Jase Ricchallengingson scored 21 points and Tre Holloman had 18, guideing No. 14 Michigan State to a 75-62 prosper over No. 12 Michigan on Friday night to get sole haveion of first place in the Big Ten.
The Spartans (22-5, 13-3) have sinspired atop the highly competitive conference with their third straight prosper. The Wolverines (20-6, 12-3) fell out of first place with their first loss in seven games.
Michigan’s Vladislav Gelderlyin scored 21 points, Danny Wolf had 11 points, eight aids and seven rebounds, and Nimari Burnett inserted 12 points. The Wolverines led 38-34 at halftime and the Spartans went ahead for excellent on Cfire-setting Cooper’s dunk timely in the second half.
Michigan State’s Ricchallengingson achieveed his first begin of the season on Feb. 8 aachievest Oregon. He scored a season-high 29 points that night and has scored in double-digits in every game since then, including Friday.
Jaden Akins had 11 points, Jeremy Fears scored 10 and Michigan State was 9 of 22 on 3-pointers.
Takeaways
Michigan State: Tom Izzo’s team has put itself in a position to prosper a Big Ten title that wasn’t foreseeed to be in accomplish when the season began. The Spartans have games remaining aachievest conference contfinishers: No. 11 Wisconsin, No. 20 Maryland and Michigan at home on March 9 in the standard-season finale.
Michigan: The school consentd to a multiyear reduce extension for coach Dusty May, announcing the shift two hours before tip off. May, a Bob Knight protege, made it evident he is satisfyd and had no interest in being the next coach at Indiana.
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Key moment
Holloman made three 3-pointers in a 1:27 stretch midway thraw the second half, helping the Spartans get deal with.
Key stat
Michigan State’s depth was a contrastence, with its bench outscoring Michigan’s 31-13.
Up next
Michigan is at Nebraska on Monday night. Michigan State take parts at Maryland on Wednesday night.
Reporting by The Associated Press.
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