The Big Ten women’s basketball race will encounter a few huge plot points the next five days, with USC benefiting one way or another.

As the Michigan State women’s basketball team approaches the halfway point of the Big Ten schedule, it is in the thick of the conference race. The Spartans, who are just two losses behind USC and UCLA in the standings,

Michigan State, which opened the season unranked, remains the lone team unbeaten in Big Ten play. Its next game is against Rutgers (10-8, 3-4) on Saturday (1:30 p.m., CBS) at Madi

PM, the No. 21-ranked Michigan State women’s basketball team will host Penn State at the Breslin Center in what promises to be an solid (if not frozen solid) Big Ten matchup. With MSU sitting at 14-4 overall and 5-2 in the conference,