Michigan State Basketball vs Tipoff of Minnesota: match analysis and prediction

• What: Michigan State vs. Minnesota

• When: 8 p.m. Tuesday

• Or: Breslin center

• TV / Radio: Streaming on Peacock / Spartan Sports Network radio, including Wjim 1240-AM and WMMQ 94.9-FM; Siriusxm ch. 85 (Msu Broadcast), 387 (Minnesota Broadcast)

• Records / rankings: MSU has a file of 17-2 in total, 8-0 in the Big Ten and ranked n ° 7 in the coach survey and in the Associated Press survey, and is n ° 15 by the analysis site of the analysis site Kenpom.com university basketball. Minnesota has a file of 11-9 in total, 3-6 in Big Ten and not classified in the polls. Gophers are n ° 91 nationally, by Kenpom.

• Paris line: MSU -13

• Coaches: Michigan state -Tom Izzo has 724-297 in his 30th season as a chief coach, all with the Spartans. Minnesota – Ben Johnson has 52-63 in his fourth season as a college chief coach, all with the gophers.

• Series: MSU leads 67-59 all time. MSU won the first meeting this season, 90-72, on December 4 in Minneapolis.

Projected lines

Msu

C (10) Szymon Lights (7-0) 5.6

F (0) Jaxon Kohler (6-9) 7.6

G (3) Jaden Akins (6-4) 13.8

G (5) Three Holloman (6-2) 8.1

PG (1) Jeremy fears Jr. (6-2) 7.7

Minnesota

F (3) Dawson Garcia (6-11) 19.7

F (11) FEMI ODUKALE (6-6) 6.3

G (24) Brennan Rigsby (6-3) 5.0

G (25) Lu’cye Patterson (6-2) 10.9

G (2) Mike Mitchell (6-2) 11.5

• MSU update: Spartans have a two-game advance at the top of the Big Ten in the loss column after the 81-74 on Saturday victory against Rutgers at Madison Square Garden, their 12th consecutive victory in total. MSU is at the top of Big Ten in a certain number of championship categories – offensive and defensive efficiency, by Ken Pom, percentage of offensive rebounds, 3 -point defense (26.5% authorized), block rate and percentage of throwing francs (83.4%). MSU also conducted the conference by match in the championship matches (83.6), the points differential (15.0) and the assists (19.6).

After Tuesday evening’s match, MSU played two games in Los Angeles – Saturday afternoon at the USC and next Tuesday evening at the UCLA. Like this Tuesday match against Minnesota, the two games of the are only available at the watch on Peacock. Ditto for the next MSU matches against Indiana on February 11 and purdue on February 18. You can subscribe to the peacock vapor service for $ 7.99 for a month, which would cover the next five MSU games.

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• Update of Minnesota: Gophers are not yet cooked. In fact, they are surprisingly red after a 0-6 start for the Big Ten game, after winning three consecutive games – against Michigan, Iowa and Oregon. Wolverines and Ducks are two of the best Big Ten teams. Minnesota had played better just before this last sequence, notable, in a loss of narrow road in Maryland. The big senior man Dawson Garcia brought his game to another level recently, with 27 points, 12 rebounds and four assists against Michigan, then 31 points and three shots blocked in victory against Oregon on Saturday. At 20.7 points per match, Garcia is the second top scorer of the Big Ten in the championship matches.

• Correspondence analysis: It is impressive that Minnesota does not collapse after a start of 0-6. It did not look like a team of gophers with great hope the first time that the Spartans played them. They featured Dawson Garcia more now and he looks motivated and was huge. During the first meeting with MSU, Garcia had 18 points, but settled and missed a ton of 3s, going 1 for 8 beyond the arc. Jaxon Kohler was the main game of Garcia the first time and played very well at both ends and on the glass. The big difference between the gophers then enters and now is the main goalkeeper Mike Mitchell, who was in his first return match of an injury in the last meeting, and even if he hit five 3, he was not The catalyst he recently, including 10 assists and a turnover against Oregon. The improvement of players like Wing Femi Odukale has also contributed to shooting the Gophers season in a different direction. MSU left him from the match in December. Odukale collected 18 points, seven rebounds and four assists against Iowa, although MSU has more difficult defensive clashes for him.

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• Prediction: I think Minnesota is a better and more grumpy basketball team than it was in December or even three weeks ago. I think Ben Johnson has done a good job by preventing this season from leaving the rails. Gophers have not finished winning big ten matches. But it is difficult to see that it is one of them. MSU has too many counters defensively for the best minnesota players and too much rhythm and fire power offensively.

• Do it: MSU 83, Minnesota 67

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