No. 11 Michigan State Hosts No. 10 Duke on Tuesday Night

The No. 11-ranked Michigan State men's basketball team returns home on Tuesday night, Dec.3, hosting No. 10 Duke at the Breslin Center. The game tips off at 9:30 p.m. (ET).

The Duke-MSU game will air live on ESPN, with Dan Shulman and Jay Bilas calling all of the action along with sideline reporter Allison Williams. The Spartan Sports Network radio call can be heard on one of 38 affiliates and on the web at SpartanSportsNetwork.com, with Will Tieman handling the play-by-play and Matt Steigenga serving as the color analyst. The game can also be heard on Sirius 138, XM 196 and Internet 958.

Records
Michigan State enters the game with a 5-2 overall record, while Duke enters with a 7-1 record.

MSU to Retire Draymond Green Jersey's Tuesday Night

The Michigan State men's basketball program will retire Draymond Green's No. 23 on Tuesday, Dec. 3 when the Spartans host Duke.
Green, who played in two Final Fours and won three Big Ten regular-season championships, earned National Player of the Year honors in 2012 in addition to being a consensus First-Team All-American and Big Ten Player of the Year.
Green is one of just four players in Michigan State history to earn National Player of the Year honors, having been selected by the National Association of Basketball Coaches in 2012.
A consensus First-Team All-American, he also collected Big Ten Player of the Year and Big Ten Tournament Most Outstanding Player accolades in 2012.
In addition to First-Team All-Big Ten honors in 2012, he was a second-team honoree in 2011 and 2010, while also being named Big Ten Sixth Man of the Year in 2010.
As a senior in 2012, he also earned a spot on the Big Ten All-Defensive Team.

Big Ten/ACC Challenge History

Michigan State is 8-11 in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge and had its 2001 game against Virginia in Richmond cancelled due to unplayable wet floor conditions
After dropping the first 10 challenges, the Big Ten has captured six of the last 10, with the conferences splitting the 2012 and 2013 Challenges, 6-6.
The Spartans have split their last four Big Ten/ACC Challenge games, with wins over Notre Dame (2017) and Louisville (2015).
Last year, MSU lost in overtime at Louisville, 82-78

About the Spartans

Senior guard Cassius Winston (Detroit, Mich./University of Detroit Jesuit) leads MSU, and ranks seventh in the Big Ten, in scoring, averaging 17.9 points per game … Winston is also fourth in the league in assists, averaging 6.0 per game.
Junior forward Xavier Tillman (Grand Rapids, Mich./GR Christian) is second on the team with 12.3 points per game and tops the team, and is third in the Big Ten, with 10.3 rebounds per game, while adding 2.3 assists per game
Sophomore forward Aaron Henry (Indianapolis, Ind./Ben Davis), who scored a season-high 18 points against Virginia Tech, is third on the team with 12.2 points per game, while adding 2.8 rebounds and 1.7 assists.
MSU has six other players averaging at least 3.0 points per game, led by sophomore forward Gabe Brown (Ypsilanti, Mich./Belleville), who is averaging 8.0 points, 3.4 rebounds
Freshman guard Rocket Watts (Detroit, Mich. / SPIRE Academy [Ohio]) adds 6.9 points, 2.3 rebounds and 2.3 assists and forward Malik Hall (Aurora, Ill./Sunrise Christian Academy [Kan.]) is averaging 5.7 points and 3.3 rebounds, while sophomore forward Thomas Kithier (Clarkston, Mich./Clarkston) is averaging 5.3 points and 3.7 rebounds and 1.4 assists and sophomore forward Marcus Bingham Jr. (Grand Rapids, Mich./Grand Rapids Catholic Central) is averaging 4.7 points, 3.9 rebounds and 1.7 blocks.
Redshirt senior Kyle Ahrens (Versailles, Ohio/Versailles) is averaging 3.1 points and 1.7 rebounds

Series History

This is the 16th all-time meeting between Michigan State and Duke. Duke leads the all-time series 12-3.
The Spartans won the last meeting, 68-67, on March 31, 2019 in the NCAA Elite Eight to reach the Final Four.
MSU is 0-1 at home against Duke, the lone game a 72-50 Blue Devils win on Dec. 3, 2003.
MSU is 0-4 against Duke in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge.
Nine of the last 10 games in the series have been decided by 10 points or fewer.

About Duke

Duke enters Tuesday night's game with a 7-1 record following an 83-70 win over Winthrop on Friday night.
The Blue Devils suffered their first loss of the season on Tuesday at home when Stephen F. Austin posted an 85-83 overtime win at Cameron Indoor Fieldhouse.
Freshman center Vernon Carey Jr. leads the team in scoring and rebounding, averaging 18.4 points and 9.5 boards, while adding 2.4 blocks per game. Sophomore guard Tre Jones is second on the team with 15.1 points and leads the team with 6.9 assists.
Freshman guard Cassius Stanley is averaging 12.9 points and 4.8 rebounds and freshman forward Matthew Hurt adds 10.9 points and 3.9 rebounds.
Freshman forward Wendell Moore Jr., who has started four games, is averaging 7.5 points and 3.4 rebounds, while sophomore forward Joey Baker is adding 6.4 points per game.
The Blue Devils are shooting 45.7 percent from the floor, while opponents are shooting 42.3 percent.

Players Mentioned

Kyle Ahrens

Marcus Bingham Jr.

Gabe Brown

Malik Hall

Aaron Henry

Thomas Kithier

Xavier Tillman Sr.

Rocket Watts

Cassius Winston