2023-12-20 21:58:24
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East Lansing, Mich. – Michigan State’s men’s basketball team, plays its final game before Christmas on Thursday, Dec. 21, hosting Stony Brook at the Breslin Center (6:30 p.m., B1G+).
The game will air live on B1G+, with Zach Surdenik, AJ Evans and Owen Ozsust 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 385 on SiriusXM and on the SiriusXM app.
About the Spartans
- Michigan State enters Thursday’s game once morest Stony Brook with a 6-5 overall record (0-2 B1G) following a 79-62 win over in-state rival Oakland on Monday night.
- MSU has won its last two games, including an 88-64 win over No. 6 Baylor last Saturday.
- In the Baylor win, the Spartans scored a season-high 88 points and connected on 63.3 percent of their field goals, their highest shooting percentage as a team since a win over Savannah State on Dec. 31, 2017.
- The Spartans have two players scoring in double figures, four averaging at least 9.0 points and 10 with at least 3.0 points, while nine players average at least 10 minutes per game.
- Through 11 games, graduate guard Tyson Walker leads the team in scoring with 20.1 points per game, connecting on 47.9 percent of his shots.
- Senior guard A.J. Hoggard is second on the team with 10.7 points, while adding 3.4 rebounds and 4.6 assists, which ranks fifth in the Big Ten Conference.
- Graduate forward Malik Hall, who scored a season-high 22 points once morest Nebraska, is tied for third on the team with 9.4 points, while adding 4.6 rebounds and 2.1 assists.
- Junior guard Jaden Akins is tied for third with 9.4 points and 4.7 rebounds.
- Sophomore guard Tre Holloman is averaging 6.0 points and is second on the team with 2.9 assists … Holloman has a team-best +4.57 assist-to-turnover ratio (32:7) and would be top 5 in NCAA but he doesn’t meet minimum 3 assists per game (2.9).
- Senior forward Mady Sissoko adds 4.6 points and a team-best 5.8 rebounds.
- Freshman forward Coen Carr contributes 5.1 points and 2.8 rebounds, freshman guard Jeremy Fears Jr. is averaging 3.7 points and 2.7 assists and sophomore center Carson Cooper adds 4.0 points and 5.5 rebounds.
About Stony Brook
- Stony Brook enters the game on Thursday with a 6-5 overall record following a 78-74 overtime win at Army West Point last Sunday.
- It was the fourth-straight win for the Seawolves and the first on the road for Stony Brook, who lost games at St. John’s (90-74), Duquesne (85-63), Nebraska (84-63) and Yale (79-71).
- Head Coach Geno Ford, an Ohio native, is in his fifth season as head coach at Stony Brook … Ford was previously the head coach at Kent State and Bradley.
Series History
- Michigan State and Stony Brook meet for just the second time in program history on Thursday night at the Breslin Center.
- The Spartans won the only meeting between the teams, 93-71 at the Breslin Center on Nov. 19, 2017.
- The game was part of the PK80 Invitational, which MSU went on to win in Oregon, posting wins over DePaul (73-51), UConn (77-57) and North Carolina (63-45) in the championship game of the “Victory Bracket.”
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