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We are creeping closer and closer to the college basketball season, and there’s still one big question Spartan fans want answered: who will MSU play this season? Well, we could finally be getting some answers “in a couple of days.”
Michigan State men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo met with reporters on Thursday via Zoom to discuss a number of items related to his Spartans — one of which is the still to be determined schedule. Izzo said there still is no update at this point but that he is hopeful the schedule will be figured out in the next few days. He also hinted at who potentially will be on the schedule — Duke, Notre Dame and other in-state foes.
See a pair of tweets from Brendan Quinn’s of The Athletic below:
Izzo says it looks like the Duke game will still be played “somewhere,” and adds that MSU has been in contact with Notre Dame for a possible game, and some in-state game options.
— Brendan Quinn (@BFQuinn) October 29, 2020
This is all exciting to hear after the entire projected MSU non-conference schedule was thrown out the window in the past few weeks with the collapse of the Orlando bubble plan. That news broke earlier this week.
MSU had previously been pegged to play four games in Orlando — three games in the Orlando Invitational and Duke in the Champions Classic. From what Izzo said today, it appears the Duke match-up is still going to be played just in a new location.
At this point, it’s hard to truly project who the Spartans will battle in non-conference play, but we know there will still be five spots to fill should the Champions Classic and ACC-Big Ten Challenge go on as expected. We are also still waiting for the release of the Big Ten conference schedule.
The first day games can be played this season is Nov. 25 so we should hopefully get the final schedule announced soon.
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