The Spartans are coming off back-to-back wins and the Wolverines are coming off back-to-back losses. The two are going in different directions, again, ships passing in the night, heading into a Tuesday night matchup at Crisler Center.
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There’s no need to dust off any game plans or dig deep into the game film — Michigan State and Michigan are set to square off again on Tuesday night, just a little more than a week since the last meeting in East Lansing. This time it comes at 9 p.m. at Crisler Center and Michigan will be attempting to end a five-game skid against Michigan State while the Spartans are looking to continue to build on two straight conference wins.
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Tum Tum Nairn was reminded today that he has not lost to Michigan during his first 2 1/2 seasons at Michigan State. “Wanna keep it that way,” the junior point guard said with a grin. And with that, Rivalry Week II commenced this morning. Nine days after the Spartans beat the Wolverines at home, they’ll make the return trip to Ann Arbor on Tuesday (9 p.m., ESPN).
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Michigan State travels to Ann Arbor to face Michigan for the second game between the two rivals in a span of 10 days. Both teams have played just once since the first meeting on Jan. 29 in East Lansing. Five of the last seven meetings in Ann Arbor have been decided by nine points or less, including three games by a single point.
Miles Bridges had 15 points and 13 rebounds, helping Michigan State beat Michigan 70-62 Sunday. The Spartans (13-9, 5-4 Big Ten) won their fifth straight game in the series and ended a three-game losing streak this season.
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Michigan State takes down Michigan behind Miles Bridges, Cassius Winston MLive
The 178th all-time meeting between Michigan and Michigan State was far from the prettiest. The Spartans don’t care about that. They’ll take it. Behind 15 points from Miles Bridges, including two clutch baskets in the final three minutes, Michigan State pulled out a 70-62 win over the rival Wolverines on Sunday. The win, crucial to MSU’s postseason chances, improved Tom Izzo’s team to 13-9 overall and 5-4 in the Big Ten.
MSU ‘D’ hangs tough for triumph over rival Michigan Detroit News
Michigan came into the Breslin Center on Sunday on a bit of a roll. Michigan State came in desperate for a win. That desperation proved to be the difference as Michigan State beat Michigan, 70-62, to end a three-game skid and win for the fifth straight time over the Wolverines.
Michigan State snaps 3-game losing streak, beats Michigan 70-62 Land of 10
The freshmen trio of Miles Bridges, Nick Ward and Cassius Winston combined for 44 points and Michigan State used a big second-half surge to knock off rival Michigan, 70-62, Sunday afternoon at the Breslin Center.
Michigan State snaps losing skid, beats rival Michigan 70-62 Spartan Tailgate
Michigan State beat its in-state rival for the fifth straight time but even more importantly ended a three-game losing skid with a 70-62 win over Michigan on Sunday at Breslin Center. The Spartans led by as many as 12 points in the second half and fended off the Wolverines in the final minutes to pick up the win.
Freshmen guide Michigan State to crucial 70-62 win over Michigan Detroit Free Press
Miles Bridges got the help he wanted. Michigan State got a win it needed. The Spartans used a 12-2 run midway through the second half to pull away to a 70-62 victory over Michigan today at Breslin Center, snapping a three-game losing streak.
Michigan State Spartans Get a Much Needed Win Over Arch-Rival Michigan 70-62 Spartan Nation
The Michigan State Spartans came into this heated rivalry game riding a three-game losing streak and losers of four of the last five. They snapped it with a gutsy and often chippy 70-62 win over the Wolverines.
Three Takeaways: Spartans Snap Three-Game Skid, Outlast Michigan 70-62 The Only Colors
Slump busted. Sunday saved. Michigan sad. After some tough losses, and the emergence of legit bubble talk, Michigan State is back in the win column after knocking off Michigan.
Winston, Bridges push MSU past U-M to snap losing streak State News
Technical fouls, blood drawn and words exchanged, all important ingredients for a rivalry game. Led by the freshman class, MSU men’s basketball (13-9, 5-4 Big Ten) shook off the three game losing streak to eek past the Michigan Wolverines (14-8, 4-5 Big Ten), 70-62.
Spartans use team effort to fend off rival Wolverines isportsweb
Michigan State extended it’s win streak to five over Michigan, defeating the Wolverines by a final score of 70-62 on Sunday afternoon at the Breslin Center. “It was a full team effort. Everyone stepped up and that’s what we needed to win,” Miles Bridges said.
Michigan State uses defense and balance in win over up-and-down Michigan MLive
Michigan State topped Michigan, 70-62, in Sunday rivalry showdown. Some immediate observations from Breslin Center
What he said: Tom Izzo after Michigan State ends 3-game skid with 70-62 win against Michigan Land of 10
Michigan State was in need of a victory in bad way Sunday, and that’s exactly what Tom Izzo’s Spartans got as they beat Michigan 70-62 at the Breslin Center.
