MICHIGAN STATE vs MICHIGAN RIVALRY NUMBERS: WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

The sports media tends to overlook any situation where Michigan State looks better than Michigan. They can't avoid coverage of successful football and men's basketball teams, as everybody is already looking in that direction.

A key oversight by the collective sports media is its treatment of Women's College Basketball. This is the #3/#4 so-called "revenue sport" in the B1G, just behind or ahead of Hockey. But it barely gets coverage, with game reports coming out slowly, and little to no pre-game analysis. Few people can even name any Spartan women's players. (Aerial Powers made her game impossible to set aside, and her name was very memorable. Can you name another?)

MSU has been hammering UM in Women's College Basketball since the sport was "invented". In approximately 40 seasons, the Spartans have lost only 18 times to the Wolverines. During a ten-year stretch this century (2003 to 2013), Michigan State went 21-1 against Michigan. Do you remember hearing about this streak of dominance from the mainstream sports media? If anything like this happened in hockey, would you have heard about it by now?

The Spartans lead the all-time series 65-18.

The longest UM win-streak over MSU was four games.

The longest MSU win-streak over UM was 12 games.

Sounds like a little more coverage would be appropriate, eh? So let's do it. We'll review the last 25 games between the two teams, and summarize the program results over the last ten seasons.

THE LAST 25 GAMES BETWEEN MSU AND UM

• (2-3-16):  MSU by 21 points
• (3-5-15):  MSU by 20 points
• (2-5-15):  UM by 13 points
• (1-4-15):  UM by 9 points
• (3-7-14):  MSU by 3 points
• (1-12-14) MSU by 7 points
• (3-08-13) MSU by 16 points
• (2-16-13) UM by 1 point
• (2-04-13) MSU by 15 points
• (2-05-12) MSU by 2 points
• (1-04-12) MSU by 5 points
• (2-13-11) MSU by 13 points
• (1-09-11) MSU by 7 points
• (3-05-10) MSU by 11 points
• (2-11-10) MSU by 5 points
• (12-31-09) MSU by 15 points
• (2-19-09) MSU by 25 points
• (1-15-09) MSU by 4 points
• (3-30-08) MSU by 5 points (OT)
• (1-31-08) MSU by 3 points
• (1-13-08) UM by 9 points
• (1-18-07) MSU by 18 points
• (2-23-06) MSU by 26 points
• (1-01-06) MSU by 33 points
• (2-23-05) MSU by 43 points

21-4 MSU (by 265 points)

MSU average winning margin of 14 points
UM  average winning margin of 8 points

LAST FIVE SEASONS - PROGRAM SUMMARIES

MICHIGAN STATE - 2007 to 2016

• 2007:  24-9, Third place, NCAA second round
• 2008:  23-14, Fifth place, WNIT
• 2009:  22-11, Second place, NCAA Sweet Sixteen
• 2010:  23-10, Second place, NCAA second round
• 2011:  27-6, First place, NCAA second round
• 2012:  20-12, Second place, NCAA first round
• 2013:  25-9, Third place, NCAA second round
• 2014:  23-10, First Place, NCAA second round
• 2015:  16-15, Ninth place, no tournament
• 2016:  25-9, Third place, NCAA second round

MSU TEN YEAR TOTAL = 228-105 (.685)

Eight NCAA Tournaments (eight wins)

Two B1G Conference Championships

MICHIGAN - 2007 to 2016

• 2007:  10-20, Tenth place, no tournament
• 2008:  19-14, Seventh place, WNIT
• 2009:  10-20, Tenth place, no tournament
• 2010:  21-14, Sixth place, WNIT
• 2011:  17-13, Third place, WNIT
• 2012:  20-12, Seventh place, NCAA first round
• 2013:  22-11, Fifth place, NCAA second round
• 2014:  20-14, Sixth place, WNIT
• 2015:  20-15, Eighth place, WNIT
• 2016:  21-14, Seventh place, WNIT

UM TEN YEAR TOTAL = 180-147 (.551)

Two NCAA Tournaments (one win)

(Only two B1G finishes better than fifth-place)

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