The Spartans played lockdown defense and got a huge day from their bench to beat Rutgers at Madison Square Garden.

A pair of hot teams hit the court when the Michigan State Spartans (17-2, 8-0 Big Ten) host the Minnesota Golden Gophers (11-9, 3-6 Big Ten) on Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM ET. The

Michigan State hockey earned breathing room in its attempt to repeat as the Big Ten champion. The No. 2 Spartans followed a 9-3 win on Friday night with a shootout victory to cap a 3-3 tie against No.

Junior forwards Isaac Howard and Daniel Russell scored in the shootout to give MSU the extra point in the Big Ten standings after tying in regulation.

No. 8 Michigan State will put its 11-game winning streak on the line Saturday, when it faces a supremely talented Rutgers team in a Big Ten battle at Madison Square Garden. The Spartans' surge dates back to a Nov.

No. 8 Michigan State extended its winning streak to 12 games and improved to 8-0 in Big Ten play with an 81-74 win over Rutgers inside Madison Square Garden on Saturday afternoon. The Spartans' tied Duke for the longest active winning streak in the sport with the win and guaranteed it would reach two months since its last loss on the season.

Freshman guard Jase Richardson scored a career-high 20 points and No. 8 Michigan State rolled to its 12th consecutive victory, beating Rutgers 81-74 at Madison Square Garden.

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It was a much better effort from the fourth-ranked Gophers men's hockey team and it'll officially go down as a 3-3 tie with No. 2 Michigan State. But it was the Spartans who picked up the extra point in a shootout Saturday in East Lansing, Mich.

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