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How to watch, listen or stream Michigan hockey vs. MSU in NCAA Tournament

HUGE game on Sunday night! Don’t miss it! #GoBlue #BeatMSU

The last time Michigan hockey faced off against rival Michigan State, though the Wolverines appeared to have an upper hand, a questionable goal tied things up for the Spartans, and MSU went on to win the Big Ten Tournament championship, 5-4, in overtime.

Now, the stakes are even higher, with a trip to the Frozen Four on the line. The 3-seed Wolverines hope to avenge the 1-4 record against MSU in 2023-24, this time on the biggest stage. If you’re Michigan, win and you’re taking a trip to St. Paul, Minnesota to face either Boston College or Quinnipiac for the right to advance to the championship game — while sending your rival home. Lose, and you’re going back to Ann Arbor, not set to take the ice again until next season.

If you’re planning on watching the game, here is all the information you need.

Basic info

When: Sun., March 31, 2024, 6:30 p.m. EDT

Where: Centene Community Ice Center (Maryland Heights, Mo.)

Who: Michigan State Spartans (1-seed, 25-9-3)

Line: MSU -1.5

How to watch/listen:

Streaming: TV: WatchESPN; fuboTV; Audio: MGoBlue

Broadcast: ESPN2

Radio: The Varsity Network

Notes:

Via MGoBlue.com

• One of college hockey’s greatest rivalries is renewed for the second time in as many weeks in the NCAA’s Maryland Heights Regional, as the University of Michigan and Michigan State will face off for the 343rd all-time meeting, but first in the NCAA tournament.

• U-M owns a 176-142-24 advantage over the Spartans in the all-time series, including a narrow 11-10 edge in postseason meetings. MSU won the first seven postseason contests between the rivals until Michigan turned the tables in 1996. Since then, U-M is 11-3 in the playoffs versus the Spartans.

• Michigan opened the 2024 NCAA tournament by knocking off No. 5 North Dakota on Friday night. After falling behind in both the first and second periods, Michigan tied the game early in the second and third periods. In the final frame, the Wolverines never looked back, scoring three times to secure a 4-3 win. The line of Dylan Duke, Garrett Schifsky and T.J. Hughes was tremendous. Duke, the Wolverines’ leading active career scorer, netted a pair of goals in the third period. Meanwhile, Schifsky notched two assists and Hughes scored one while assisting on another. The trio finished the night with a combined +8 rating.

• Rutger McGroarty leads the team in scoring with 52 points on 16 goals and team-high 36 assists. Big Ten Player of the Year Gavin Brindley has 51 points off a team-best 24 goals and 27 helpers. After Duke’s two goals Friday, he is now tied with the team lead in goals with 24 while adding 22 assists. Hughes matches his total with 46 points, followed by Seamus Casey with 45 and Frank Nazar III with 40. All six are averaging over one point per game. McGroarty and Casey rank third and fourth nationally in helpers.

• Michigan’s top-ranked power-play unit is operating at 35 percent and has scored 49 times, the most for Michigan since they had 49 in 2005-06. U-M has been strong in the faceoff dot (52.7 percent) and the penalty kill (78.6 percent) has improved in the second half.

• In a homecoming for Jake Barczewski, a native of O’Fallon, Mo., he set a new career high in wins by going 19-13-3 as a Wolverine. Earlier this year, he surpassed a pair of major milestones with his 100th collegiate start and 3,000th career save. Barczewski is the active NCAA saves leader with 3,674 over his five seasons. The goaltender has accrued 955 this year while posting a .907 save percentage and 2.83 goals-against average along with a pair of shutouts.

• This year’s NCAA tournament bid for the Wolverines is the 41st in program history. That figure is a record, as are Michigan’s 27 Frozen Four appearances and nine national titles. After Friday’s win, the Wolverines improve to 58-32 in the tournament all-time.

Dusty May says the right thing when it comes to Michigan basketball rivalries

He gets it! #GoBlue

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The thing that makes college sports better than their professional counterparts is that the rivalries are much more heated and more intense. There’s a lot more pride on the line with college allegiances than that in the pros, so getting a head coach who understands his school’s rivalries is of paramount importance.

New Michigan basketball head coach Dusty May has had quite a few stops ranging from his time as a player to throughout his coaching career, so he’s seen his share. He was a student manager at Indiana under Bobby Knight before getting his coaching start at Eastern Michigan — just seven miles down the road from Ann Arbor in Ypsilanti. He’s coached at Florida under Mike White, so he knows both rivalries as well as this region — both from his time in Bloomington as well as being an Illinois native.

