The Michigan Wolverines and the Michigan State Spartans are matching up live on ESPN on Saturday night and the two teams will play their college basketball matchup at the Jack Breslin Student Events Center and the game starts up at 7 pm ET and will be streaming from the WatchESPN website and comes as Mich St. is ranked third in the nation with just one loss and they are on an 11-game winning streak.
The team comes in with an 18-1 record on the season and they are undefeated in Big Ten conference play so far this year in seven games and now they will have their first shot at their biggest rival. The team has three games against ranked teams in the next five matchups, including a visit to Iowa and a trip to Wisconsin and the team has Michigan and Iowa again later in the season before finishing the schedule against the Ohio State Buckeyes. The team comes into the game after a win against Indiana on Tuesday and they are looking at a game next against a ranked opponent in the Iowa Hawkeyes and they are number 10 in the nation.
The team is ranked 30th in the country in scoring this season with nearly 80 points per game and they have been solid shooting the ball at nearly 50 percent and they also are ranked fifth in the nation in assists. After playing against Michigan and Iowa the Spartans will have Georgetown in an anticipated matchup and then Penn State, the Badgers, Northwestern, Nebraska, Purdue and then again against Michigan. The Wolverines are coming into the game after a win against Iowa and they next play against Purdue after playing the Spartans and they have a very tough stretch coming later in thge season with four ranked opponents in a row on the schedule, with the Hawkeyes again, Ohio State, Wisconsin and then a second matchup with the Spartans, but that one will be in Ann Arbor.
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Nik Stauskas is having another very good season and he is leading the team in scoring with nearly 20 points per game and Michigan comes in scoring over 77 points per game. The Wolverines are ranked 20th in the nation in field goal percentage with 48 percent and they are 30th in the country in assists per game as well. The team is allowing under 65 points per game this season and it comes as Michigan is also undefeated in the conference with six wins. The two teams tied for the league title two years ago and now they will be battling it out on Saturday night.