To quote Tennessee’s web site, “the sixth-ranked Volunteers seek a measure of revenge against the Buckeyes on Saturday in Knoxville.”

Ah, but what a difference a year makes. Ohio State returns just one starter from last season’s team, while Tennessee brings back six of their top scorers, plus Iowa transfer Tyler Smith.

Thad Matta’s Buckeyes enter the nauseatingly orange-colored home of the Volunteers as Ohio State takes on Tennessee. Tip-off at Thompson-Boling Arena is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. ET, and it will be televised on CBS (locally on WBNS-10TV in Columbus) with Ian Eagle and former Buckeye Clark Kellogg calling the action.

As always, “Big Daddy” Paul Keels and former Buckeye baller Ron Stokes handle the duties on the OSU Radio Network, with 59 affiliates across Buckeyeland including WBNS-AM 1460 the Fan, and WBNS-FM Mix 97.1.

Four players average in double figures from Bruce Pearl’s Volunteers. Leading the way is 6-foot-2 senior guard JaJuan Smith, who pours in 14.8 points per game.

Tied for second on the team in scoring is 6-foot-2 senior guard Chris Lofton, and 6-foot-7 sophomore forward Smith, who sat out last year after transferring from Iowa. Both average 13.4 points per outing.

Lofton is the reigning SEC Player of the Year after averaging 20.8 points per game, last season.

Tennessee’s top rebounder and fourth-leading scorer is 6-foot-9 sophomore forward Wayne Chism (9.1 ppg, 5.9 rpg).

Rounding out the starting five is 6-foot-3 senior guard Jordan Howell (7.2 ppg).

Tennessee is riding a 10-game winning streak. The only loss on the Volunteers ledger is a 97-78 setback at then-No. 15 Texas on Nov. 24.

On Thursday, Chism scored 18 points and had a career-high 18 rebounds to led No. 6 Tennessee to an 80-60 win over 16th-ranked Vanderbilt. Tyler Smith and JaJuan Smith both finished with 14 points and Lofton added 11 for the Vols.

Ohio State enters today’s game riding a two-game losing skid, dropping a 66-60 decision at Michigan State on Tuesday. The Buckeyes trailed by as many as 21 points, but rallied to within three after halftime only to come up short.

“We have a lot of pride. These guys will never give up,” said Jamar Butler, who had 21 points. “We’ll keep battling, regardless of the score.”

Ohio State is 4-0 all-time against Tennessee and 27-25 overall against Southeastern Conference opponents. These two schools met on the hardwood twice last season, with the Buckeyes prevailing both times, including an 85-84 win by OSU in the South Regional semifinals in San Antonio, last March.

In that NCAA tournament game, the top-seeded Buckeyes spotted fifth-seeded Tennessee a 17-point halftime lead before rallying to defeat the Volunteers at The Alamodome.

Ohio State trailed by as many as 20 points with just fractions of a second left before intermission when David Lighty scored on a three-point play trimmed the Vols’ lead down to 49-32 at intermission. Then the Buckeyes scored 12 of the game’s first 14 points to start the second stanza.

Ron Lewis scored 18 of his game-high 25 points in the second half, and Mike Conley made one of his two free throw attempts with 6.5 seconds left to give the Buckeyes a one-point lead before Greg Oden was able to swat away Ramar Smith’s driving runner as time expired.

Last January, with the Buckeyes trailing by a point, Lewis drained a three-pointer from the top of the key with 11.2 seconds left to lead then fifth-ranked Ohio State to a 68-66 win over then 16th-ranked Tennessee.

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When I posted a photo of Scoonie Penn yesterday, someone later asked me what he was up to, which I replied, “good question.”

After doing some research, I found that Scoonie is playing on the Turkish Basketball League team, Efes Pilsen S.K., and is averaging 5.5 points, 4.5 rebounds, and 3.8 assists per game through 13 contests.

Penn, a 5-foot-10 point guard, was named the 1999 Big Ten Conference Player of the Year during his junior campaign after averaging 16.9 points per game, helping the Buckeyes advance to the Final Four that season, which has since been vacated.

Then I came up with a great idea, why not find out where all of the former Buckeyes are playing.

