1989–90 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team

1989–90 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball

Big Ten Champions Great Alaska Shootout Champions Oldsmobile Spartan Classic Champions
NCAA Tournament, Sweet Sixteen
Conference	Big Ten Conference
Ranking
Coaches	No. 7
AP	No. 3
1989–90 record	28–6 (15–3 Big Ten)
Head coach	Jud Heathcote (14th year)
Assistant coach	Tom Izzo
Assistant coach	Herb Williams
Assistant coach	Jim Boylen
Captain	Steve Smith
Captain	Ken Redfield
Home arena	Breslin Center

1989–90 Big Ten Conference men's basketball standings
	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
#3 Michigan State	15	–	3	.833	28	–	6	.824
#10 Purdue	13	–	5	.722	22	–	8	.733
#13 Michigan	12	–	6	.667	23	–	8	.742
#18 Illinois	11	–	7	.611	21	–	8	.724
#20 Minnesota	11	–	7	.611	23	–	9	.719
Ohio State	10	–	8	.556	17	–	13	.567
Indiana	8	–	10	.444	18	–	11	.621
Wisconsin	4	–	14	.222	14	–	17	.452
Iowa	4	–	14	.222	12	–	16	.429
Northwestern	2	–	16	.111	9	–	19	.321

Rankings from AP Poll

The 1989–90 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team represented Michigan State University in the 1989–90 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team played their home games at Breslin Center for the first time in East Lansing, Michigan and were members of the Big Ten Conference. They were coached by Jud Heathcote in his 14th year at Michigan State. The Spartans finished the season with a record of 28–6, 15–3 to win the Big Ten Championship. They received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament as a No. 1 seed.

In the Tournament, the Spartans narrowly defeated 16th-seeded Murray State, led by Popeye Jones, in overtime to avoid becoming the only No. 1 seed to lose to a 16 seed.^[1]^[2] They again narrowly defeated ninth-seeded UC Santa Barbara in the Second Round by four points to advance to the Sweet Sixteen for the first time since 1986.^[3] There they lost to fourth-seeded Georgia Tech that featured a controversial last second basket by Kenny Anderson to force overtime where the Spartans fell 80–81.^[4]

Previous season

The Spartans finished the 1988–89 season with an overall record of 18–15, 6–12 to finish in 8th place in Big Ten play. Michigan State received a bid to the NIT. They beat Kent State, Wichita State, and Villanova to reach the final four at Madison Square Garden. There they lost to Saint Louis and to UAB in the third place game.

Roster

1989–90 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team
No	Name	Pos	Year	Height	Pts	Reb	Ast
22	Jeff Casler	G	JR	6–0	0.8	0.4	0.5
23	Jesse Hall	G	JR	6–3	1.0	1.1	0.4
42	Parish Hickman	F	SO	6–7	6.3	4.4	0.7
10	Kirk Manns	G	SR	6–1	15.3	1.8	1.8
11	Mark Montgomery	G	SO	6–2	3.6	2.0	2.9
34	Dave Mueller	C	SR	6–9	0.3	0.5	0.0
54	Mike Peplowski	C	FR	6–10	5.3	5.8	0.7
20	Ken Redfield	F	SR	6–7	11.6	6.8	3.1
21	Steve Smith	G	JR	6–6	20.2	7.0	4.8
35	Matt Steigenga	F	SO	6–7	10.4	3.5	1.9
31	Dwayne Stephens	F	FR	6–7	4.3	3.0	0.8
24	Todd Wolfe	G	SR	6–5	2.1	1.2	0.4
25	Jon Zulauf	F	FR	6–6	0.7	1.0	0.2

Source^[5]^[6]

