College Basketball · Week 18 · Mar 3, 2020
Michigan State Spartans vs Penn State Nittany Lions basketball
One of the ten meetings in our records.
Spartans 79, Nittany Lions 71.
Every half's points, and the digit each one ended on.
| Team | H1 | H2 | Final |
|---|---|---|---|
| MSU | 31 | 48 | 79 |
| PSU | 46 | 25 | 71 |
| Winning digits | 1–6 | 9–1 |
Meeting six of ten.
The Michigan State Spartans still lead the series 8-2.
Six earlier meetings, 2013 to 2020, counted in the series record above. The Michigan State Spartans won five of those six.
The 0-5 pair occurred 2 times in 10 tracked meetings.
Each tracked meeting lands on one digit pair: the last digit of each team's final score. Across the 10 meetings our digit records cover, the finals landed on nine digit pairs, one of them two times.
Spartans final digit down the side, Nittany Lions across the top.
Two of the ten tracked meetings landed on this digit pair: Spartans scores ending in 0, Nittany Lions in 5. That's 20% 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.
2 and 5 are tied for most common: 2 of 6 finals each. Never landed: 0, 1, 3, 6, 7 and 8.