{"id":18360,"date":"2024-06-20T16:20:58","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T20:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=18360"},"modified":"2024-06-20T16:20:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T20:20:58","slug":"michigan-state-basketball-news-announced-oakland-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=18360","title":{"rendered":"Michigan State basketball: Date announced for annual Oakland matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The date for the annual Oakland vs. Michigan State basketball game was announced on Thursday afternoon. When is it?<\/h2>\n<p>While it may be the middle of the summer, some <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/what-does-the-saddi-washington-hire-mean-for-michigan-state-basketball\/\">Michigan State basketball<\/a> news popped up on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>No, it&#8217;s not about the transfer portal or any of the guys on the roster (which is finalized, by the way), but rather the date of an annual matchup with an in-state foe.<\/p>\n<p>According to Jon Rothstein, the Spartans and Golden Grizzlies will host their annual showdown in Detroit on Dec. 17 at Little Caesars Arena.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Source: Next season&#39;s game between Michigan State and Oakland will be played on December 17th at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonRothstein\/status\/1803874588645888216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately for the Spartans, they won&#8217;t have to face the likes of Trey Townsend (transferred to Arizona) or Jack Gohlke (NBA draft process). They won&#8217;t, however, have Tyson Walker, AJ Hoggard, Mady Sissoko, or Malik Hall to help out. Jaden Akins will be the veteran of the squad along with Frankie Fidler and they&#8217;ll need guys like Tre Holloman, Xavier Booker, Jeremy Fears, Jaxon Kohler, and Coen Carr to step up in a big way.<\/p>\n<p>The Spartans&#8217; roster will be one of the best in the Big Ten, on paper, but there&#8217;s still a major question mark at center. That&#8217;s probably the lone reason fans aren&#8217;t as excited ahead of the 2024-25 season as they were ahead of 2023-24.<\/p>\n<p>While this game is never a cakewalk for Michigan State basketball, it does hold a 22-0 all-time advantage over the Golden Grizzlies and just won the most recent battle in East Lansing, 79-62. The closest game in recent memory was in 2015-16 when the Golden Grizzlies took Michigan State to overtime at the Palace of Auburn Hills before losing 99-93. These matchups have always been fun.<\/p>\n<p>There have also been some cool storylines over the years with Izzo and Greg Kampe being such good friends. We&#8217;ve seen closely-contested matchups, ugly Christmas sweaters, and even a former Spartan (Rocket Watts) playing for Oakland.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to another fun matchup in 2024-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spartans will look to improve to 23-0 vs. Oakland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[59,190,189,504,211],"class_list":["post-18360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","tag-featured","tag-michigan-state-basketball","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news","tag-tom-izzo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}