Well, there are just four former Buckeyes on active NBA rosters, including Penn’s former backcourt mate, Michael Redd.

Redd, a 6-foot-6 shooting guard, who is in his seventh year for Milwaukee after being selected in the second round (43rd overall) of the 2000 NBA Draft, is averaging 22.8 points per game for the Bucks this season.

During his days at Ohio State, Redd was named Honorable Mention All-America as a junior and sophomore. He ranked fifth at Ohio State in career field goals made (699), fifth in career points (1,879) and seventh in steals (149) when he left after his junior year.

Three other players in the NBA from Ohio State played for the Buckeyes last season for head coach Thad Matta, including Greg Oden of the Portland Trail Blazers, Mike Conley with the Memphis Grizzlies, and the Miami Heat’s Daequan Cook.

But I found that there are several former Ohio State players playing overseas. Now when looking up stats on each player, you’ll have to understand that out of all of the web sites I visited, most were in their native languages. While some I understand, some are very foreign to me, so I did the best to translate them. Plus, Europeans have a very different way of putting together their stats. But here it goes:

Recently signed to play for the Deutsche Bank Skyliners based in Frankfort, and one of 18 teams in the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL), the premiere league in Germany, is 6-foot-11 center Ken Johnson. He’s averaging 7.5 points and 4.0 rebounds per game.

Johnson, who was a First-Team, All-Big Ten selection and was named to the NABC District 10 First-Team after his senior season in 2001, ranks fourth all-time in NCAA history with 444 blocked shots, which is also leads the Big Ten, and tis he highest total in Ohio State history. He also earned Honorable Mention All-American by the Associated Press. As a senior, Johnson averaged 12.5 points, 7.3 rebounds, and 4.0 blocks per game.

Suiting up for Stade Clermontois Basket Auvergne in France’s Ligue Nationale de Basket (Pro-A League) is 7-foot center Velimir Radinovic. He’s averaging 6.5 points per game through 14 contests.

During the 2003-04 season as a senior, Radinovic averaged 10.2 points and 6.2 rebounds per game for the Buckeyes.

George Reese, a 6-foot-7 forward, is playing for AZS Koszalin in Poland and is averaging 8.5 points per through eight games.

Starting for Germany’s Eisbären Bremerhaven, which is also in Basketball Bundesliga (BBL), is 6-foot-3 guard Brian Brown, who pouring in 11.3 points and dishing out 4.6 assists per game.

Brown finished four-year career at Ohio State ranked second in school history in career games played (129), seventh in career assists (374), tied for eighth in career three-pointers made (107), and 20th in total points (1,384).

As a senior during the 2001-02 season, Brown started all 32 games for Ohio State and was voted First-Team, All-Big Ten by both the coaches and media after averaging 16.3 points per game.

Brent Darby, a 6-foot-1 guard, is hooping it up for Banco di Sardegna Sassari in Italy’s Lega2 and is averaging 15.9 points per game.

Not playing in Europe, but in Mexico’s Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional (LNBP) is 6-foot-1 guard Tony “Antoine” Stockman, who is averaging 22.7 points per contest for Venados de Nuevo Laredo.

After playing two season at Clemson, the 2000 Co-Mr. Basketball in the state of Ohio transferred and played for Buckeyes during the 2003-04 and 2004-05 seasons. As a junior, Stockman averaged 13.6 points per game for former head coach Jim O’Brien, but saw his playing time reduced as a senior when Thad Matta took over. He averaged 12.0 points per contest during the ’04-’05 campaign.

The 2006 Big Ten Player of the Year, Terence Dials, a 6-foot-9 power forward/center, is averaging 10.2 points per contest for Pau-Orthez in the Pro-A division in France.

Dials averaged 15.6 points and 8.0 rebounds during his senior year for the Buckeyes and was a four-year starter at Ohio State

Je’Kel Foster, a 6-foot-3 guard, is playing for Paris-Levallois and chipping in 15.1 points per outing in France’s Pro-A league.

Foster averaged 12.2 points for the Buckeyes during his senior campaign of 2005-06, leading Ohio State to the Big Ten regular season title.

