EAST LANSING – The news this week that Michigan State’s basketball team will play at Duke in the next ACC/Big Ten Challenge was met with a sigh from more than a few Spartan faithful.
Nothing to do with the matchup. Just the location. “At Duke.” Never East Lansing, it seems.
“Why does MSU always have to play there?” A friend’s father asked.
“Always” is a relative term.
The home-road disparity in this matchup isn’t actually much of a disparity. While Duke has only visited Breslin Center once, in 2003 as part of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge, MSU has only played at Cameron Indoor Stadium twice, in 2004 and 2010.