Where: Breslin Center, East Lansing, Michigan

When: Friday, Nov. 18, 2022 at 8:00 p.m. ET

TV/Streaming (within the U.S.): FS1

Michigan State (2-1), No. 18 (Kenpom)

What a statement the Spartans made in their double-overtime win over Kentucky on Tuesday night in Indianapolis. In a game where none of the Spartan guards played particularly well (outside of Tyson Walker’s late-flourish), it was the Spartan front-court that won the game against the veritable fleet of prime-time athletes the Wildcats committed to the fray.

The excellence on display in that gritty win came from every part of the team: Tom Izzo coached his best individual game since Cassius Winston’s senior season, the Spartan defense maintained its intensity and the high standard it set in the first two games for 50 minutes, and, most importantly, every big punch the Wildcats landed, the Spartans countered with a punch of their own — a championship-level of determination and composure exuded from every member of the team, even when they made individual errors or missed shots.