Ron Lewis, a 6-foot-4 guard, who hit the memorable three-point shot in the second round of the NCAA tournament against Xavier with just seconds left to send the game into overtime, is now averaging 16.4 points per game for Spotter Leuven in Belgian’s Division 1, which is good for seventh-best in the league.

Lewis, who played at Brookhaven High School in Columbus, started his college career at Bowling Green before transferring to Ohio State. He averaged 12.7 points per game as a senior last year.

Lewis, who was not picked in the 2007 NBA Draft, did get a good look from the Houston Rockets when he played for their summer league team in Las Vegas.

You will find 6-foot-7 forward Ivan Harris playing for Lappeenrannan NMKY, one of the 12 teams in the Finnish Basketball Association’s Korisliiga, the top league of basketball in Finland. He’s averaging 12.8 points per game.

Harris, a one of four former McDonald’s All-Americans to suit up for the Buckeyes last season, averaged 7.3 points and 3.2 rebounds as a senior.

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For nearly 24 minutes, Ohio State outscored Michigan State, 49-34. But the problem was, the Spartans claimed a 32-11 advantage during the first 16 minutes to begin the game, a lead that proved to be insurmountable.

You can blame it on youth and inexperienced as the young Bucks’ did their best impersonation of “deer in headlights” for most of the first half in front of a raucous crowd at the Breslin Center, with the Spartans prevailing 66-60.

With only three upperclassmen of the nine that played last night, it was the two seniors from northwestern Ohio who stepped up their game.

Once again it was “The Jamar Butler Show” as the senior point guard scored 21 points with no other Buckeye in double figures.

Three scarlet-clad players notched eight points each, including senior reserve forward Matt Terwilliger. What does that say about the rest of the team when Terwilliger is one of your second-leading scorers? By the way, OSU was undefeated in 27 games when Terwilliger scored four or more points. Now the Buckeyes are 27-1 when he does.

Hunter and sophomore guard David Lighty are the other two who added a snowman in the scorebook.

Kosta Koufos was non-existent, scoring just four points, as the Spartans got physical with him inside. What does it say about Koufos when you can only score four against post players like Goran Suton and Drew Naymick? These two combined aren’t as good as say, Indiana’s D.J. White. I’m sure Koufos will enjoy suiting up with B.J. Mullens next season when he can play more facing the basket.

In the first 16-plus minutes of the first half, the Buckeyes were just 5-for-21 from the field, including 0 of 6 from beyond the arc, and committed six turnovers.

In the final three minutes and 54 seconds after a media timeout, Ohio State was 4-for-6 from the floor, knocked down their first triple of the half, committed just one turnover en route to trimming Michigan State’s lead to 34-21 at halftime.

I’m not sure what Ohio State head coach Thad Matta said in the huddle, but it worked. Or did Michigan State just run out of gas or emotion?

It took the Buckeyes three-and-a-half minutes into the second half to make it a one possession game when Evan Turner drained a 15-footer with 16:32 left to play with MSU’s leading 37-34.

Unfortunately, that would be a close as the Buckeyes could get.

With 9:49 remaining, Hunter scored on a short jumper along the baseline when his entire body was behind the backboard, narrowing the Spartans lead to 49-45.

With 2:57 left, Butler drained a deep three that made it a two-possession game at 62-56.

Following a 20-second timeout by Michigan State, the Buckeyes forced a turnover when P.J. Hill swiped the ball from Suton, but he missed layup with 2:13 left.

The rest of the game it was about Ohio State not getting a rebound when needed and Michigan State making the free throws they had to, keeping the Buckeyes at bay.

Clearly, the final score is not really indicative. The Buckeyes could of been blown out of the building, but they regrouped and made it a game during the second half. And while there might not be moral victories, they outplayed a ranked team in their own gym for 24 minutes.

I am going on the record, too, as saying Michigan State is overrated. I wasn’t impressed by the Spartans. The Buckeyes held their leading scorer, Raymar Morgan, who was averaging more than 17 points a game to just six.

Drew Neitzel, who was named the preseason Big Ten player of the year, wasn’t that special, either. He had 13 points and five assists, though he’s not even the best point guard in the conference. That honor should go to Butler, who had seven assists to go along with those 21 points.

