{"id":487170,"date":"2026-02-18T04:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T04:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/487170\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T04:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T04:21:08","slug":"mens-basketball-falls-at-no-15-michigan-state-82-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/487170\/","title":{"rendered":"Men’s Basketball Falls at No. 15 Michigan State, 82-59"},"content":{"rendered":"

EAST LANSING, Mich. \u2013 The UCLA men’s basketball team fell at No. 15 Michigan State, 82-59, in a Big Ten Conference game at the Breslin Center on the campus of Michigan State on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Michigan State (21-5, 11-4 Big Ten) outscored the Bruins by a 39-36 margin in the second half after having led 43-23 at the intermission. Four players for the Spartans scored in double figures, led by Jeremy Fears Jr. and Coen Carr with 16 points each.<\/p>\n

MSU made 14 three-pointers and shot 53 percent overall from the field (29-for-55), as UCLA dropped its second straight game. The Bruins shot 37 percent from the field (21-for-57), and recorded eight 3-pointers on the night.<\/p>\n

UCLA (17-9, 9-6 Big Ten) trailed by a 50-32 margin with 15:41 to play after Tyler Bilodeau<\/a> scored seven quick points before Michigan State ran out 82-59 winners on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Bilodeau opened the second half strongly for the Bruins, connecting on four of his first five shots in the second half. Bilodeau finished the night with 22 points, including three 3-pointers.<\/p>\n

In addition to Bilodeau’s game-high 22 points, Skyy Clark<\/a> added 12 points for UCLA.<\/p>\n

UCLA trailed 43-23 at the halftime break.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Michigan State utilized a 20-3 run to take a 27-12 lead with just over 8 minutes to play in the opening half. The Spartans then took a 43-23 lead at the halftime break.<\/p>\n

In the opening half, the Spartans shot 58% from the field and limited the Bruins to 32% from the field. Fears Jr. led all scorers with 11 points and three 3-pointers in the opening half.<\/p>\n

The Bruins will return to Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom Financial on Saturday evening. UCLA will host No. 10 Illinois on Saturday at 5 pm PT, with the game being broadcast nationally on FOX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAST LANSING, Mich. \u2013 The UCLA men’s basketball team fell at No. 15 Michigan State, 82-59, in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-487170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}