Though he’s had something of a whirlwind — coaching FAU in the NCAA Tournament on Friday before accepting the Michigan job on Saturday — May doesn’t need to acclimatize to who the Wolverines’ rivals are in Ohio State and Michigan State.

WolverinesWire asked him on Tuesday at his introductory press conference what he knows about Michigan’s rivalries and he dropped one line that indicates he’s well aware of how things work up in Ann Arbor.

“I grew up in Big Ten country — you’re well aware of the rivalries,” May said. “And I became really, really close with a few guys that played football at the school down south. And Cris Carter lived in a neighborhood next door he works at FAU now. So I’m very, very familiar with the rivalries.”

The most Michigan thing ever is to not mention Michigan State while acknowledging Ohio State as ‘the school down south.’ Whether that was already in May’s vernacular or he learned that upon taking the job is unclear, but he already seems to have a good first grasp on what the maize and blue are all about in respect to the schools Michigan loathes.

Turnovers, miscues doom Michigan basketball vs. MSU

Typically pathetic. #GoBlue

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The last time Michigan basketball faced a rival at home, it surprised by downing Ohio State. Despite losing in a blowout to Michigan State in East Lansing, could the Wolverines get the win in Ann Arbor in the rematch?

Michigan would have to work without Terrance Williams II who was out with an undisclosed illness. Jaelin Llewellyn was thus inserted into the starting lineup and he came out strong, with an early and-one continuation and 3-pointer. The Wolverines shot well early, but turnovers slowed them down as they nursed a tenuous lead.

The hot shooting for both teams cooled off by the under-12 media timeout, as both struggled with two-plus minute scoring droughts. MSU broke the stalemate first, and with just under 11 minutes, the score was knotted at 16.

The Spartans had a one-point lead but after a steal, Coen Carr was on a breakaway and drew a flagrant one foul on Michigan forward Will Tschetter, but he only hit one of the two free throws.

The maize and blue continued to struggle on both ends of the floor, finding themselves down nine, and unable to finish at the basket. The Crisler Center crowd erupted — but because the MSU contingent on hand was becoming more and more boisterous and bloodthirsty as the Wolverines faltered.

But after MSU’s 7-0 run, Michigan guard Dug McDaniel went on a 7-0 run of his own, hitting a floater, two free throws, and a 3-pointer to pull within two points with three minutes left in the first half. It took all of a minute for the Spartans to go back up six, but Nimari Burnett hit a clutch 3 followed by a turnaround jumper by Olivier Nkamhoua. Michigan retook the lead with 38.7 left in the first half with a Llewellyn 3-pointer. MSU tied it back up on ensuing free throws and McDaniel had a disastrous sequence — turning the ball over, and then fouling with 0.4 seconds left in the half, sending the Spartans to the line to retake the lead, 39-37.

Michigan was in striking distance, but given how the maize and blue have tended to play in the second half, it was worth wondering if there was any chance. But the script could have been flipped, as MSU had a two-point lead at the half this time around, whereas Michigan had one in East Lansing.

At least the beginning of the second half was a script-flipped, as the Wolverines went from down two to up five in the first three-and-a-half minutes. Michigan pushed the lead to six, but the Spartans clawed back with some Wolverine miscues, and with 12:43 remaining, it was a one-point game. By the under-12 media timeout, it was a tie game, once again.

The Spartans retook the lead and went up five after the Wolverines continued to be turnover-prone. Michigan had 16 turnovers with McDaniel and Nkamhoua having a shared 11 giveaways at that point of the game. Considering that MSU had 19 points off turnovers while Michigan outshot the Spartans, it was the difference in the game as the maize and blue were down five.

Michigan took a quick timeout and scored five unanswered points to tie the game, but MSU took the lead back on a putback dunk with just under eight minutes remaining.

Tschetter tied the game back up at 63 coming out of the under-eight media timeout. Shoddy defense mixed with anemic offense and turnovers allowed the Spartans to take the lead again with under six minutes to go — 67-63, MSU.

After more miscues, MSU had an eight-point lead and possession at the under-four media timeout. Michigan was imploding — albeit later than usual. Cries of ‘Go Green, Go White’ drowned out the marching band playing ‘The Victors.’

Michigan immediately turned the ball over after running a slow-developing offensive set. Though MSU couldn’t capitalize, time was running short, up eight with 90 seconds remaining.

Alas, it wasn’t to be, as Michigan lost, 73-63, to rival Michigan State.

