No. 20 Michigan State Visits Notre Dame in ACC/Big Ten Challenge

East Lansing, Mich. – Michigan State’s men’s basketball team wraps up a hectic and challenging opening month of the season at Notre Dame on Wednesday night in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge (ESPN, 9:15 p.m.).

The Spartans have played three ranked teams, including two in the top-5 (Gonzaga and Kentucky), and traveled to San Diego, Indianapolis, Oregon and South Bend, racking up more than 10,000 miles of travel during the team’s first eight games of the season. Since 2009-10, the Spartans are one of six teams (including the 2016-17 Spartans) to play at least four AP ranked opponents in the month of November. MSU is the ONLY team to play two teams in the top 4, losing to then-No. 2 Gonzaga on Nov. 11, 64-63, and beating then-No. 4 Kentucky in double overtime, 86-77, in the Champions Classic on Nov. 15 The Spartans are coming off a fifth-place finish in the Phil Knight Invitational, losing to No. 18 Alabama (81-70) and then posting wins over Oregon (74-70) and Portland (78-77).

The game will air live on ESPN2, with Brian Custer and Jordan Cornette calling all of the action. The TCF Bank Spartan Media Network radio call can be heard on one of 38 affiliates and on the web at MSUSpartans.com, with Will Tieman handling the play-by-play and Matt Steigenga serving as the color analyst. The game can also be heard on channel 383 on SiriusXM and channel 973 on the SiriusXM app.

About the Spartans

• Michigan State enters the game on Wednesday with a 5-2 overall record, closing out a month of November against one of the nation’s toughest schedules.
• MSU has faced the toughest slate of opposing offenses in the country, the 23rd-toughest slate of opposing defenses and ranks No. 7 overall in strength of schedule per KenPom.com.
• Through seven games, senior guard Tyson Walker leads the team in scoring with 15.6 ppg, while adding 3.1 rpg and 4.6 assists per game.
• Walker is one of four players scoring in double figures …Graduate forward Joey Hauser is second on the team in scoring with 13.9 points per game, shooting 47.1 percent from the floor and 47.2 percent from 3-point land.
• Senior forward Malik Hall, who has missed the last three games, is third on the…