EAST LANSING -- For the second straight year, Michigan State will face the No. 1 team in the country at the Champions Classic.
For the sixth straight year, the Spartans will face a top-four opponent in the annual early season event.
But don't think playing the sport's best teams on the sport's biggest early November stage is becoming old hat for the Spartans.
"It doesn't get any better than this," an excited Spartans coach Tom Izzo said on Monday. "These are sleepless nights. They don't get old, either. Not to me anyway."
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