College Basketball · Head-to-head
Illinois Fighting Illini vs Michigan State Spartans basketball
The Illinois Fighting Illini and Michigan State Spartans have met 15 times in our college basketball records, and the Michigan State Spartans lead 10-5. See every recorded result and final-score digit pair.
15 recorded meetings from 2014 through 2026.
Results are listed newest first with the winner, score, date, and final digit pair when available; Illinois digit first.
Nine earlier meetings, 2014 to 2022, counted in the series record above. The Michigan State Spartans won six of those nine.
The 9-4 pair occurred 2 times in 15 tracked meetings.
Each tracked meeting lands on one digit pair: the last digit of each team's final score. Across the 15 meetings our digit records cover, the finals landed on fourteen digit pairs, one of them two times.
Illinois final digit down the side, Spartans across the top.
Two of the fifteen tracked meetings landed on this digit pair: Illinois scores ending in 9, Spartans in 4. That's 13% of them, on one digit pair out of a hundred.
Each team's final digits, both from 2026.
The last digit of every final score, 0 through 9, from each side's 2026 season, the latest our digit records cover.
1 is their most common final digit: 7 of 37 finals, with no clear separation.
35 finals tracked; no final digit stands out.