Seeing an emotional summit to deliver to Tom Izzo a significant victory on the road, Michigan State Basketball takes place in a pair of events classified with the other best Big Ten teams.
And a confused mixture in The USA TODAY coaches survey of this week.
The Spartans abandoned two places in n ° 13 after dividing a pair of matches last week with Indiana and Illinois.
MSU (20-5, 11-3) is in second place in the Big Ten ranking, a match behind Michigan’s first place, which survived Ohio State on the road on Sunday. Spartans and classified Wolverines of the 12th (20-5, 12-2) meet at 8 p.m. Friday at the Ann Arbor Crown Center. UM jumped five places in this week’s survey.
First of all, however, the Izzo team welcomed the No. 14 Purdue at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Breslin Center in East Lansing. The boilermakers (19-7, 11-4) fell seven places in the ranking after a home defeat of 94-84 against n ° 11 of Wisconsin on Saturday and a defeat from 75-73 to UM last Tuesday. The badgers jumped four places in this week’s survey to give Big Ten a four -team cluster in the middle.
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MSU abandoned his last home game last Tuesday in Indiana, 71-64, but rebounded with a victory for 16 points on Saturday evening in Illinois, 79-65. This gave Izzo his 354th career conference victorymost in the history of Big Ten.
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This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Michigan State Basketball n ° 13 in the USA TODAY coaches of this week
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