Michigan State Basketball: Top 10 moments from 2019-20 season

EAST LANSING, MI – JANUARY 17: Cassius Winston #5 of the Michigan State Spartans celebrates with his teammate Rocket Watts #2 after receiving a commemorative ball from Former Spartan Mateen Cleaves for breaking his Big Ten assist record after the game against the Wisconsin Badgers at the Breslin Center on January 17, 2020 in East Lansing, Michigan. (Photo by Rey Del Rio/Getty Images)

4. Cassius Winston’s record-breaking assist

With Mateen Cleaves in attendance, Cassius Winston picked up the biggest assist of his career, an alley-oop to Xavier Tillman to pass the former Spartan star as the Big Ten’s all-time leader.

Winston didn’t have his best game against the Badgers, but the Spartans got a comfortable win and Cassius got to celebrate afterwards with his team.

Check out the record-breaking assist here to put Michigan State up 23 in the second half against a team that eventually split the Big Ten title with the Spartans.

Most. Assists. In. B1G. History.

Cassius Winston passed Mateen Cleaves on the all-time list last night, and here's the record-breaker. pic.twitter.com/tAsSeLNkYZ
— Big Ten Network (@BigTenNetwork) January 18, 2020

Winston’s season was far from over as he would go on to have plenty of memorable moments, but this one is easily in the top five. He broke a record that didn’t seem touchable for years and existed since 2000. It felt like the Spartans were destined for big things and Cassius would reach 2,000 points with over 900 assists, but no postseason play due to COVID-19 changed that.