{"id":146010,"date":"2025-09-10T07:30:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T07:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/146010\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T07:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T07:30:18","slug":"michigan-state-basketball-nonconference-schedule-2025-26-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/146010\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan State basketball nonconference schedule 2025-26 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first phase of Tom Izzo\u2019s 31st season looks much like many of his previous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/sports\/spartans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michigan State basketball<\/a> nonconference schedules.<\/p>\n<p>Some blueblood opponents. Some local flavor. Some old faces in new places.<\/p>\n<p>And some big-time visitors to Breslin Center this winter.<\/p>\n<p>The Spartans will open with a pair of exhibition games, the first on Oct. 23 against Bowling Green, where former Izzo point guard Tum-Tum Nairn is the associate head coach. They\u2019ll then play a rare road exhibition game against 2023 and 2024 national champion Connecticut on Oct. 28 in Storrs, Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>MSU tips off the regular season with three straight home games, opening against Colgate on Nov. 3 before a Nov. 8 visit from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/sports\/college\/michigan-state\/spartans\/2025\/08\/27\/michigan-state-basketball-schedule-game-vs-arkansas\/85852993007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Calipari and Arkansas<\/a> that is part of a home-and-home series. The Spartans return the visit to Fayetteville next season.<\/p>\n<p>Other major highlights include the Nov. 18 game against Kentucky in the Champions Classic at Madison Square Garden in New York. MSU will face North Carolina on Nov. 27 in Florida as part of the Fort Myers Tip-Off. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/sports\/college\/michigan-state\/spartans\/2025\/06\/17\/michigan-state-spartans-basketball-to-host-duke-blue-devils-at-breslin-center-on-dec-6\/84242532007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Spartans welcome Duke<\/a> to Breslin on Dec. 6, which is a return game for moving the 2020 Champions Classic from a neutral site to the fan-free Blue Devils\u2019 Cameron Indoor Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Izzo will face two in-state foes in the nonconference slate, starting with a Nov. 21 visit from Detroit and coach Mark Montgomery, a former MSU point guard and Izzo assistant. The Spartans also will head to Little Caesars Arena to face his good friend Greg Kampe and Oakland on Dec. 20, the 13th straight year the two programs will face each other and their fourth time at LCA.<\/p>\n<p>Four of the 11 opponents played in the NCAA tournament last season, while MSU went 30-7 and advanced to Izzo\u2019s 11th Elite Eight after winning his record-tying 11th regular-season Big Ten title.<\/p>\n<p>Times and television for games, along with the 20-game Big Ten schedule, will be announced at a later date. Here is the complete list of MSU\u2019s nonconference opponents (*exhibition game).<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 23 Bowling Green*<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 28 at Connecticut*<\/p>\n<p>Nov. 3 Colgate<\/p>\n<p>Nov. 8 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/ncaab\/teams\/arkansas-razorbacks\/1293\/\" data-autotag=\"0f5b9e9d-d445-44f6-8020-bfcce1adaaa7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arkansas<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nov. 13 San Jose State<\/p>\n<p>Nov. 18 vs. Kentucky (Champions Classic, New York)<\/p>\n<p>Nov. 21 Detroit<\/p>\n<p>Nov. 25 East Carolina (Fort Myers Tip-Off in Fort Myers, Florida)<\/p>\n<p>Nov. 27 East Carolina (Fort Myers Tip-Off in Fort Myers, Florida)<\/p>\n<p>Dec. 6 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/ncaab\/teams\/duke-blue-devils\/1388\/\" data-autotag=\"d9e0b712-2f57-4d7c-998e-25a7ac4fbc0d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Duke<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dec. 16 Toledo<\/p>\n<p>Dec. 20 vs. Oakland (Little Caesars Arena, Detroit)<\/p>\n<p>Dec. 29 Cornell<\/p>\n<p>Contact Chris Solari: <a href=\"mailto:csolari@freepress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">csolari@freepress.com<\/a>. Follow him\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrissolari\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@chrissolari<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Subscribe to the &#8220;Spartan Speak&#8221; podcast for new episodes on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/spartan-speak\/id1031437107\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/1tGBBl1rEcS2ZxAywoLmGS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> or anywhere you listen to podcasts.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first phase of Tom Izzo\u2019s 31st season looks much like many of his previous Michigan State basketball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[15994,8897,90519,402,1979,15998,574,90516,1976,4044,2662,10725,16708,6381,6272,68341,19928,2843,90520,28498,59237,15995,90515,13913,1089,59235,2663,6673,1303,21975,90517,7560,398,400,15996,401,3,13470,13471,5573,16683,7702,90518,32682,99,2415,13109,8462,23876,16509,13692,8596,6671],"class_list":["post-146010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-15994","tag-arkansas","tag-arkansas-razorbacks-mens-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-big","tag-big-10-hub","tag-blue","tag-calipari","tag-college","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-colleges","tag-colleges-u0026-universities","tag-conference","tag-cornell","tag-cornell-university","tag-devils","tag-duke","tag-duke-blue-devils-mens-basketball","tag-greg","tag-greg-kampe","tag-hub","tag-izzo","tag-john","tag-john-calipari","tag-kampe","tag-mens-college-basketball","tag-mens","tag-michigan","tag-michigan-state-basketball","tag-michigan-state-sports","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaa-big-ten-conference","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-positive","tag-positive","tag-razorbacks","tag-sec","tag-sec-conference-mens-basketball","tag-spartans","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-state","tag-ten","tag-tom","tag-tom-izzo","tag-u0026","tag-universities","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}