The game will air live on BTN, with Jeff Levering and Brian Butch 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 Sirius 138, XM 196 and Internet 958.
Records
Michigan State enters the game with a 3-0 record following a 75-69 win at No. 6 Duke on Tuesday night. This will be the season opener for the Titans.
About the Spartans
- Michigan State enters the game on Friday night with a 3-0 record, the first time since 2015-16 the Spartans have won their first three games of the season ... In 2015-16, MSU won the first 13 games of the season.
- The Spartans feature a balanced attack early in the season, with three players scoring in double figures, eight players averaging at least 5.0 points and nine players averaging at least 10 minutes per game.
- Redshirt junior forward Joey Hauser leads the way, averaging 12.0 points and 11.7 rebounds ... He has had double-doubles in consecutive games, with 10 points and 16 rebounds against Notre Dame and 10 points and 11 rebounds in the win over Duke Tuesday.
- Sophomore guard Rocket Watts is averaging 11.7 points and 3.7 assists.
- Junior forward Aaron Henry is averaging 11.3 points, 5.7 rebounds, 5.0 assists, 2.7 blocks and 2.0 steals per game.
- Junior guard Foster is averaging 9.3 points and 3.0 rebounds, while graduate guard Joshua Langford and junior forward Gabe Brown are each scoring 7.0 points per game.
- Sophomore forward Malik Hall, who had his first career double-double (10 points, 10 rebounds) at Duke, is averaging 6.7 points, 6.0 rebounds and 3.3 assists and sophomore forward Julius Marble is averaging 5.7 points in 6.0 minutes.
- Michigan State's sophomore class - guard Rocket Watts, along with forwards Malik Hall and Julius Marble – is making quite the impact through three games.
- Watts is averaging 11.7 points and 3.7 assists per game, while Hall is adding 6.7 points, 6.0 rebounds and 3.3 assists.
- Marble, who scored 12 points in the win at Duke, is averaging 5.7 points and 1.3 rebounds .
- Combined, the trio is averaging 24.0 points, 9.7 rebounds and 7.0 assists per game ... They have accounted for 30.3 percent of MSU's scoring (72 of 238 points).
- The game on Friday night is the 62nd meeting all-time between Detroit Mercy and Michigan State, but it is the first since 2001, when MSU posted an 80-70 win on November 12 at the Breslin Center.
- MSU leads the head-to-head series, 45-16.
- The Titans won three-straight games against MSU between 1995 and 1997.
- MSU is 26-6 all-time at home against Detroit.
- After three games were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Detroit Mercy opens its regular season on Friday at Michigan State.
- The Titans posted an 8-23 record in 2019-20, including a 6-12 mark in the Horizon League.
- Head Coach Mike Davis is no stranger to Michigan State as Davis was at the helm of the Indiana program and at Texas Southern and has an all-time record of 6-7 against the Spartans.
- Titans junior guard Antoine Davis is a two-time First Team All-Horizon League selection.
- He has led the Horizon in scoring the last two years and enters this year as the nation's second-leading returning scorer after averaging 24.3 points last season.
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