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Michigan State heads to Maryland looking for first road win of season
EAST LANSING – Does Michigan State have issues on the road?
It’s January 21 and the Spartans have yet to win a game outside of the state of Michigan: they’re 0-3 in true road games and 1-2 in neutral-site games, with their lone win coming against Baylor at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit.
Yet Tom Izzo doesn’t think the road has been the problem in those losses.
“We’ve got this ‘You haven’t won on the road.’ We haven’t won on the road because we’re not good enough to win on the road,” Izzo said after his team’s last road loss, to Illinois on Jan. 11. “It’s not because of the road.”
Michigan State will likely find out whether that’s true or not during a pair of road games this week, at Maryland on Sunday (noon, CBS) and at No. 11 Wisconsin on Friday.
Michigan State is far from alone in the Big Ten in having a lackluster road record. Through Friday’s games, Big Ten home teams had own 73 percent of conference games, on pace to be the highest figure in decades. That percentage includes the conference’s top teams: Purdue is just 2-2 in road games, and Wisconsin dropped a game at Penn State last week.
The Spartans’ last road loss was by three to a then-top-10 Illinois team. It’s also lost away from home to Duke and Arizona, who are also both ranked. Izzo defended most of those performances as strong, just not strong enough.
“We’re not losing games because we can’t win on the road,” Izzo said. “We’re losing games because we didn’t play well enough on the road. There’s a big difference.”
But if the Spartans are going to rally in the last 13 games of the regular season and make the NCAA Tournament after an 11-7 start, road wins will be necessary.
Maryland started the season 1-4 with losses to Davidson and UAB, but a week ago recorded its best win of the season, on the road at Illinois.
Fifth-year Terrapins guard Jahir Young has averaged 26.5 points per game in his team’s last six games and is coming off of a 36-point performance on Wednesday at Northwestern in a loss.
But Maryland (11-7, 3-4) is also the worst 3-point shooting team in the Big Ten at just 27.9 percent.
Michigan State has won two straight entering the game, over Rutgers and Minnesota – although Izzo lamented after the team’s Minnesota win on Thursday that his team didn’t “progress” in a game that was tied with four minutes left before the Spartans won by 10.
“We didn’t do some things early and that’s disappointing and I will stay disappointed in it and be happy about the win,” Izzo said.
The effort, which included allowing Minnesota to shoot better than 50 percent from the field for much of the game, likely won’t be sufficient when the Spartans head on the road and look to break through.
“I’m going right to work on Maryland which is a big road game that we have next,” Izzo said.
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Md. Gov. Moore touts public safety funding increase, even with crime continuing to drop – WTOP News
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore noted the continuing decrease in crime across the state and shared a proposal to spend $124.1 million on public safety in the next fiscal year budget.
Executive Aisha Braveboy and Police Chief George Nader(WTOP/John Domen)
Maryland lawmakers return to Annapolis next week, and plugging a roughly $1 billion budget hole will be one of many items on their agenda as the 2026 session gets underway.
This week, Gov. Wes Moore has been touting parts of the budget he’ll be unveiling, to go with legislation he intends to champion in Annapolis.
On Thursday, he stood in front of a huge gathering of police, federal law enforcement and prosecutors at the Maryland State Police Barracks in College Park to talk about the continuing decrease in crime and share a proposal to spend $124.1 million on public safety in the next budget.
“That is the highest level of funding in our state’s history, and a $2.3 million increase over last year’s budget,” Moore said. “These are real resources for local police departments all throughout the state of Maryland.”
He said the funding will support overtime patrolling and new equipment that “officers need to make sure they are doing their job safely and that they can get home to their families.”
Moore also took issue with the premise, often posed to Democrats, that you have to choose between siding with law enforcement or siding with “the community,” arguing that he does both “unapologetically.” He also promised that his plan for public safety is both urgent and strategic.
“This is backed by data and built on three core pillars,” Moore said. “Provide the resources and the support that law enforcement needs; build stronger, more vibrant communities that leave no one behind; and coordinate all aspects of government and community to make sure that our streets are safer.”
As he enters the final year of his term, Moore highlighted a 25% reduction in homicides around the state, to a number he said is the lowest in 40 years. He also touted a 50% violent crime reduction and a sharp drop in non-fatal shootings.
“This is not trends or vibes. It happens because we made smart investments, and it happened because we chose to do something really unique — work together,” Moore said. “We are standing here coordinated, bipartisan, nonpartisan, knowing that community safety does not have a partisan bend and protecting our neighbors does not have a political affiliation.”
At the same time, Moore said he wasn’t taking a victory lap about the heartening trends in crime just yet.
“We are making progress, yes, but we will not rest until everybody and all of our communities feel safe,” he said. “Too often, false choices will dominate the public safety debate. Do we want to hold criminals accountable, or do we want to focus on rehabilitation? We’re told to pick a side without understanding that’s not how people live.”
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