REPORT: MSU Basketball to play at Duke in Champions Classic

Michigan State will head to Cameron Indoor Stadium to battle the Duke Blue Devils as part of this year’s Champions Classic.

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For the first time ever, the Champions Classic will take place in two different venues, with one of the games being played on a team’s home floor. And Spartan fans aren’t going to be happy about it.

Michigan State will head to Cameron Indoor Stadium to battle the Duke Blue Devils as part of this year’s Champions Classic, Matt Norlander of CBS Sports reported on Friday. The game will take place on Dec. 1, and as I said before, will be the first true road game to take place in this annual event.

Kansas and Kentucky will square off at a neutral site (Indianapolis) as the second game of this year’s Champions Classic. Tip-off times haven’t been determined yet, according to Norlander.

Norlander followed up his first tweet by stating there will be no fans in attendance at Cameron, and that the decision to not host both games in Indy was because of the different COVID protocols in place between the Big Ten/ACC and Big 12/SEC.

Last week, we found out about a handful of MSU basketball match-ups, including a potential season-opening tilt against Notre Dame and the ACC-Big Ten Challenge against Virginia. We are still waiting on the rest of the Spartans’ schedule, but here’s what we know as of right now:

  • Nov. 28 – Notre Dame (home non-conference game)
  • Dec. 1 – at Duke (part of Champions Classic)
  • Dec. 9 – at Virginia (part of ACC-Big Ten Challenge)

Hopefully, we will have the rest of the Spartans’ schedule soon but for now, it appears MSU will have at least three tough non-conference match-ups.

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