Grace VanSlooten scored 15 points and led a fourth-quarter charge that lifted No. 23 Michigan State to a 73-58 win over Minnesota on Saturday as both teams ended the regular season.

Grace VanSlooten had 15 points and eight rebounds as No. 23 Michigan State pulled away from Minnesota in the fourth quarter of a 73-58 win on Saturday afternoon in East Lansing, Mich. Julia Ayrault notched 13 points and nine boards for Michigan State (21-8,

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The Gophers finished 13th in the Big Ten, earning one of the league’s 15 conference tournament spots in Indianapolis. They will likely start with a 2:30 p.m. tip against the No. 12 seed, probably Washington (17-12, 8-9), which whizzed past them last Wednesday at Williams Arena, 72-62.

And Ayrault and the rest of the Michigan State women's basketball team fed off that energy down the stretch. That shot started a big fourth quarter run that helped propel the No. 22-ranked Spartans to a 73-58 victory over Minnesota on Saturday afternoon in their final regular-season home game.

With just under eight minutes to go in a defensive-minded game at Michigan State on Saturday afternoon, Grace Grochoski drove for a score, putting the Gophers women’s basketball team up four points, and she was fouled.