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Men’s college basketball breakout Robbie Avila gave an understandable reason for transferring to St. Louis

Robbie Avila has picked his new team, and it makes a ton of sense as to why.

One of this past men’s college basketball season’s breakout stars has found a new team.

Former Indiana State center Robbie Avila, the man with the best nicknames in the game, shared with The Field of 68 on Saturday that he’ll be following coach Josh Schertz to St. Louis to join the Billikens this upcoming season as a transfer.

Avila said he got attention from Power 5 schools, but he chose to stick with the coach he played for these past few seasons at Indiana State.

It’s a very understandable decision for Avila, as he’ll be joining a coach he’s got intense familiarity with as he tries to improve his game and perhaps make it at the NBA level one day.

St. Louis will absolutely benefit from adding one of the real mid-major stars from this past year, as we won’t be shocked if the Billikens go dancing next spring in 2025’s March Madness.

We’re very excited to see what’s next for Avila as his college basketball legend will grow in the Show Me State.

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Michigan State basketball holds off pesky Indiana State, wins fourth straight

MSU holds off a pesky Indiana State team, 87-75:

Michigan State welcomed in Indiana State on Saturday afternoon for a game at the Breslin Center. The Sycamores came into the game as a scary opponent for the Spartans, sitting at 11-1 and one of the nations best offenses, ISU was going to give MSU all that they could handle, and they did.

Behind two outstanding performances from Tyson Walker (22 points) and AJ Hoggard (17 points), the Spartans were able to hold off the visiting Sycamores, winning 87-75.

The name of the game for Indiana State was the three ball, taking 35 three pointers in the game and making 14, keeping them in the game.

Michigan State took a 10 point lead into the halftime break, leading 44-34.

Indiana State came out firing in the second half, and outscored Michigan State by 15, culminating in a 64-59 Sycamores lead with 10:36 remaining in the game.

From that point on, Michigan State showed their mental toughness, and showed that this is the team fans expected to see this season, outscoring ISU 28-12 over the final ten minutes to close out a victory.

Aiding the guard play was a strong performance by Malik Hall, who finished with 18 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists in the game. Mady Sissoko also had a solid game, securing 12 rebounds for the Spartans.

MSU will be back in action on Thursday, at home, in search of their first Big Ten win of the season against Penn State.