Freshmen, Matt McQuaid, help MSU inch toward full potential vs. U-M Detroit Free Press
They were relieved when it was over, because they knew what had been at stake. Oh, the Michigan State Spartans didn’t want to publicly pin its postseason hopes on beating rival Michigan this afternoon at the Breslin Center. But they understood what a loss to the Wolverines would’ve meant.
Grinz On Green: Team Effort Leads To Victory MSUSpartans.com
And they say committees never accomplish anything. Michigan State and Michigan had sparred for nearly 24 minutes Sunday afternoon at the Breslin Center with neither archrival making a bold move to assert itself. By the time the lead had changed hands for the ninth time, with U-M going ahead 38-36, the game was begging for someone to take control of the situation.
Freshmen bypass jitters to lead MSU to rivalry win Impact Sports
Michigan State and the University of Michigan gave you everything you could want in a rivalry game: 12 lead changes, trash talking among players, multiple technical fouls, a few minor scraps and other than a few garbage points at the end, a close finish. MSU took the first game of 2017, beating the Wolverines 70-62.
MSU notes: Healthier Bridges flashes versatility, passing against U-M Detroit Free Press
Everyone wondered how Miles Bridges would be used when he got healthy and fully reintegrated into Michigan State’s offense. The final stretch of the Spartans’ 70-62 win over Michigan today offered a good glimpse into how Tom Izzo plans to maximize his star’s versatile talents.
Couch: McQuaid finally shoots, so MSU beats Michigan Lansing State Journal
Believe it or not, Matt McQuaid is known sometimes by his Michigan State teammates as “Big Shot ’Quaido.” He didn’t earn the nickname anytime recently. They’ve been begging him to shoot. Sunday, when MSU absolutely needed it, he finally did. Even if he should have taken a few more.
McQuaid finally busts out of his shooting slump Detroit News
Michigan State needed a win on Sunday, but it got something else in the process that might be just as important. The Spartans ended a three-game skid by beating rival Michigan, 70-62, at the Breslin Center and that was certainly important for a team that had lost four of five and has been starting to feel the pressure with the second half of the Big Ten season all that is left.
The Spartans enter today’s game in need of a win to keep their postseason trajectory on course. MSU, which has lost three straight, can’t afford to drop home games to NCAA tournament bubble teams if it wants to avoid being on the bubble itself.
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Neither Michigan nor Michigan State is ranked. Neither is in the top three of the Big Ten standings. Neither is a sure thing to the make the NCAA Tournament.
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It has been a season of ups and downs for both the MSU Spartans (12-9, 4-4 Big Ten) and the University of Michigan Wolverines (14-7, 4-4 Big Ten), but the rivals will meet Sunday afternoon for the first time this season in a must-win matchup for both teams.
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These bitter rivals each enter this game at 4-4 in conference, but are trending in opposite directions of late.MSU started out 4-1 but have scuffled since and are looking to break a three-game slump. Michigan, however, is on a mini-two game winning streak, the latest of which came courtesy of an almost irresponsibly good shooting performance in a 90-60 home rout Indiana.
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Everything Michigan State’s four talented freshmen know about facing Michigan for the first time on Sunday afternoon has entered their consciousness as educated guesswork, from hearsay or through osmosis. “You hear people around campus saying, `Beat Michigan,’ ” said Miles Bridges, fresh off his Spartan freshman-record 33-point performance against Purdue. “You can just feel the intensity rising every time we practice.”
Michigan State hosts Michigan in the first of two meetings between the in-state rivals in a period of 10 days. The Spartans and Wolverines met just once last season, with MSU claiming an 89-73 victory in Ann Arbor. The last time the rivals met in Breslin Center, Michigan State needed overtime to secure a 76-66 win.
Trying to find out which team has more at stake in a rivalry game like this is difficult, especially since Michigan enters on a bit of a roll with a chance to establish itself as a tournament team and one that belongs in the top half of the conference.
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Everything about this week is a little bit different. Walking on campus, Michigan State basketball players are approached by their fellow students with words of encouragement a bit more. There’s a buzz in East Lansing and an excitement that would be there whether the Spartans were 20-0 or 0-20.
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If a rivalry game didn’t have enough meaning behind it already, when the Michigan State Basketball team takes on its in-state rivals, the Michigan Wolverines, in East Lansing this Sunday, it may be for their NCAA tournament lives.
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There won’t be any Matt Costello tongue wagging. There won’t be any Bryn Forbes three-pointers. And there won’t be any Denzel Valentine fast-break slams when Michigan State (12-9 OVR, 4-4 B1G) hosts in-state rival Michigan (14-7, 4-4 B1G) on Sunday afternoon (CBS, 1 p.m.). But there will be a plethora of inexperience for the Spartans—as well as hate, per usual.
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