Spartans to reportedly play home-and-home series with Arkansas starting this year
Spartans to reportedly play home-and-home series with Arkansas starting this year
Michigan State basketball has reportedly added another monster non-conference game to its slate.
The Spartans will reportedly host Arkansas in a non-conference matchup at the Breslin Center this upcoming season, according to Josh Bertaccini of Team Bee Media. This will be the first of a two-game home-and-home series between the Spartans and Razorbacks, with Michigan State heading to Fayetteville, Ark. the following season.
Michigan State is already set to host Duke in another monster home non-conference game this upcoming season, and also has marquee neutral site matchups with Kentucky and North Carolina scheduled. Michigan State always plays a tough non-conference schedule, but this will be arguably one of the toughest ones we've seen in the last few years.
Arkansas -- led by one of the best coaches of all time in John Calipari -- is coming off a Sweet 16 run this past season. The Razorbacks are considered to be a preseason top 25 team and ranks similar to the Spartans in the many way-too-early polls for next year.
It's very exciting any time you can play a big-time non-conference game. But it's even bigger when you get to play that game at home so this news from Bertaccini is great to see. I'm personally pumped about it and can't wait for this next basketball season to tip off with many fun non-conference games ahead of us.
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