Detroit — There’s a whole lot of respect between Tom Izzo and Greg Kampe, who sat side by side in the rain the other day at the Little Caesars Arena construction site, Kampe holding the umbrella for both of them as sprinkling rain came down.
The Dec. 16 game at LCA — part of a doubleheader, that includes Michigan and Detroit Mercy — will be the 16th meeting, and the 12th in 13 years, between Michigan State and Oakland, all in the Izzo era.
Michigan State is 15-0 in the series.
“We haven’t lost to them,” Izzo said, before emphatically adding, “Yet!