The Michigan State Spartans basketball team is one of the well known athletic teams that symbolize Michigan State University. The Universities sports program count twenty two kinds of sports teams, mainly of which were founded around the year 1885. The mascot of the basketball team and every other varsity teams is a Spartan warrior called Sparty, while the official school colors are green and white. Michigan State University is exclusive in stipulations of being the only NCAA Division I Athletic program, which has numerous National Championships in both football and basketball.

Kalin Lucas scored all 10 of his points in the second half and Raymar Morgan made the go-ahead free throws with only 5 minutes left, lifting No. 7 Michigan State over Illinois 63-57 on the week's Saturday, the Spartans' 11th consecutive win and 28th in a row at home. Michigan State (15-2, 5-0 Big Ten) hasn't lost at the Breslin Center since 2007. Alex Legion scored a season-high 15 points for the Fighting Illini (15-3, 3-2). Illinois led by seven points at halftime and was in control until Lucas and Morgan led a late run.

Lucas made a shot and Morgan connected on two free throws to start a 9-0 run that put the Spartans ahead by five with just under 4 minutes left. The Illinois, whose only loss in their previous 10 games was at Michigan early this month, had a chance to move into a first-place tie with Michigan State and Minnesota. The Illini shocked Lucas in the first half, blocking the player who was scoring a Big Ten-best 19 points in conference games and held Morgan scoreless for the first 18 minutes of the game.

Morgan ended up with eight points, scoring half of them during the most important run of the game, after averaging a total of about 15-plus points this season. Calvin Brock scored 13 points and Mike Davis had 10 for the Illini. Lucas missed all five shots without a score in the first half and finished 3-of-13 from the field. Michigan State shot 41 percent in the first half and had 14 turnovers, leading to a 34-27 deficit.

In the defense zone, every player is liable for protecting a certain area of the court around the basket in which the opposing team is shooting. All these strategies did not show the basketball is one of the easy games. Therefore winning from the opposite team is quite tough which needs a much concern about the practice. Practice is the key for win. There is an official's call the fouls, penalizing the offending team either by awarding the ball off limits to its opponents or by awarding free of charge throws means unimpeded shots at the basket from the free throw line. If a player is fouled while performing of shelling and misses the basket, he receives two free throws. If he is fouled in the act of hitting and makes the basket, the score counts and he gets an additional free throw which called a three-point play if he makes the extra basket. All these fouls and constraints in game also increase players attention and they have to keep all these in mind throughout the whole game and make their team saves from all these.