EAST LANSING, Mich. — The toughest part of Michigan State’s regular season schedule seems to be the very end.
MSU, ranked 13th in the country, has not played a top-10 team in a true road environment yet this season. It didn’t happen all of last season, either. The Spartans are now going to do it two times in their final four games before the postseason begins, starting with No. 8 Purdue on Thursday (8 p.m. ET, Peacock/NBCSN) and then finishing the regular season out at current No. 3 Michigan on Sunday, March 8.
“Our schedule ends about as tough as anybody’s,” head coach Tom Izzo said Tuesday afternoon. “We have two big road games this week [against Purdue and Indiana]. Obviously, it starts with Purdue, one of the best teams, not only in the league, but in the country, and winning on the road there [in Mackey Arena] is one of the more difficult places to play.”
It’s best some time since Michigan State entered West Lafayette, Ind., and left in a good mood. The Spartans have lost seven straight games to Purdue there, with the most recent win coming in February 2014. The losing streak in the building is technically eight, since MSU also lost an NCAA Tournament game to UCLA in 2021 there during the First Four round.
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