The Wolverines finished with 22 turnovers in the game, giving the Spartans 25 points in return. This despite out-shooting and out-rebounding MSU in the matchup. The Spartans finished the game on a 10-0 run.

Everything Michigan basketball coach Juwan Howard said about MSU

Gotta win this one. #GoBlue

Michigan basketball has lost three straight games after shocking Ohio State two weeks ago at Crisler Center. But the Wolverines have a tough task ahead of them as they take the show on the road to play rival Michigan State.

Though the Spartans aren’t quite as dominant as expected, they’re still quite good. And with the maize and blue coming off of one of the worst losses in recent memory in Purdue (the Wolverines lost to Iowa since, in a game in which they were favored), they need to get right. And beating the biggest rival in basketball in East Lansing would certainly help.

Michigan head coach Juwan Howard met with the media via Zoom on Monday to discuss Tuesday night’s matchup. Here is everything he had to say.

Michigan football vs. MSU: Prediction, point spread, odds, best bet

Finally got a game coming up! #GoBlue

Despite Michigan football being in the news for all the wrong reasons, the Wolverines will take the field still undefeated entering Week 10. The maize and blue’s next foe is a roiling Purdue Boilermakers team that has not played nearly as well as its predecessor Michigan saw in the Big Ten Championship game a year ago.

The game starts at 7:30 p.m. EDT and can be seen on NBC.

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Two weeks ago, the Wolverines won emphatically, completely dominating Michigan State, 49-0, the worst beating the Spartans have received at the hands of the Wolverines in Spartan Stadium since 1947.

If you thought the past few games have seen lofty point spreads, this week is even more emphatic with the struggling Boilermakers coming to town.

  • Point spread: Michigan -32.5
  • Money line: N/A
  • Over-under: 52.5

Purdue Boilermakers vs. Michigan Wolverines injury report:

Michigan

OUT

  • Karmello English
  • Kalel Mullings
  • C.J. Stokes

questionable

  • Zeke Berry
  • Marlin Klein

Purdue

Out

  • Abdur-Rahmaan Yaseen
  • Damarjhe Lewis
  • Scotty Humpich
  • Luke Griffin (Season)

Questionable

  • Julio Macias
  • Mahamane Moussa

Advice and prediction

Ryan Walters has had some harsh words for Jim Harbaugh and the Wolverines, declaring them guilty of the allegations. Michigan has had to sit on its hands the past two weeks and just listen to all of the noise about ‘cheating’ and everything else. While I think there’s an opportunity for Purdue to jump on a Wolverines team that maybe will be pushing a little too hard at the outset of the game. But then, expect a team with much more talent across the board to do what it’s been doing: dominate thoroughly and convincingly.

We’re taking Michigan in the spread and the over.

Prediction: Michigan 55, Purdue 10

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Get more betting analysis and predictions at Sportsbook Wire.

Michigan football players on 49-0 win over MSU: We remembered last year

As the Starks often said, ‘The North remembers.’ #GoBlue

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — In the lead-up to the Week 8 game against rival Michigan State, Michigan football players said all of the right things. ‘We’re not focused on the tunnel incident from last year, we’re focused on this year.’ ‘That’s in the past, we’re not worried about it,’ and things of that ilk.

However, now that the Wolverines are over a week removed from annihilating MSU, 49-0, one thing is for sure: the North remembers.

Game of Thrones idioms aside, now that that game is past and the bye week is also in the rearview, players are admitting, yeah, we said that we put it in the past, but that’s just what we said. In reality, the remnants of the 2021 game were front and center in the minds of the players who endured from it.

“We came to that game, we wanted to make a statement for the bye week,” team captain and left guard Trevor Keegan said. “I think it really is just the thing that happened last year in the tunnel — that really motivated as well. I know guys were like, ‘Don’t let it distract you,’ things like that. And, you know, ‘We’re over it.’ No, we weren’t over it. We wanted to come there, really beat down on them. So it was nice. It was a good time.”

Not only did Michigan football remember, but it relished the opportunity to go and decimate — nay, embarrass — its rival as they did.

So if MSU players decided to do any talking on the field in between plays, the Wolverines were determined to let their play do the talking for them. 49 points scored offensively and zero allowed defensively later, mission accomplished.

“Absolutely. With them being our rivals, it’s always fun to be able to kick some butt, just get a rival win, get a state championship win under our belt,” senior defensive tackle Kris Jenkins said. “But, honestly, with that incident, I mean, like we’ve been saying, it’s an unfortunate, ugly incident, nothing that we stand for, we wanted to happen.

