Thursday, January 11
Urbana-Champaign, Ill.
9 PM
Michigan State University
at
Illinois
Michigan State Closes Out Two-Game Road Swing on Thursday Night at Illinois
1/10/2024 5:04:00 PM | Men's Basketball
East Lansing, Mich. – Michigan State's men's basketball team plays the second of a pair of road games in Illinois on Thursday, Jan. 11, playing No. 10/10 Illinois (9 p.m., FS1). The Spartans are coming off an 88-74 loss at Northwestern on Sunday night, snapping a five-game win streak.
The game will air live on FS1, with Tim Brando and Bill Raftery calling all of the action. The Spartan Media Network radio call can be heard state-wide and on the web at MSUSpartans.com, with Will Tieman handling the play-by-play and Matt Steigenga serving as the color analyst, and Blake Froling is the studio host. The game can also be heard on channel 381 on SiriusXM and on the SiriusXM app.
About the Spartans
The game will air live on FS1, with Tim Brando and Bill Raftery calling all of the action. The Spartan Media Network radio call can be heard state-wide and on the web at MSUSpartans.com, with Will Tieman handling the play-by-play and Matt Steigenga serving as the color analyst, and Blake Froling is the studio host. The game can also be heard on channel 381 on SiriusXM and on the SiriusXM app.
About the Spartans
- Michigan State enters Thursday's game at Illinois with a 9-6 overall record (1-3 B1G) following an 88-74 loss at Northwestern on Sunday night.
- The Spartans had a five-game win streak ended with the loss at Northwestern.
- The Spartans have four players scoring in double figures, and 10 with at least 3.0 points, while 10 players average at least 10 minutes per game.
- Through 15 games, graduate guard Tyson Walker leads the team in scoring with 20.6 points per game, connecting on 49.1 percent of his shots.
- In Big Ten games, Walker is averaging 22.0 ppg, while shooting 50.0 percent from the floor (35-of-70) and 50.0 percent from 3-point land (13-of-26).
- Senior guard A.J. Hoggard is second on the team with 11.3 points, while adding 3.2 rebounds and 5.1 assists, which ranks third in the Big Ten Conference.
- Junior guard Jaden Akins, who scored a career-high 22 points against Stony Brook, is third with 10.7 points and 4.1 rebounds.
- Graduate forward Malik Hall, who scored a season-high 22 points against Nebraska and matched his career-high with 24 points against Penn State, is fourth on the team with 10.3 points, while adding 4.5 rebounds and 2.1 assists.
- Sophomore guard Tre Holloman is averaging 6.0 points and is second on the team with 3.2 assists ... Holloman has a team-best +5.33 assist-to-turnover ratio (48:9) and ranks No. 2 in the country in that category.
- Senior forward Mady Sissoko adds 5.0 points and a team-best 6.6 rebounds, which is 15th in the Big Ten Conference.
- Freshman forward Coen Carr contributes 4.8 points and 2.8 rebounds and sophomore center Carson Cooper, who scored a career-high 10 points at Northwestern, adds 4.1 points and 5.3 rebounds.
- Freshman forward Coen Carr contributes 5.1 points and 2.9 rebounds, freshman guard Jeremy Fears Jr. is averaging 3.5 points and 3.3 assists and sophomore center Carson Cooper adds 3.6 points and 5.2 rebounds.
- Illinois enters the game on Thursday night with an 11-3 overall record, including a 2-1 mark in the Big Ten.
- The Illini are coming off an 83-78 loss at Purdue last Friday and Thursday's game with the Spartans will be their first game in five days.
- Their only other losses this season are at home to Marquette (71-64) and at Tennessee (86-79).
- In the last three games, graduate guard Marcus Domask is averaging 23.0 ppg while shooting 53.8 percent from the floor and graduate forward Quincy Guerrier is averaging 15.3 points and 10.3 rebounds.
- Illinois ranks third in the Big Ten in scoring offense (83.5 ppg) and is eighth in the league in scoring defense (66.8 ppg).
- The game on Thursday night between Michigan State and Illinois is the 128th meeting all-time.
- The Spartans lead the head-to-head series, 64-63, while Illinois has won the last three meetings between the teams.
- Illinois won last year's lone meeting, 75-66, on Jan. 13 in Champaign (read more below).
- MSU is 21-42 in games played on the road and has lost three of the last four on the road.
- MSU's last win at Illinois was a 70-69 decision on Feb. 11, 2020.
- In the last 29 games in the series, 25 games have been decided by 10 points or fewer.
- Tom Izzo is 27-21 in his career against the Illini.
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