan State and Iowa meet for the first time this season and for the 135th time in program history ... MSU leads the all-time series with Iowa, 76-58.
- The Spartans are 46-19 at home against the Hawkeyes, including a 21-4 mark at the Breslin Center.
- Iowa has won the last three games in the series, including an 86-60 decision in Iowa City last year.
- The Hawkeyes won the last game at the Breslin Center, 88-58, in 2021.
- MSU had won the three previous meetings in East Lansing.
- Tom Izzo is 34-14 in his career against Iowa.
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