The one thing that Michigan State was able to do was to attack Ohio State’s zone in the middle, getting the ball in the high post as Naymick scored 11, going 5-for-6 from the floor. The Buckeyes were so concerned with the perimeter that left the a gaping hole near the foul line.

Even after the poor start, Ohio State shot 40.7 percent (22-for-54) from the field, but was just 6 of 22 (27.3%) from beyond the arc. Michigan State actually fared worse, shooting just 37.9 percent (25-for-66) from the floor, but were slightly better than the Buckeyes from three-point range (7-for-19).

While outsiders were able to scrutinized Ohio State’s supposedly soft schedule in football, no one can say that for the basketball team as Matta’s cagers are set to face sixth-ranked Tennessee, Saturday afternoon. Tip-off at Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville is set for 3:30 p.m. ET, and it will be televised on CBS.

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So University of Georgia president Michael Adams wants a playoff? Even though his team didn’t even advance to the SEC Championship game by not winning its division, it seems that he feels his school was slighted.

Adams announced his proposal for an eight-team playoff for the Football Bowl Subdivision using the BCS games following years of opposition to a playoff. He unveiled his proposal on Jan. 8, hours after LSU won the BCS national championship game.

His playoff proposal used the Sugar, Orange, Rose and Fiesta bowls as the opening round, leading to semifinals and a championship game. Adams said he believes the study will result in additional tweaking to the BCS system.

Adams met with James Barker, chairman of the NCAA Division I board of directors, and other board members in Nashville on Wednesday.

Barker, who is no relation to me, stated that his governing body does not anticipate on making any major decisions involving college football, yielding to the BCS.

“I don’t think that there’s a desire on the part of the board to do anything other than what the structure currently in place would yield,” Barker said in an AP report. “We don’t have that preconception.”

The 11 Bowl Subdivision commissioners who make up the BCS will meet in April in Miami and are expected to discuss the so-called plus-one format, which would create a four-team playoff.

Which is what I thought the whole idea of having a BCS National Championship game, to be played a week after the BCS bowls, was all about? Eight teams, not 10.

Here’s my plan for an eight-team playoff, using the 2008 calendar:

A uniform 12-week schedule for all Division I-A (FBS) members that runs from August 30-November 15.

On Saturday, November 22, the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Southeastern Conference, and the Big XII Conference championship games would be held.

On Sunday, November 23, the final BCS standings are released. The top eight teams advance, with the higher seed being the home team.

Using the final BCS standings for the 2007 season, this is how the pairings would look like:

November 29, the quarterfinal games will be play on campus sites as listed above.

December 6, the semifinals at campus sites. The two winners would advance to the BCS National Championship game in January. Also note that I feel this game should rotate across the country at various venues that have also hosted, or will host the Super Bowl. The BCS title game should not be restricted to the four BCS bowl sites.

On Sunday, December 7, the BCS Selection show would air with the bowls pairing each teams for their games, as they normally would.

Questions? Comments?

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Thad Matta’s basketball Buckeyes will venture into the Breslin Student Events Center in East Lansing to take on Tom Izzo’s 11th-ranked Michigan State Spartans, tonight.

Tip-off is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. ET, and the game will be televised on ESPN with Brent “The Pard’ner” Musburger and Steve “Can I Borrow Some Hair Gel?” Lavin on the call. Erin Andrews will grace her presence on the sidelines.

The Buckeyes were riding an eight-game winning streak into West Lafayette before losing to the Purdue Boilermakers 75-68 on Saturday.

Leading 36-29 at halftime, the young Ohio State team forgot how to shoot, play defense, take care of the ball, set a screen, or to keep quiet when you’re whistled for a foul in the second half.

“We need consistent play, not great play,” Matta said in his press conference on Monday. “Our decision-making and taking care of the basketball need to get better and recognizing what is coming at us, the understanding of what a team is trying to do to us and taking that away.”

One thing Purdue was able to do was put pressure on guard Jamar Butler at the point, which seemed to knock Ohio State’s offense off-kilter.

Likewise, Michigan State is coming off an loss. A very surprising loss, to say the least.

Iowa, the same hapless Hawkeye squad that was drubbed by Ohio State 79-48 last week, knocked off the then-No. 6 Spartans 43-36 at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, Saturday.

