Tuesday, November 9
New York, N.Y.
7 p.m. ET
Michigan State University
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Kansas
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Photo by: Phil Ellsworth / ESPN Images
Michigan State Falls to No. 3 Kansas, 87-74, at the Champions Classic
11/9/2021 10:04:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Hoggard and Marble record career highs in points, as four Spartans reach double figures.
NEW YORK CITY – Sophomore guard A.J. Hoggard (Coatesville, Pa./Huntington Prep) registered a career-high 17 points off the bench for the Michigan State's men's basketball team in the 2021 State Farm Champions Classic, but the Spartans began the 2021-22 season with an 87-74 loss to No. 3 Kansas Tuesday night in Madison Square Garden.
The season-opening defeat moved MSU to 0-1 overall, while the Jayhawks start the campaign at 1-0.
Hoggard was one of four Spartans to record double figures, going 8-for-13 from the field, while adding four assists and two rebounds. A career-best 13 points for junior forward Julius Marble II (Dallas, Texas/Dallas Jesuit) was second-most on the team, as he made all four of his field goal attempts and went 5-for-6 from the free throw line while chipping in a career-high seven rebounds and a block. Senior forwards Gabe Brown (Ypsilanti, Mich/Belleville) and Marcus Bingham Jr. (Grand Rapids, Mich./GR Catholic) both added 10 points, with Bingham pulling down seven boards and recording two blocks as well.
Despite having the rebound edge, 37-30, the Green and White committed 16 turnovers, leading to 16 Jayhawk points off the Spartan miscues, as Kansas' Ochai Agbaji tallied a career-high 29 points to be the game's leading scorer.
GAME RECAP
KEY STATS
NOTES
UP NEXT
Michigan State hosts Western Michigan in the Spartans' home opener on Friday, Nov. 12. Tip-off is set for 6:30 p.m. on the Big Ten Network from the Breslin Center.
The season-opening defeat moved MSU to 0-1 overall, while the Jayhawks start the campaign at 1-0.
Hoggard was one of four Spartans to record double figures, going 8-for-13 from the field, while adding four assists and two rebounds. A career-best 13 points for junior forward Julius Marble II (Dallas, Texas/Dallas Jesuit) was second-most on the team, as he made all four of his field goal attempts and went 5-for-6 from the free throw line while chipping in a career-high seven rebounds and a block. Senior forwards Gabe Brown (Ypsilanti, Mich/Belleville) and Marcus Bingham Jr. (Grand Rapids, Mich./GR Catholic) both added 10 points, with Bingham pulling down seven boards and recording two blocks as well.
Despite having the rebound edge, 37-30, the Green and White committed 16 turnovers, leading to 16 Jayhawk points off the Spartan miscues, as Kansas' Ochai Agbaji tallied a career-high 29 points to be the game's leading scorer.
GAME RECAP
- With five lead changes in over eight minutes of action, Hoggard put MSU ahead, 17-16, just before the U12 media timeout of the first half with a jumper from right inside the arc.
- After KU retook the lead, freshman guard Max Christie (Arlington Heights, Ill./Rolling Meadows) got the ball on the right wing off a fast break and hit a 3-pointer with 8:31 left in the opening half, starting a 5-0 run over 1:47 of game time that was followed by a second-chance layup from redshirt senior Joey Hauser (Stevens Point, Wis./Marquette).
- Zach Clemence put together a run where he scored seven-straight KU points, giving the Jayhawks a 32-21 edge at 3:31 with a layup that accounted for the 10th and final lead change of the night. The Clemence bucket started a 9-0 run by Kansas that was capped off with four seconds left on the first-half clock when Agbaji drained a pair of free throws.
- MSU came out of the intermission by making five field goals in its first seven attempts to cut the lead to 48-45 KU on a Hoggard three-ball after Marble dove into the crowd to keep possession for the Spartans off a Brown miss.
- Agbaji responded with a pair of dunks to put Kansas up, 52-45, finishing an alley-oop out of the U16 media timeout and then dunking on a fast break off a MSU turnover.
- David McCormack gave Kansas its largest lead of the night, 77-61, when he finished a dunk at 6:06 of the second half.
- Brown cut into the lead with a pull-up jumper at 5:22, followed by Marble sinking two free throws and Brown stepping back for a 3-pointer with 4:13 left to counter another Agbaji dunk and make it 79-68.
- Marble drew a foul on a drive at 2:39 and made both free throws to bring the Spartans back to a 10-point deficit at 81-71, but Agbaji later made both of his free throw attempts with 2:20 left to push the lead back to 12 at 83-71.
- Remy Martin put away MSU for good with a step-back jumper at the 1:30 mark to extend the lead to 85-72, as a Hoggard driving layup was answered by a layup from Dajuan Harris with 15 seconds remaining in the game to end the scoring.
KEY STATS
- It was the MSU big men scoring early, as Brown, Hauser, Bingham and Marble combined for five of the team's first six buckets, as Marble got back-to-back buckets with a hook-shot jumper in the paint with 14:50 left in the first and then a driving layup at 14:00.
- MSU went the final 3:46 of the opening half without a field goal, missing six attempts in that span.
- Hoggard played the bulk of the first half, racking up eight points (4-for-7 FG) and dishing out three assists in 16 minutes. Marble made the most of his nine minutes in the first half, converting all three field goal attempts for six points and pulling down four rebounds.
- Martin was one of two other Jayhawks to record double-digit points, as the Arizona State transfer collected 15 points in his Kansas debut. McCormack finished the night with 10 points.
- Making three of his seven shots and assisting on three other buckets, Hauser shared the team lead with seven rebounds. Junior guard Tyson Walker (Westbury, N.Y./Northeastern) also dished out three assists in his first game at MSG.
- Christie barely missed out on double figures with nine points in his collegiate regular season debut, going 2-for-4 from 3-point land and coming down with three boards.
- Kansas only had a slight lead in field goal percentage, shooting 48-percent (31-for-64) to MSU's 46-percent (39-63), but had a wide advantage at the charity stripe, making 19-of-24 (79-percent) free throws to the Spartans' 9-of-16 (56-percent) free throw shooting.
- MSU had the edge in bench points, 35-21, and second-chance points, 12-6, but the Jayhawks had more points in the paint, 44-40, and on the fast break, 20-11.
NOTES
- The all-time series sits at 8-7 in favor of Kansas after Tuesday's contest.
- MSU is now 2-2 against Kansas in the Champions Classic.
- The Spartans' overall record in the Champions Classic moved to 4-7.
- Head coach Tom Izzo is now 20-7 in season openers.
UP NEXT
Michigan State hosts Western Michigan in the Spartans' home opener on Friday, Nov. 12. Tip-off is set for 6:30 p.m. on the Big Ten Network from the Breslin Center.
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Team Stats
KU
MSU
FG%
.484
.460
3FG%
.353
.350
FT%
.792
.563
RB
30
37
TO
9
16
STL
8
5
Game Leaders
Scoring
Pts
17
FGM
8
3FGM
1
FTM
0
Pts
13
FGM
4
3FGM
0
FTM
5
Pts
10
FGM
5
3FGM
0
FTM
0
Pts
10
FGM
4
3FGM
2
FTM
0
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