http://www.yardbarker.com/college_basketball/players/jacob_pettway/253267 Recent articles about Jacob Pettway en-us EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Michigan State gave its players another opportunity to relish. Keith Appling matched a career high with 25 points to lead the 19th-ranked Spartans to a 92-56 win over Tuskegee on Saturday night at Jenison Field House, where the "Game of Change" was held during the 1963 NCAA tournament. Michigan State opened the season on an Air Force base in Germany, a year after playing on an aircraft carrier in San Diego. The Spartans (9-2) played their first game in their former home for hoops since 1989 -- a decade after Magic Johnson called it his home court during a championship season -- to celebrate an historic event staged in the same venue nearly a half-century ago. "We've done a lot of neat things, but this kind of tops it all," Appling said. "I'm glad we were able to be a part of it." Mississippi State, whose team had only white players at the time, defied a state prohibition against playing integrated teams to face Loyola of Chicago, which had Sat, 15 Dec 2012 23:51:29 -0500 http://network.yardbarker.com/college_basketball/article_external/no_19_spartans_roll_at_jenison/12450985 http://network.yardbarker.com/college_basketball/article_external/no_19_spartans_roll_at_jenison/12450985 No. 19 Spartans roll at Jenison http://www.yardbarker.com/college_basketball/articles/no_19_spartans_roll_at_jenison/12450985 http://www.yardbarker.com/images/yb_logo_square_grey.png