{"id":5088,"date":"2023-06-16T18:30:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T22:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=5088"},"modified":"2023-06-16T23:46:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T03:46:35","slug":"michigan-state-basketball-had-10th-most-watch-game-of-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=5088","title":{"rendered":"Michigan State basketball had 10th most-watched game of 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Michigan State basketball had a top-10 most-watched college or NBA game of 2023, according to one report. Which game made the list?<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-basketball-reaches-out-5-star-pf-koa-peat\/\">Michigan State basketball<\/a> season didn&#8217;t end the way fans would have liked, but there were some memorable games along the way.<\/p>\n<p>The Spartans took down No. 2 seed Marquette in the second round and nearly upended No. 3 seed Kansas State in the Sweet 16. If the Spartans had made it to the Elite Eight, there&#8217;s just no telling how far they would have gone in a very winnable field.<\/p>\n<p>Although fans clearly didn&#8217;t enjoy seeing Markquis Nowell almost single-handedly break the Spartan defense, the game prior was a classic and actually happened to be one of the most-watched basketball games of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>College Basketball Report posted the top 10 most-watched games of 2023 on Twitter, both college and NBA, and Michigan State made the cut at No. 10.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The 10 most watched basketball games of 2023\ud83c\udfc0 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F3XygJzn3V\">pic.twitter.com\/F3XygJzn3V<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; College Basketball Report (@CBKReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBKReport\/status\/1669799237423341595?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Whenever you hear someone say that Michigan State is not a national brand, show them this. I don&#8217;t see Duke, Kansas, UCLA, or Kentucky on there. The Spartans had the 10th-highest viewership of any basketball game in 2023 for a second-round NCAA Tournament matchup. Just think about that for a second.<\/p>\n<p>Insane.<\/p>\n<p>There were only five college basketball games on the list and Michigan State was one of them. Not even the Sweet 16 matchup against Kansas State but a second-round battle for a chance to go to the second weekend.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s crazy to think that Michigan State was just behind Game 3 of the NBA Finals and higher than all but four college basketball games in 2023. That brand is bigger than people really think.<\/p>\n<p>That Marquette vs. Michigan State basketball game will always be remembered by Spartan fans because of the nature of the upset. No one gave Michigan State a shot to take down what some believed to be the &#8220;best No. 2 seed&#8221; in the NCAA Tournament but it did so and controlled the entire game.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d be willing to bet Michigan State is on this list again next year, at least once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spartan fans show up big-time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[59,190,189],"class_list":["post-5088","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\/5088","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=5088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}