{"id":103562,"date":"2025-12-21T07:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T07:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/103562\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T07:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T07:50:11","slug":"no-9-michigan-state-basketball-heads-to-the-christmas-break-with-a-79-70-win-over-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/103562\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 9 Michigan State basketball heads to the Christmas break with a 79-70 win over Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">DETROIT. (WILX) &#8211; Junior forward <a href=\"https:\/\/msuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/coen-carr\/13670\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coen Carr<\/a> scored a career-high 22 points, including 16 in the second half, as No. 9 Michigan State held off Oakland, 79-70, in front of 15,789 at Little Caesars Arena in downtown Detroit on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Junior forward Coen Carr scored a career-high 22 points, including 16 in the second half, as No. 9 Michigan State held off Oakland, 79-70.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Carr his 8-of-13 shots from the floor and 5-of-7 from the free throw line, while grabbing seven rebounds, adding two assists and two blocked shots.Senior forward Jaxon Kohler had seventh double-double of the season, and third-straight, with 13 points and a game-high 13 rebounds, senior center <a href=\"https:\/\/msuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/carson-cooper\/13626\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carson Cooper<\/a> added 15 points, five rebounds and three blocked shots and sophomore guard Kur Teng added 10 points and five assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Records<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Michigan State improves to 11-1 overall, while Oakland falls to 6-7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"\" rel=\"\">Up Next<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Michigan State takes a break for the Christmas holiday and returns to the Breslin Center on Monday, Dec. 29, hosting Cornell at the Breslin Center (7 p.m., FS1).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Subscribe to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilx.com\/newsletter\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wilx.com\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\">News 10 newsletter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@wilxtv\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@wilxtv\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube page<\/a> to receive the latest local news and weather. Looking to hire people, or grow your business through advertising? Gray Digital Media is your one-stop marketing solution. <a href=\"https:\/\/wilx.graydigitalmedia.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Learn<\/a> more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WILX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT. (WILX) &#8211; Junior forward Coen Carr scored a career-high 22 points, including 16 in the second half,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2454,794,14675,26639,56248,23,26767,32008,33177,143,145,144,1001],"class_list":{"0":"post-103562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-golden","11":"tag-grizzlies","12":"tag-little-caesars-arena","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-mens","15":"tag-michigan-state","16":"tag-msu","17":"tag-oakland","18":"tag-oakland-headlines","19":"tag-oakland-news","20":"tag-spartans"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}