“So, with all that aside, you know, we just came in there to just kick some butt, win as one. We knew there was going to be talking related to that incident the second we got in there, but it didn’t matter. All we have, all we got is us. So, despite all the adversities we face or we faced last year, we continue to do what we do best.”

What MSU coach Harlon Barnett said after Michigan football 49-0 drubbing

He was completely in over his head. #GoBlue

EAST LANSING, Mich. — At Big Ten media days in July, former Michigan State head coach Mel Tucker boasted this was the most talent he had in East Lansing. He lasted two games before being ousted from his position due to an internal scandal, but it was evident even before he left the program that the Spartans were in real trouble this year.

Five games later, MSU is 2-5, and interim head coach Harlon Barnett has had no answers.

First it was the 41-7 drubbing by Washington, but Michigan came into Spartan Stadium and made it much worse, beating MSU, 49-0.

Barnett didn’t talk a great deal about Michigan football after the game, but here is what he did say about the Wolverines in his postgame press conference.

Notebook: Michigan football overwhelmingly beats Michigan State

Some interesting nuggets from the big win! #GoBlue

Michigan football went out and absolutely annihilated rival Michigan State on Saturday in a game that wasn’t even as close as the 49-0 score would typically indicate.

There are some notable things that happened in the game, that we caught. Check them out:

  • Michigan’s defensive line coach Mike Elston has clearly been focusing on batting passes. Michigan has swatted a number of pass attempts already this season, and Saturday night they added a few more with Kenneth Grant and Braiden McGregor getting their hands on one each.
  • The cornerback rotation has been one to watch. Wallace and Johnson are the clear starters, but D.J. Waller and Amorion Walker each got meaningful snaps. Waller getting that playing time as a true freshman is especially noteable given his recruiting status. Ja’Den McBurrows also had a great night. This unit originally looked like it would be a weakness, but now they could go five deep.
  • This offense forces defenses to be perfect. Each position group is stacked, and J.J. McCarthy executes the system with near perfect play. It will be tough to stop this team for four quarters. So far, no one has even done it for three.
  • McCarthy’s best skill is his ability to throw on the run. That is so valuable in a sport that favors QBs who can extend plays. His chemistry is building with AJ Barner and Roman Wilson, watch for Michigan to hit chunk plays after the pocket breaks down. Just don’t hold…
  • Jimmy Rolder played his first snaps late in the game. The Sophomore has been injured so far this year, and will redshirt. Until then, he can play in four games. He is likely a starter next year if Colson moves onto the NFL, so having him back is good for experience.

Social media reactions to Michigan football win over MSU

You’re gonna want to see these! #GoBlue

Michigan football, despite everything happening off the field, simply stormed away with the win, unbothered by anything else. Even better? It happened in a rivalry game.

Given it was rivalry week, X, formerly Twitter, was bursting with photos and reactions. MSU writers expressed their disappointment, while U-M media focused on flexing their muscles.

J.J. McCarthy was on fire, the defense pitched a shutout, and Michigan’s tight ends had a terrific night. The team celebrated the win on-field with a Paul Bunyan parade.

Of course, Michigan boasts the best fan base in the world. Check out some of the best X reactions to the prime-time matchup!

Things you might not have known about Michigan football’s win over MSU

Some really cool trivia here! #GoBlue

Michigan football continued its dominance from the — well — rest of the season, but this time did it in a rivalry game. The Wolverines went on the road and annihilated rival Michigan State, leaving no doubt, 49-0.

If you watched the game either on TV or live in person, you learned a lot about what happened at Spartan Stadium, but chances are you missed a lot, too! That’s where the folks at MGoBlue.com have us covered!

Here are some facts, tidbits and trivia from the game that you might not have known.

Facts/tidbits:

