A look at MSU's basketball game Saturday against Rutgers at Madison Square Garden – including matchup analysis, TV, the ...

On the court, Golden and the Gators are a national championship contender. They opened the season with 13 straight wins, then ...

The Michigan State Spartans narrowly defeated the Illinois Fighting Illini, 80-78, on Sunday. Since that game, Illinois fans have made quite the fuss about how ...

The Illini desperately missed their big man against Maryland, but there is no timeline yet for Ivisic's return ...

The top teams remain the same in the Big Ten. The most likely conference champions haven't changed. But that doesn't mean Illinois beat writer Scott Richey didn't have to shuffle the vast middle of ...

Tom Izzo watched Michigan State gut out an 80-78 win Sunday over then-No. 19 Illinois and declared the Fighting Illini the best team in the Big Ten. "I'm not slighting us, I'm not slighting Purdue, ...

The team sits at 15-4 (5-3 Big Ten) overall, led by an 11-0 record against Quad 2, 3 and 4 opponents. It currently sits No. 21 in KenPom, No. 24 in the ESPN BPI and No. 22 in the NCAA NET Rankings.

After a close and tough loss to Michigan State on Sunday, teh University of Illinois men's basketball team is back at home and it doesn't get any easier. "You come off of East Lansing and Michigan ...

Illinois beat writer and AP Top 25 voter Joe Vozzelli sizes up the 18-team league as conference play nears the halfway point ...

Scott Richey covers college basketball for The News-Gazette. His email is [email protected], and you can follow him on Twitter ( @srrichey ).

EAST LANSING – Michigan State beat a team with a potential top-five pick in this year’s NBA draft in its last game. There will be two who fit that description on the other bench in the next outing.

Julian Reese had 27 points and 17 rebounds and Derik Queen scored 25 points to lead Maryland to a 91-70 victory over No. 17 ...