Michigan State basketball

The Michigan State Spartans defeated Michigan earlier this season, but now they will try to sweep the Wolverines. This game will be a highly emotional one. It's ...

Michigan played a very close and tough game at Wisconsin and might be spent in the final five minutes. Michigan State, by playing only one game this week (this game versus Michigan), might have a little more of a finishing kick late in regulation. That game was postponed because of the shooting on the Michigan State University campus on Monday. Find out how to watch Michigan State Michigan. The Spartans — casting aside their emotions and their thoughts, and how they will emotionally respond to this game — will be physically fresh after not playing a game against Minnesota a few days ago. Merely discussing winning streaks, NCAA Tournament odds, and bubble profiles doesn’t tell the fuller story of a game and its relative tension points.

Joey Hauser had a game-high 20 for MSU (16-10, 8-7), followed by 14 points from Malik Hall and 11 from Tyson Walker. Michigan guard Dug McDaniel ...

MSU tied the game at 67 with a pair of Hauser free throws, then again at 72 when Walker hit a 3-pointer over Baker. Dickinson kicked out to Baker for a 3-pointer to cut the deficit in half, then Reed got a rebound and finished a layup over Hauser despite a foul. The game would stay within three points until Hauser hit a 3-pointer to put MSU up six, 63-57, and force a U-M timeout. After Hauser hit three free throws to open the second half, Bufkin responded with a three-pointer to get back within three. The Wolverines, as they did all night, punched back, with a Joey Baker 3-pointer and McDaniel floater to get within one. McDaniel scored the Wolverines first seven points on three straight buckets; a mid-range jumper, a corner 3 and steal and score off Walker to put Michigan up, 7-2, early.

Michigan State men's basketball fell to their rival Wolverines, 84-72, on an emotional night at the Crisler Center in Ann Arbor.

Michigan had strong guard play all night long. Dug McDaniel and Kobe Bufkin were both in double figures. This was a big win for Michigan's tournament hopes, and ...

Michigan has been very supportive of MSU and will continue to do so before this game. McDaniel has 11 for Michigan and Joey Hauser has 10 for MSU. -2H 12:00: Michigan seems to have the momentum right now. Both teams will look to avoid long scoring droughts. -1H: Michigan clawing back a bit. Both teams are, as the kids say, "hooping." -2H 15:46: Action-packed start to the half. MSU is in the midst of one its patented cold spells. For Michigan State, it was the same old story. -2H 14:10: Jett Howard, Michigan's leading scorer, hit a jumper then landed awkwardly on his ankle. -2H 7:15: MSU has had several opportunities to distance itself, but can't capitalize. However, MSU had other things on their minds in this one.

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- Michigan vs. Michigan State? So who wins Michigan vs. The model has simulated Michigan State vs. Michigan 10,000 times and the results are in. Before entering any Michigan State vs. Michigan State](https://www.sportsline.com/college-basketball/game-forecast/NCAAB_20230218_MICHST@MICH/). Hoggard](/college-basketball/players/3178434/a-j-hoggard/) and [Tyson Walker](/college-basketball/players/3142217/tyson-walker/) combined for 29 points and eight assists in the 62-41 final. Michigan has been excellent at home during conference play, going 6-2 in its last eight games. The Wolverines are favored by 2 points in the latest Michigan vs. Michigan State odds from Caesars Sportsbook, while the over/under is set at 136. The Spartans are tied for sixth place in the Big Ten standings, while Michigan is tied for eighth place.

In-state rival Spartans and Wolverines basketball teams gave a performance worthy of the moment following the tragic shooting on Michigan State's campus.

After losing two straight games — in close calls — Michigan basketball desperately needed a win heading into Saturday night to keep NCAA Tournament hopes ...

But on Saturday, Michigan boxed out well and the Wolverines worked well together. But the real story was the emergence of Tarris Reed Jr. The maize and blue took care of the basketball and made sound passes. The second half went back and forth for almost the entire half. But there was no shortage of offense in the first half on Saturday. The maize and blue lost in East Lansing earlier in the season by six.

Michigan beat Michigan State 84-72 on Saturday night at Crisler Center in the Michigan State men's basketball team's first game since Monday's mass shooting on ...

A lengthy silent tribute was held ahead of the Michigan State-Michigan men's basketball game Saturday night, as the teams honored the victims of this week's ...

The women's basketball team also returned to action Saturday, hosting Maryland in a loss Saturday afternoon. "It was a way to get away from it, not forget it, but definitely I think just be around each other is what we wanted the most out of it." Michigan scored the final 12 points of what was a tightly contested game for the first 38 minutes to pull away for a 84-72 win. The Spartans skipped a trip to Minnesota earlier this week. "You think so much about the families that were affected and the people that were there. Izzo teared up while standing with his team in "Spartan Strong" T-shirts during the pregame ceremony.

Sissoko held his own against Oscar Tshiebwe and Drew Timme and even looked like he outplayed those two All-Americans, at times. Since then, he's struggled to ...

If he comes back, Michigan State is going to be dangerous in March. If Michigan State plans on making any sort of noise in the NCAA Tournament this March, Sissoko needs to step his game up drastically. Mady Sissoko was a revelation in the first few weeks of the season.