College Basketball
Michigan State Spartans basketball
Across 256 Spartans basketball games in our records, see how results change by season, which opponents appear most often, and which final-score digits are most common.
Season-by-season results
The Michigan State Spartans finished above .500 in twelve of the thirteen seasons in our records, with 2016 missing.
Each row shows the season's record, its result sequence (green is a win, red is a loss), and points per game, newest first.
2022 14-9 23 of their games 72.2 Pts/game
2021 10-9 19 of their games 73.0 Pts/game
2020 17-6 23 of their games 75.0 Pts/game
2019 25-5 30 of their games 76.8 Pts/game
2018 22-3 25 of their games 80.6 Pts/game
Game records begin in 2014; final-score digit tracking begins with the 2026 season. Nothing from 2016.
Final-score digit patterns
1 is the Michigan State Spartans' most common final digit: 7 of 37 finals, with no clear separation.
Each tracked final contributes one digit: the last digit of the team's score. Across the 37 finals our digit records cover, 1 leads with 7, and nothing else gets close enough to call it a habit.
1
5 0
7 of 37 finals
13 2
3 3
4 4
1 5
6 6
2 7
2 8
4 9
Drawn from 2026–27, the two seasons our digit records cover, 37 games.
Opponent records 
Badgers 8-9 
Fighting Illini 10-5 
Wolverines 7-7 
Boilermakers 6-8 
Wildcats 9-3 
Hoosiers 8-4 
Buckeyes 8-4 
Scarlet Knights 10-1
The Wisconsin Badgers are the Michigan State Spartans' most-played opponent: 17 meetings in our records.
The table covers 82 opponents since 2014, ordered by meetings. Each bar shows the Michigan State Spartans' win rate in that series; each row opens the full head-to-head.
Badgers 8-9 Fighting Illini 10-5 Wolverines 7-7 Boilermakers 6-8 Wildcats 9-3 Hoosiers 8-4 Buckeyes 8-4 Scarlet Knights 10-1 Seventy-four more opponents in our records. Every series has a head-to-head page, however short it runs.
This week
They play Tuesday.
Week 2 Spartans at Duke Blue Devils
Tue, Nov 10 · 4:00 PM PST
Spartans at Duke Blue Devils Tue, Nov 10 · 4:00 PM PST