2023-10-25: Play Index Update.

We continue to work on moving all of the CBB Play Index content to Stathead.com/Basketball. This process has taken longer than expected, so we are allowing continued use of the these tools on CBB until the new tools are available.

We don't have a firm timeline for the launch of CBB on Stathead, but we fully intend to have it available well before the end of the 2023-24 season for both men's and women's basketball.

Because we will soon be taking down this page, we have not added coverage for women's stats to these tools. We apologize for this omission.

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Matchup Finder

Search historical schedules and rankings back to the 1949-50 season.
Schedules prior to the 1994-95 season may be missing games vs. non-Division I opponents.

Note that the AP has ranked a variable number of teams since it began in 1948-49.

 1948-49 through 1960-61: top 20
 1961-62 through 1963-64: top 10
 1964-65: top 10, except for preseason which was top 20
 1965-66 through 1967-68: top 10
 1968-69 through 1988-89: top 20
 1989-90 through present: top 25

Current search:
From 1949-50 to 2016-17, for Michigan State, against Central Michigan, sorted by descending Date

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Try our NCAA Tournament Matchup Finder for even more Tournament-related search options

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12 Wins, 3 Losses, .800 W%

Query Results

Query Results Table
Year Date   Schl Rk.   Opp Rk.     PTS OPP MOV   OT
1997-981997-11-28Michigan StateCentral MichiganW896128
1995-961995-12-29Michigan StateCentral MichiganL6269-7
1990-911990-12-20Michigan State24Central MichiganW746113
1985-861986-03-04Michigan State17Central MichiganW1036043
1983-841983-11-25Michigan State12Central MichiganW735221
1982-831982-11-27Michigan StateCentral MichiganW624715
1981-821981-11-27Michigan StateCentral MichiganW897019
1980-811980-11-29Michigan StateCentral MichiganL6689-23
1979-801979-12-18Michigan State@Central MichiganW957619
1978-791978-11-27Michigan State7Central MichiganW715417
1977-781977-11-28Michigan StateCentral MichiganW68617
1976-771976-11-29Michigan State@Central MichiganL7681-5
1975-761975-12-01Michigan StateCentral MichiganW69618
1974-751974-12-02Michigan StateCentral MichiganW82784
1973-741973-12-01Michigan State@Central MichiganW78708
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