The 36 points scored by Michigan State is their lowest total in the shot clock era.

Before the Iowa defeat, the only loss on Michigan State’s ledger happened back on November 20, when the Spartans lost to then-No. 2 UCLA 68-63 at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles.

Michigan State is 3-1 against teams in the Associated Press Top 25 college basketball poll, with wins over N.C. State, BYU, and Texas.

Michigan State is currently ranked 10th in the latest RPI rankings, while Ohio State sits at No. 24, even though the Buckeyes are not ranked in the AP or coaches’ poll.

All five starters returned for Izzo’s Spartans on a team that went 22-11 (8-8 Big Ten) a year ago.

Leading Michigan State in scoring is 6-foot-7 sophomore forward Raymar Morgan, who is averaging 17.6 points per game. He’s also second in the team pulling down on average 7.1 rebounds per outing.

The backcourt is spearheaded by the second-best point guard in the Big Ten, 6-foot senior Drew Neitzel, who is second on the Spartans in scoring, averaging 13.2 points per contest.

Michigan State’s top rebounder and third-leading scorer is 6-foot-10 junior forward Goran Suton (9.3 ppg, 8.6 rpg).

Rounding out the starting five is 6-foot-10 center Drew Naymick (2.9 ppg) or 6-foot-8 junior forward Marquise Gray (6.2 ppg), and 6-foot-2 junior guard Travis Walton (3.3 ppg).

Off the bench two freshmen guards, 6-foot Kalin Lucas (9.2 ppg) and 6-foot-5 Durrell Summers (7.1 ppg) offer some pop.

I hate to say that a game so early in the Big Ten slate is a must-win, but if Ohio State can pull off the upset, it will give this young Buckeye team a huge boost of confidence before having to face No. 6 Tennessee this Saturday in Knoxville.

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In baseball, I’d have batting average of .333, which is good enough to be selected to the All-Star game and eventually enter the Hall of Fame, but it’s not very good when it comes to predicting which juniors are staying or going on to the NFL.

Last week, I just assumed that three juniors, linebacker James Laurinaitis, cornerback Malcolm Jenkins, and defensive end Vernon Gholston would forgo their senior seasons to enter April’s NFL Draft.

Then on Friday, Jenkins surprised me by issuing a statement saying he was going to suit up for the Buckeyes for one more season.

Yesterday, according to Doug Lesmerises of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Laurinaitis will return for his senior year.

A two-time All-American and 2007 Butkus Award winner from Wayzata High School and a native of Hamel, Minn., Laurinaitis appeared to be a top 10 pick, more than likely being selected by the New England Patriots.

“To be honest with you, there was a lot of praying and trying to trust the Lord and there were certain signs,” Laurinaitis said to the PD. “Talking to my mom this weekend, whenever I talked to her about coming back next year with the Buckeyes, I was more excited than anything about the NFL. I’m having too much fun at Ohio State.”

Laurinaitis had 112 tackles on the season, including a BCS championship game-record 18 against LSU.

In December, Ohio State head coach Jim Tressel urged 13 juniors to file their paperwork with the NFL to be evaluated. Three others, linebacker Marcus Freeman, wide receiver Brian Robiskie, and left tackle Alex Boone also considered entering the draft, but ultimately decided to stay as it was assumed.

That means the only junior that leaving early to play on Sundays is Gholston.

But the Buckeyes should be just fine on the defensive line with the return of ends Lawrence Wilson and Robert Rose, who spent most of the season on the shelf due to injuries. It also means that sophomore-to-be Cameron Heyward, who started at end in place of those two, will move to tackle.

With Laurinaitis and Freeman returning, the lone loss in the linebacking corps is senior Larry Grant. And the entire starting secondary will return since Jenkins announced he was staying one more year.

Offensively, Ohio State will lose just two starters, right tackle Kirk Barton and fullback Dionte Johnson.

If my calculations are right, that means nine starters on each side of the ball will return for 2008, which totals 18.

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OK team, it’s time for roll call. When your name is called, please say, “here.”

Jamar Butler? “Here.”

Kosta Koufos? “Here.”

