2019 – 20 Michigan State Spartans men 's basketball team will represent Michigan State University in the 2019 – 20 NCAA Division I men 's basketball season . The Spartans will be led by 25th-year head coach Tom Izzo and will play their home games at Breslin Center in East Lansing , Michigan as members of the Big Ten Conference . The Spartans finished the 2018 – 19 season 32 – 7 , 16 – 4 to earn a share of the Big Ten championship . As the No. 1 seed in the Big Ten Tournament , they defeated Ohio State , Wisconsin , and Michigan ( for the third time on the season ) , to win the B1G Tournament Championship . The win over Ohio State on March 15 , 2019 marked head coach Tom Izzo 's 600th career win . The Tournament win marked the school 's sixth Tournament Championship , the most in the Big Ten . As a result of the Tournament victory , the Spartans received the conference 's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament , where they were controversially assigned a No. 2 seed , and placed in the East Region with the No. 1 overall seed , the Duke Blue Devils . In the 1st round of the 2019 NCAA tournament , MSU defeated No. 15-seeded Bradley in Des Moines , two days before destroying No. 10-seeded Minnesota to advance to the team 's first Sweet Sixteen since 2015 . In the Regional Semi-finals , played in Washington D.C. , the Spartans defeated No. 3-seeded LSU to advance to the Elite Eight . Two days later , they defeated the overall No. 1-seeded Duke to win the East Region , thereby advancing to the school 's 10th Final Four and eighth under head coach , Tom Izzo . In the National Semifinals , hosted in Minneapolis , Michigan State lost to the No. 3-seeded Texas Tech Red Raiders , 61-51
Big Ten Tournament
2019 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
2019–20 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team