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REPORT: MSU Basketball to host Western Michigan on Dec. 6

Slowly but surely we are seeing the MSU basketball schedule pieced together, with another non-conference match-up being reported on Thursday

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Slowly but surely we are seeing the Michigan State basketball schedule pieced together, with another non-conference match-up being reported on Thursday afternoon.

Adam Zagoria — a freelance sports journalist for The New York Times — has reported that Michigan State will host in-state foe Western Michigan on Dec. 6 at the Breslin Center. He also reconfirmed an earlier report that the Spartans will play Notre Dame on Nov. 28 — which is looking like the season-opener for MSU.

Michigan State topped Western Michigan last season, 95-62, in the two schools’ first match-up since 1998. MSU is 20-4 all-time against the Broncos.

It was expected that Michigan State would play some regionally close opponents to fill out the rest of the non-conference schedule, so the Broncos traveling to East Lansing makes a lot of sense. Oakland University is another in-state team that many expect to land on the Spartans’ schedule this year.

Head coach Tom Izzo virtually met with the media on Wednesday and hinted at the entire schedule being finalized in the next few days. It was also reported last week by Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports that the Big Ten planned on revealing the conference schedule this week, however, there’s been no announcement yet by the league.

Here’s what we currently know about the MSU 2020-21 schedule based on reports and what Michigan State has already confirmed:

  • Nov. 28 – Notre Dame (home non-conference game)
  • Dec. 1 – at Duke (part of Champions Classic)
  • Dec. 6 – Western Michigan (home non-conference game)
  • Dec. 9 – at Virginia (part of ACC-Big Ten Challenge)

Hopefully, we’ll have the rest of the schedule by this time next week, but at the very least we have a snapshot of the non-conference slate.

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