David Lighty? Is David Lightly here? No? How about Evan Turner? Hmm, Jon Diebler? Is Jon Diebler here?

Once against it was basically a one-man show for Ohio State as Butler scored 26 points, but got little help from his supporting cast.

The only other Buckeye to score in double figures was Koufos with 12, but he was limited to 25 minutes of action due to foul trouble.

Speaking of foul trouble, Koufos wasn’t alone, but I will address the poor officiating later.

It was also a tale of two halves at Mackey Arena in West Lafayette as the Buckeyes were handed their first Big Ten loss in over a year with Purdue defeating Ohio State 75-68, Saturday afternoon.

Purdue streaked out to an early 6-0 lead on a pair of three-pointers to start the game, but Ohio State responded by going on a 16-4 run after Othello Hunter scored on a short jumper with 12:01 left in the first half.

The Buckeyes took the lead after Butler drained one of his six treys in the game at the 13:16 mark of the opening period, and never trailed the rest of the half as the Buckeyes held a 36-29 lead at the intermission break.

Similar to the start of the game, Purdue marched out of the locker room at halftime to score the game’s first 10 points of the second half.

But the Buckeyes reclaimed the lead once again after another triple from Butler, and Ohio State found themselves ahead 52-51 with 8:11 left to play.

Shortly thereafter, though, that’s when the wheels fell off for Ohio State.

Purdue took the lead for good when Robbie Hummel connected on a deep three along the baseline and was fouled by Koufos on the release. His four-point play put the Boilermakers up 55-53 with 6:54 remaining.

Ohio State committed a season-high 20 turnovers against Purdue, including six in the final 6:43 of the game.

Purdue’s biggest lead of the game occurred twice, the latter came at the 1:14 mark, when Turner fouled E’Twaun Moore and his two converted free throws put the Boilermakers ahead 70-60.

But the game wasn’t quite over.

With Purdue not being the best free throw-shooting team in the Big Ten, Ohio State started fouling. Of course, it also helped when the Boilermakers were also fouling the Buckeyes, putting them on the line with the clock stopped.

There was a slight glimmer of hope when Koufos tipped-in a missed three-pointer by Diebler that cut the Boilers lead down to a single possession at 72-69 with 26 ticks left on the clock, but Moore was fouled on the inbounds pass and he made both his free throw attempts on the other end of the floor.

Down by five with 20 seconds left, Butler drove to the bucket, but his shot was block by Scott Martin and was corralled before it went out-of-bounds which ended any hope of an OSU comeback.

In the first half, Ohio State was 13-for-30 (43.3%) from the field, and 4 of 11 (36.4%) from beyond the arc.

It was an entirely different story in the second half as the Buckeyes shot just 28.1 percent (9-for-32) from the floor, and made only two of their 14 three-point attempts (15.4%).

Purdue, meanwhile, struggled in the first half, shooting 10-for-31 from the field (32.3%), and 4 of 12 from three-point range, but improved in the second stanza making 13 of their 29 (44.8%) shots from the floor, and were 4-for-9 (44.4%) from downtown.

The Boilermakers, which generally feature a four-guard line-up, outrebounded the bigger Buckeyes, 42-40.

It just appeared that Purdue, especially in the second half, wanted the win more.

Now about the officiating.

It was one of the more poorly-called games I have seen in recent memory. Ohio State was whistled several times for moving screens. And each instance, it appeared that the Buckeye player setting the pick had his feet set. On one instance, Hunter was called for that foul, then was promptly given a technical for even questioning the call.

Two players fouled out for the Buckeyes, Hunter and Lighty, while two others finished with four fouls each.

In the late stages of the game, Koufos was coming down with a rebound and was basically body-slammed down to the floor, but there was no call. Shortly thereafter, Diebler drove to the bucket following a steal by P.J. Hill, and he was hacked hard from behind, but no fragrant foul was called, even though Deibler was on the deck in obvious pain.

Just remember these referee’s names: Rick Hartzell, J.D. Collins, David Maracich, because this crew is not very good.

Up next, Ohio State travels to E. Lansing to take on the (enter new ranking here) Michigan State Spartans at the Breslin Students Events Center, Tuesday night. Tip-off is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. ET, and the game will be televised on ESPN.

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