College Basketball · Head-to-head
Michigan State Spartans vs Northwestern Wildcats basketball
The Michigan State Spartans and Northwestern Wildcats have met 12 times in our college basketball records, and the Michigan State Spartans lead 9-3. See every recorded result and final-score digit pair.
12 recorded meetings from 2014 through 2026.
Results are listed newest first with the winner, score, date, and final digit pair when available; Spartans digit first.
Six earlier meetings, 2014 to 2020, counted in the series record above. The Michigan State Spartans won all six.
The 5-0 pair occurred 2 times in 12 tracked meetings.
Each tracked meeting lands on one digit pair: the last digit of each team's final score. Across the 12 meetings our digit records cover, the finals landed on eleven digit pairs, one of them two times.
Spartans final digit down the side, Wildcats across the top.
Two of the twelve tracked meetings landed on this digit pair: Spartans scores ending in 5, Wildcats in 0. That's 17% 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.
35 finals tracked; no final digit stands out.
6 and 8 are tied for most common: 2 of 7 finals each. Never landed: 0, 1, 2, 3 and 7.