WASHINGTON – No. 3 seed Michigan State performs No. 2 seed UConn on Friday, March 27 in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament at Capital One Arena in the Nation’s Capital (9:45 p.m., CBS). MSU posted a 77-69 win over No. 6 seed Louisville final Saturday to advance to the Sweet 16 for the third time in 4 years, with junior ahead Coen Carr recording his first profession double-double with 21 factors and 10 rebounds.
Friday night time’s recreation will air dwell on CBS, with Ian Eagle, Bill Raftery and Grant Hill calling all of the motion. The Spartan Media Network radio name will be heard state-wide, with Will Tieman dealing with the play-by-play, Matt Steigenga serving as the colour analyst and Dalton Shetler as the studio host. The recreation may also be heard on channels 203 or 210 on SiriusXM or on the SiriusXM app.
About the Spartans
- Michigan State enters Friday’s NCAA East Regional with a 27-7 total file (15-5 in the Big Ten Conference).
- The Spartans are No. 11 in the newest Associated Press ESPN Coaches ballot (March 16).
- MSU is No. 11 in the NCAA Net Rankings and No. 9 per KenPom.
- Through 34 video games, MSU has 4 gamers scoring in double figures and eight averaging a minimum of 5.0 ppg.
- MSU’s captains (Carson Cooper, Jaxon Kohler, Coen Carr and Jeremy Fears Jr.) have mixed for 64.1% of the workforce’s scoring (1,728 of two,695 factors) and common 50.8 ppg, 23.9 rpg and 13.4 assists.
- Jeremy Fears Jr., who leads the workforce with 32.3 minutes performed, leads the workforce with 15.3 ppg and is handing out 9.4 assists per recreation, tops in the nation … His 321 whole assists rank No. 2 in the nation … His 8.8 apg in B1G video games tied the season file of 8.8 set by Purdue’s Braden Smith final 12 months.
- Jaxon Kohler is second on the workforce in scoring with 12.6 ppg and tops the workforce with 8.9 rpg (third B1G, #35 nationally) … Kohler ranks No. 28 nationally with 12 double-doubles this season & has scored in double figures 24 instances … His 8.9 rebounds are the most since Xavier Tillman Sr. had 10.3 in 2019-20.
- Coen Carr, considered one of the most athletic gamers in all of school basketball, is third on the workforce with 12.0 ppg, third on the workforce with 5.5 rpg and 1.2 apg in 29.0 mpg.
- Carson Cooper, who had 16 factors and a career-best 16 rebounds vs. Duke and tied his career-high of 20 factors in opposition to North Dakota State, is taking part in a career-high 26.7 mpg, is fourth on the workforce with 11.0 ppg and second with 7.1 rpg, tenth in the B1G … He has scored in double figures 20 instances.
- Jordan Scott is averaging 5.9 ppg and three.0 rpg in 20.8 mpg (with 7.4 ppg and a pair of.9 rpg in 22.9 mpg in B1G play) and Cam Ward is scoring 5.2 ppg and is fourth on the workforce with 4.2 rpg.
- Kur Teng, who scored a career-high 18 factors at Indiana, is averaging 7.5 ppg and a pair of.0 rpg, whereas senior guard Trey Fort is tallying 4.2 ppg, redshirt freshman Jesse McCulloch is averaging 2.4 ppg and 1.3 rpg and senior guard Denham Wojcik averages 1.2 assists in 5.6 minutes … Divine Ugochukwu, out for the season with a left foot harm, averaged 5.1 ppg, 1.5 rpg and 1.6 apg in 16.9 mpg in 22 video games.
Spartans in the Sweet 16
- Since the NCAA Tournament expanded to 64 groups in 1985, Michigan State has superior to the spherical of 32 on 27 events.
- This is MSU’s nineteenth journey to the Sweet 16 since the NCAA Tournament expanded to 64 groups in 1985, together with the seventeenth below Tom Izzo.
- Michigan State is 11-7 in Sweet 16 video games since 1985, having received 11 of its final 15 … All-time, MSU is 15-7 in the regional semifinals.
- Tom Izzo is 11-5 in the Sweet 16.
MSU in the NCAA Tournament
- Michigan State is making its thirty ninth look in the NCAA Tournament with a file of 78-37 (.678) in its earlier 38 tournaments.
- MSU has made 10 journeys to the Final Four (1957, 1979, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2019) and captured the NCAA Championship in 1979 and 2000.
- MSU’s .678 successful proportion is the ninth-best all-time in NCAA Tournament play, whereas the program s 78 whole victories rank sixth all-time.
- Michigan State’s 10 Final Four appearances are tied for sixth most.
- MSU’s 39 event appearances are tied for the ninth-most all-time.
Izzo’s NCAA Streak
- Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo is making his Twenty eighth-straight look in the NCAA Tournament.
- It is the longest streak in Division I males s basketball historical past, rating forward of Gonzaga s Mark Few (26, energetic), Duke s Mike Krzyzewski (24) and North Carolina s Dean Smith (23).
- Izzo’s 28 event appearances rank tied for fifth-most all-time, and are second amongst energetic coaches behind solely Rick Barnes (30, Tennessee, Texas, Clemson, Providence).
Seventeen Sweet 16’s in 28 Years
- Since Michigan State’s first journey to the NCAA Tournament below Tom Izzo in 1998, the Spartans have superior to the Sweet 16 17 instances in the final 28 tournaments.
- In that interval, solely Duke (21) has appeared in extra Sweet 16s The Spartans have reached the Sweet 16 11 instances in the final 18 tournaments.
About UConn
- Second-seeded UConn enters the Sweet 16 with a 31-5 file after defeating No. 15 seed Furman in the first spherical of the NCAA Tournament, 82-71 and No. 7 seed UCLA in the second spherical, 73-57.
- The Huskies completed in second place in the BIG EAST standings at 17-3, one recreation behind St. John’s.
Series History
- Friday’s recreation will mark the ninth all-time assembly between Michigan State and UConn and the third in the NCAA Tournament.
- The sequence is presently tied at 4-4 and 1-1 in the NCAA Tournament.
- The Spartans have received the final two conferences with a 77-57 win on Nov. 24, 2017, in the PK80 in Portland, Oregon, and a 64-60 victory on Nov. 25, 2021, in the Battle 4 Atlantis in The Bahamas.
- MSU beat UConn in the 2009 Final Four at Ford Field in Detroit, 82-73, however fell in the 2014 East Regional Final, 60-54, at Madison Square Garden.
- The two groups met in an exhibition earlier this season in Hartford on Oct. 28, with UConn successful, 76-69.
