{"id":2054,"date":"2023-03-22T14:50:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T18:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2023-03-22T14:50:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T18:50:33","slug":"michigan-state-basketball-sweet-16-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=2054","title":{"rendered":"Michigan State Basketball: Sweet 16 facts to know about"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>After getting the job done in the Round of 32, Michigan State basketball will go head-to-head against Kansas State for the program&#8217;s 21st Sweet 16 appearance.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-basketball-scouting-kansas-state\/\">Michigan State basketball<\/a> defeated the Marquette Golden Eagles 69-60 on Sunday night to advance to the Sweet 16, their first since 2019. After securing a record 15th Sweet 16 for Tom Izzo, the Spartans will face the Kansas State Wildcats on Thursday, March 23, at 6:30 p.m. ET at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>While neither Michigan State nor Kansas State were projected to advance this far, both have defied the naysayers and one will continue their postseason journey into the Elite Eight.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some Sweet 16 facts revolving around the Michigan State Spartans and their opponents, Kansas State Wildcats.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Only 19 percent of 7-seeds reach the Sweet 16.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a 43 percent chance not a single 7-seed advances past the Round of 32.<\/li>\n<li>Since 2005, only four times has a 7-seed made it past their Sweet 16 matchup and into the Elite Eight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li>2012 &#8212; Florida Gators (7) vs. Marquette Golden Eagles (3): Marquette -2<\/li>\n<li>2014 &#8212; UConn Huskies (7) vs. Iowa State Cyclones (3): Iowa State -1<\/li>\n<li>2015 &#8212; Michigan State Spartans (7) vs. Oklahoma Sooners (3): Michigan State-2<\/li>\n<li>2017 &#8212; South Carolina Gamecocks (7) vs. Baylor Bears (3): Baylor -3<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>In only one of those four matchups was the 7-seed favored over their opponent, Michigan State (-2) vs Oklahoma in 2015. Michigan State is currently favored over Kansas State by two.<\/li>\n<li>Lower-seeded teams favored in the Sweet 16 are 11-12 outright and 9-14 ATS since 1985.<\/li>\n<li>Tom Izzo is 6-3 against the spread and 8-1 outright as favorites in the Sweet 16.<\/li>\n<li>Kansas State is 3-0 all-time in Sweet 16 appearances.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Michigan State has a history of making it to the Sweet 16 as a 7-seed and it did so in 2015 as Travis Trice and Denzel Valentine led the way. They beat a 2-seed in Virginia in the second round and went on to beat 3-seeded Oklahoma in the Sweet 16 and then 4-seeded Louisville in the Elite Eight.<\/p>\n<p>The similarities between that run and this year&#8217;s run are wild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some relevant facts to know about the Sweet 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[59,190,189],"class_list":["post-2054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","tag-featured","tag-michigan-state-basketball","tag-michigan-state-spartans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}