Schedule and results

Date Time, TV	Rank^#	Opponent^#	Result	Record	Site City, State
Non-conference regular season
Nov 24, 1989*		vs. Auburn Great Alaska Shootout	W 92–79	1–0	Sullivan Arena Anchorage, AK
Nov 25, 1989*		vs. Texas A&M Great Alaska Shootout semifinals	W 87–75	2–0	Sullivan Arena Anchorage, AK
Nov 27, 1989*		Kansas State Great Alaska Shootout championship	W 73–68	3–0	Sullivan Arena Anchorage, AK
Nov 29, 1989*		Nebraska	W 80–69	4–0	Breslin Center East Lansing, MI
Dec 2, 1989*		at Furman	W 84–63	5–0	Memorial Auditorium Greenville, SC
Dec 9, 1989*		Austin Peay	W 88–76	6–0	Breslin Center East Lansing, MI
Dec 12, 1989*	No. 25	at UIC	L 57–65	6–1	UIC Pavilion Chicago, IL
Dec 16, 1989*	No. 25	Detroit Mercy	W 94–65	7–1	Breslin Center East Lansing, MI
Dec 18, 1989*	No. 25	Bowling Green State	W 79–81	7–2	Breslin Center East Lansing, MI
Dec 20, 1989*	No. 25	at Evansville	W 80–66	8–2	Roberts Stadium Evansville, IN
Dec 23, 1989*	No. 25	Eastern Michigan	W 87–73	9–2	Breslin Center East Lansing, MI
Dec 29, 1989*		San Jose State Oldsmobile Spartan Classic semifinals	W 88–61	10–2	Breslin Center East Lansing, MI
Dec 30, 1989*		Princeton Oldsmobile Spartan Classic championship	W 51–49	11–2	Breslin Center East Lansing, MI
Big Ten regular season
Jan 6, 1990		at Wisconsin	W 64–61	12–2 (1–0)	Wisconsin Field House Madison, WI
Jan 11, 1990		Ohio State	W 78–68	13–2 (2–0)	Breslin Center East Lansing, MI
Jan 13, 1990		Iowa	W 87–80	14–2 (3–0)	Breslin Center East Lansing, MI
Jan 18, 1990		at No. 7 Illinois	L 64–73	14–3 (3–1)	Assembly Hall (Illinois) Champaign, IL
Jan 20, 1990		Northwestern	W 91–80	15–3 (4–1)	Breslin Center East Lansing, MI
Jan 24, 1990		at No. 12 Indiana	W 75–57	16–3 (5–1)	Assembly Hall Bloomington, IN
Jan 27, 1990		at No. 7 Michigan Rivalry	L 63–65	16–4 (5–2)	Crisler Arena Ann Arbor, MI
Feb 1, 1990		No. 19 Minnesota	L 74–79	16–5 (5–3)	Breslin Center East Lansing, MI
Feb 3, 1990		No. 8 Purdue	W 64–53	17–5 (6–3)	Mackey Arena West Lafayette, IN
Feb 8, 1990	No. 23	Wisconsin	W 60–57	18–5 (7–3)	Breslin Center East Lansing, MI
Feb 10, 1990	No. 25	at Ohio State	W 84–75	19–5 (8–3)	St. John Arena Columbus, OH
Feb 12, 190	No. 23	at Iowa	W 80–70	20–5 (9–3)	Carver-Hawkeye Arena Iowa City, IA
Feb 17, 1990	No. 21	No. 15 Illinois	W 70–63	21–6 (10–3)	Breslin Center East Lansing, MI
Feb 25, 1990	No. 15	No. 25 Indiana	W 72–66	22–6 (11–3)	Breslin Center East Lansing, MI
Mar 1, 1990	No. 14	No. 8 Michigan Rivalry	W 78–70	23–5 (12–3)	Breslin Center East Lansing, MI
Mar 3, 1990	No. 14	at No. 7 Minnesota	W 75–73	24–5 (13–3)	Williams Arena Minneapolis, MN
Mar 8, 1990	No. 7	at Northwestern	W 84–68	25–5 (14–3)	Welsh-Ryan Arena Evanston, IL
Mar 11, 1990	No. 7	No. 10 Purdue	W 72–70	26–5 (15–3)	Breslin Center East Lansing, MI
NCAA Tournament
Mar 15, 1990*	(1 SE) No. 3	vs. (16 SE) Murray State First Round	W 75–71 ^OT	27–5	Thompson-Boling Arena Knoxville, TN
Mar 17, 1990*	(1 SE) No. 3	vs. (9 SE) UC-Santa Barbara Second Round	W 62–58	28–5	Thompson-Boling Arena Knoxville, TN
Mar 23, 1990*	(1 SE) No. 3	vs. (4 SE) No. 9 Georgia Tech Sweet Sixteen	L 80–81 ^OT	28–6	Louisiana Superdome New Orleans, LA
*Non-conference game. ^#Rankings from AP Poll,. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses. All times are in Central Time Source^[7].

Rankings

Ranking movement
**Legend:** ██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking. (RV) Received votes but unranked. (NR) Not ranked.
Poll	Pre	Wk 2	Wk 3	Wk 4	Wk 5	Wk 6	Wk 7	Wk 8	Wk 9	Wk 10	Wk 11	Wk 12	Wk 13	Wk 14	Wk 15	Wk 16	Wk 17
AP	NR	NR	NR	25	25	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	23	21	15	14	7	3

Source.^[8]

References

↑ Times, Barry Jacobs, Special To The New York (1990-03-16). "Michigan State Edges Murray State in Overtime". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-07-07.
↑ PENNER, MIKE (1990-03-16). "NCAA BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT : SOUTHEAST REGIONAL : Popeye Can't Finish Off Michigan State". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2016-07-07.
↑ "Michigan State Not Trying To Look Good, And Succeeding". Retrieved 2016-07-07.
↑ PENNER, MIKE (1990-03-24). "NCAA BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT : SOUTHEAST REGIONALS : Georgia Tech Beats Clock (?), Michigan State in Overtime". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2016-07-07.
↑ http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/michigan-state/1991-schedule.html
↑ http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/msu/sports/m-baskbl/auto_pdf/2015-16/misc_non_event/201516basketballguide.pdf
↑ http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/michigan-state/1990-schedule.html
↑ "1993 Michigan State Spartans". College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2016-04-29.

Michigan State Spartans men's basketball

Venues	Armory (1899–1918) IM Circle (1918–1930) Demonstration Hall (1930-1940) Jenison Fieldhouse (1940–1989) Breslin Student Events Center (1989–present)

Rivalries	Michigan

Culture & lore	Basketbowl Champions Classic "The Flintstones" Izzone Michigan State student riots

People	Head coaches Retired numbers

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