{"id":11860,"date":"2024-01-13T14:31:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T19:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=11860"},"modified":"2024-01-13T14:31:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T19:31:09","slug":"michigan-state-basketball-series-history-vs-rutgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=11860","title":{"rendered":"Michigan State basketball: Series history vs. Rutgers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michigan State basketball and Rutgers haven’t had a ton of matchups, but the series has been dominated by the Scarlet Knights recently.<\/h2>\n

Michigan State basketball<\/a> returns home for a noon game against Rutgers on Sunday. The two-game road trip wasn\u2019t kind to the Spartans and ended with a 71-68 defeat to Illinois<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Michigan State has a good chance to get its season back on track against Rutgers, a team that has been struggling this season.<\/p>\n

Before the game tips off, let\u2019s take a look at the series history between these two programs.<\/p>\n

MSU leads the short series<\/h3>\n

With Rutgers joining the Big Ten in 2014, you can imagine these teams haven\u2019t played very much. The Spartans and Scarlet Knights have played 15 times in their history, with MSU holding a 12-3 edge in those matchups. This includes an 11-3 record in the 14 games they\u2019ve played as conference foes.<\/p>\n

Michigan State was dominant in this matchup when Rutgers first joined the Big Ten, winning the first 10 matchups as Big Ten opponents. When you add the one time they met as non-conference opponents, MSU started this series 11-0.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s changed fast in recent years as Rutgers has won three of the last four meetings. This includes the last matchup when Rutgers beat MSU at Madison Square Garden 61-55. Michigan State did win the first matchup last season at home 70-57. This game was the \u201cJaxon Kohler<\/a> game\u201d that saw him record his first career double-double against a ranked Rutgers team. Could we see something similar from him this time?<\/p>\n

Rutgers season update<\/h3>\n

The Scarlet Knights haven\u2019t been having a great season so far this year. They come into this game with a 9-6 (1-3) record. Their lone Big Ten win came against an average Indiana team at home, 66-57. The Knights have also not been very strong away from home this season either. They are 1-5 in games away from home including a 1-3 record in true road games.<\/p>\n

Michigan State needs this one badly. Their NCAA Tournament streak will be in jeopardy if the Spartans don\u2019t beat the Knights, so this game has more meaning than it typically would in years past. If the Spartans play the way we know they can, they should be pretty happy on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Scarlet Knights have won 3-of-4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":11935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[190,189,504],"class_list":["post-11860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","tag-michigan-state-basketball","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}