{"id":20556,"date":"2025-01-12T07:30:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T12:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=20556"},"modified":"2025-01-12T05:18:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T10:18:48","slug":"michigan-state-basketball-final-score-predictions-vs-northwestern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=20556","title":{"rendered":"Michigan State basketball: Final score predictions vs. Northwestern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a 34-point win on Thursday night to improve to 4-0 in Big Ten play, <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-basketball-3-quick-thoughts-on-blowout-win-over-washington\/\">Michigan State basketball<\/a> has an opportunity to add to its NCAA Tournament resume on Sunday afternoon with a win at Northwestern.<\/p>\n<p>The Wildcats are just 1-3 in conference play but they&#8217;re more dangerous than they look. They beat Illinois already and have lost to Penn State and Iowa on the road by a total of five points. This team is a couple of bounces away from being 12-3 on the year and 3-1 in conference action.<\/p>\n<p>Vegas thinks this game will be tight as it has Michigan State as a three-point favorite.<\/p>\n<p>What do our writers think about the big road battle for the Spartans on Sunday?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Connor Muldowney:<\/strong> This one feels like it should be a comfortable win for Michigan State but Northwestern has been a thorn in Tom Izzo&#8217;s side for about a decade-plus now. The Wildcats will keep this one close for 30 minutes before Michigan State surges late and closes the door. Michigan State wins 80-69.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maxwell Klitzke:<\/strong> Michigan State 79, Northwestern 64<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anthony Garvert:<\/strong> Michigan State 72, Northwestern 66<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brendon Pricco:<\/strong> Michigan State 67, Northwestern 71<\/p>\n<p><strong>DailyMSU:<\/strong> Michigan State 73, Northwestern 68<\/p>\n<p><strong>MSUMan:<\/strong> Michigan State is due for an off game but it has enough depth to pull it off. Northwestern starts desperately fouling and comes up short. Michigan State 79, Northwestern 78.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emmett Matasovsky:<\/strong> Michigan State 75, Northwestern 67<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Norman:<\/strong> Michigan State 78, Northwestern 69<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zack Theis:<\/strong> Michigan State 70, Northwestern 63<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, all but one of our writers believe that Michigan State basketball will improve to 5-0 in Big Ten play after a solid road win over Northwestern on Sunday.The Wildcats are going to put up a fight but Michigan State will be too much.<\/p>\n<p>Or should we listen to Vegas&#8217; warning and believe that this one will come down to the final minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s noon showdown in Evanston should be a good one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will MSU stay hot?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[59,190,189,504],"class_list":["post-20556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","tag-featured","tag-michigan-state-basketball","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20556","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}