1975–76 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team explained

Mode:	Basketball
Year:	1975–76
Team:	Michigan State Spartans
Conference:	Big Ten Conference
Short Conf:	Big Ten
Record:	14–13
Conf Record:	10–8
Asst Coach2:	Pat Miller
Asst Coach3:	Vernon Payne
Hc Year:	7th
Captain:	Terry Furlow

The 1975–76 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team represented Michigan State University in the 1975–76 NCAA Division I men's basketball season as members of the Big Ten Conference. They played their home games at Jenison Fieldhouse in East Lansing, Michigan and were coached by Gus Ganakas in his seventh and final year as head coach of the Spartans. MSU finished the season 14–13, 10–8 in Big Ten play to finish in fourth place.

Ganakas was fired as head coach after the season due, in part to the walk-out of black players in 1975 and as part of an athletic department purge.^[1] Ganakas would continue as an assistant athletic director for MSU until 1998.^[2]

Previous season

The Spartans finished the 1974–75 season 17–9, 10–8 in Big Ten play to finish in fifth place.

Roster and statistics

-	1975–76 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team
No	Name	Pos	Year	Height	Pts	Reb	Ast
12	Milt Wiley	G	FR	5–11	1.6	0.3	1.0
15	Kevin Vandenbussche	G	JR	6–4	0.2	0.2	0.4
21	Paul Stoll	G	JR	6–2	0.0	0.0	0.0
22	Lovelle Rivers	C	SR	6–5	1.3	2.8	0.3
23	Benny White	G	SR	5–9	6.3	1.9	3.9
24	Cedric Milton	C	SR	6–9	6.5	5.3	0.8
25	Terry Furlow	F	SR	6–5	29.4	7.7	3.2
32	Greg Kelser	F	FR	6–6	11.7	9.5	1.2
33	Edgar Wilson	F	JR	6–5	7.7	5.4	1.6
34	Ricky Nash	F	SO	6–4	0.9	1.3	0.1
41	Dan Riewald	F	JR	6–5	1.5	1.2	0.3
42	Tanya Webb	F	FR	6–8	1.5	1.1	0.0
44	Robert Chapman	G	JR	6–2	14.6	3.5	2.0
45	David Jordan	F	SO	6–5
52	Patrick Holewinski	C	SR	6–10	0.6	0.0	0.3

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Schedule and results

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Awards and honors

• Terry Furlow – All-Big Ten First Team
• Terry Furlow – Big Ten Scoring Champion (31.0 ppg in-conference)

Notes and References

1. News: Former Michigan State basketball coach Jud Heathcote dies at age 90. Detroit Free Press. 2017-08-29. en.
2. Web site: Michigan State Radio Spartan Sports Network Big Ten Radio. www.spartansportsnetwork.com. en. 2017-02-21. 2017-08-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20170829204345/http://www.spartansportsnetwork.com/modules.php?name=Pages&sp_id=194&m1=5&m2=16&mr=t. dead.
3. Web site: 1975–76 Michigan State Spartans Roster and Stats College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com. College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com. 2017-02-21.
4. Web site: 16-17 Michigan State Spartans . . April 16, 2022 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20190415035346/http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/msu/sports/m-baskbl/auto_pdf/2016-17/misc_non_event/16-17MediaGuide.pdf . April 15, 2019.