  • With Saturday’s win, the Wolverines have won 20 straight Big Ten games dating to 2021, the new longest streak in program history. Today’s victory broke a tie with the 1990-92 squads coached by Gary Moeller that won 19 straight league games.
  • The Maize and Blue have won 23 consecutive regular-season games dating to 2021, the third-longest streak in Big Ten history.
  • U-M improved to 73-38-5 all-time in 116 meetings between Michigan and Michigan State. The Wolverines are 40-29-2 when playing for the Paul Bunyan Governor’s Trophy (since 1953) and 20-15-2 all-time in Spartan Stadium (22-15-2 overall on the road in the series).
  • The team is 5-4 against the Spartans under head coach Jim Harbaugh.
  • With a margin of victory of 49 over the Spartans, U-M tied the 1974 Ohio State team for the most consecutive Big Ten wins by 38-plus points (four). Tonight’s score was the largest margin of victory in the rivalry since 1983, when U-M won 42-0.
  • U-M is the only team at the Football Bowl Subdivision level to be undefeated and win each of its games by 20-plus points through eight weeks.
  • U-M was up 28-0 at the half, the largest halftime lead in the series since 1947 (also 28-0), when the Wolverines won 55-0.
  • In holding the Spartans to zero points, Michigan has held its first eight opponents under 10 points (and won all of those games) for the first time since 1973 when the team went 10-0-1 and allowed a season-high 13 points.
  • It was the first time MSU was shut out in the rivalry since 2000, a 14-0 win for U-M. It was the first time MSU was shut out at home in the rivalry since a 31-0 win in 1985.
  • Michigan has scored 30-plus in 11 straight games, the longest streak in program history. The 1976 squad (eight games) previously held the record.
  • U-M has scored 40-plus points in three straight Big Ten games for the first time since 2021, when Michigan scored 59 against Maryland, 42 against Ohio State and 42 against Iowa.
  • Quarterback J.J. McCarthy has made 21 career starts as a Wolverine. U-M is 20-1 in that span.
  • McCarthy is 106 career passing yards shy of Steve Smith (4.680 career pass yards) to enter the top 10 all-time. His four touchdown passes in Saturday night’s game moved him into a tie for sixth-most all-time with Shea Patterson (45). Rick Leach (48) is next on the list at fifth all-time.
  • Running back Blake Corum (3,038 career rushing yards entering) passed Billy Taylor (3,072) for ninth place on the all-time rushing list. Next up is Rob Lytle (3,317 yards) in eighth.
  • Corum scored one rushing touchdown to give him 44 for his career, with only Tyrone Wheatley (47) and Anthony Thomas (55) above him.
  • Wide receiver Roman Wilson became the 12th player in U-M history with 10 or more receiving touchdowns in a season, and tied Braylon Edwards for the 11th-most in one campaign, when he caught his first-quarter score. With two more touchdowns (12 total), Wilson can move into a tie with Mario Manningham (2007) for sixth-most in a single-season all-time. Four players had 11 in one season.
  • Tight end Colston Loveland has at least one reception in every game this season. Loveland caught a 22-yard touchdown strike against the Spartans, giving him at least one receiving touchdown in three straight games. He added a second 22-yard touchdown catch in the second quarter for his first career multi-touchdown game.
  • Tight end AJ Barner set career highs with eight catches for 99 yards in Saturday night’s game (previous best, five, while at Indiana). Barner caught an 11-yard touchdown against the Spartans in the third quarter. This was Barner’s first touchdown of the season.
  • Tight end Marlin Klein made his first career reception in the fourth quarter, an eight-yard grab.
  • The U-M offense went 7-of-11 on third down. Before Saturday, the Spartan defense allowed opposing offenses to convert on third down only 24.7% of the time, which ranked first in the Big Ten and third in the FBS behind only Utah and Georgia.
  • The Spartans managed only 10 rushing yards in the first half, the fewest in this rivalry since 2014, when it was U-M who was stifled to the tune of minus-five rush yards.
  • The defense held the Spartans to 6-of-16 on third down. On the season, U-M has forced three-and-outs or turnovers in the first four plays of a series on 33-of-72 possessions (25 three-and-outs, eight turnovers forced).
  • No opponent has scored more than one touchdown against the U-M defense and that trend continued.
  • No team has run a play inside Michigan’s 10-yard line this season.
  • Mike Sainristil recorded U-M’s fourth interception returned for a touchdown so far this year with his 72-yard pick six in the third quarter. Sainristil has two, and Will Johnson and Keon Sabb have one each. That four pick sixes in a season matches the 1998 and 2018 seasons for the single-season program record.
  • Sainristil’s return for a touchdown was the seventh-longest in program history at 72 yards and the longest since Josh Metellus’ 73-yard return score against SMU in 2018.
  • U-M has at least one interception in five straight games since Will Johnson returned to the starting lineup against Rutgers (Sept. 23), adding to that streak tonight with Sainristil’s 72-yard interception returned for a touchdown in the third quarter. On the season, U-M has allowed three passing touchdowns to 10 interceptions (including four interceptions returned for touchdowns).
  • MSU running back Nate Carter was held to a season low of 36 rushing yards (previous season low: 48 yards vs. Washington). Before today’s matchup, he was averaging 88.2 rushing yards per game, which ranked fourth in the Big Ten.