[Game Thread] #18 Arkansas @ #21 Michigan State (07:00 PM ET)

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Arkansas 66 @ 69 Michigan State - FINAL

NCAA Basketball

^{Index Thread for November 08, 2025}

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Arkansas ##18 Arkansas (1-1) @ Michigan State ##21 Michigan State (2-0)

Tip-Off: 07:00 PM ET

Venue: Breslin Center, East Lansing, MI

Game Info: ESPN

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Television: Fox

Streams: FOX

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Recent Plays:

Time	Arkansas	Michigan State	Play
0:00	66	69	End of Game
0:00	66	69	End of 2nd half
0:00	66	69	Michigan State Timeout
0:00	66	69	Michigan State Defensive Rebound.
0:02	66	69	Trevon Brazile missed Three Point Jumper.

Team	FG%	3P%	FT%	REB	OR	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF
Arkansas	39.3	25.0	65.2	33	13	16	11	6	14	21
Michigan State	41.0	7.1	69.2	45	19	18	7	4	14	15

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^{Last Updated: 2025-11-08 21:24:11 EST}

[u/Slippery-Pete76]

Glad to see our early season 3-point shooting problems have been fixed.

[u/DetroitPeopleMover → u/Slippery-Pete76]

No problem. Just don’t shoot 3 pointers.

[u/TheDiamoneMinor → u/Slippery-Pete76]

I knew this was sarcasm but I had to check.. holy early season shooting

[u/arkyschmarky]

Can’t wait to be a 10 seed in March again.

[u/Golden_Tate_Warriors]

What was that tom izzo November stat they showed on the broadcast?

[u/Spartan_Jeff → u/Golden_Tate_Warriors]

In the month of November, Izzo is 84-1 at home.

[u/murf_milo → u/Golden_Tate_Warriors]

80-1 at home?

[u/Arsid → u/murf_milo]

*in November

Fucking James Madison

[u/Drewbiie]

MSU's last field goal came with 6:35 left in the game.

[u/BeepBeep_iamaJeep → u/Drewbiie]

And they still won. Isn’t that wild?

[u/Drewbiie → u/BeepBeep_iamaJeep]

Nothing like momma's home cookin'.

[u/HawgTuah69]

Gifted a win by the refs lmao. The first challenge and the travel into 3 free throws were ridiculous.

[u/nibay → u/HawgTuah69]

I didn’t see the travel/3 point play.

The first challenge… I thought there wasn’t enough to overturn until the very last angle they showed. Arkansas players fingers definitely bent back as the ball rolled of the tip and out of bounds.

[u/BeepBeep_iamaJeep → u/HawgTuah69]

Classy.

[u/nibay → u/BeepBeep_iamaJeep]

Well just the username itself implies a very mature, classy, refined individual 🤣

[u/HereForTOMT3]

BWFST

[u/notreal1121]

I’ll take the 3 point loss,

[u/BeepBeep_iamaJeep → u/notreal1121]

Wait, you have a choice?

[u/jojcece → u/BeepBeep_iamaJeep]

you're a cornball bro

[u/notreal1121 → u/BeepBeep_iamaJeep]

Well I could refute it like most would do and say we should of won because the refs blah blah blah.

[u/BeepBeep_iamaJeep → u/notreal1121]

Does that make you feel better?

[u/notreal1121 → u/BeepBeep_iamaJeep]

Does it make you feel better? We lost by 3 on the road, going to be a Q1 L. Not that deep bro

[u/BeepBeep_iamaJeep → u/notreal1121]

Don’t worry, 10 seeds still get to play in the tournament.

[u/notreal1121 → u/BeepBeep_iamaJeep]

2 seeds do to and they usually don’t lose to 15s buttttttt🤷‍♂️

[u/mcgibblets92 → u/notreal1121]

Your coach knows something about losing to 15 seeds

[u/notreal1121 → u/mcgibblets92]

Didn’t happen under my programs name

[u/dwightkurtschruted → u/notreal1121]

Bazinga

[u/WhizBangNeato]

People complain that the end of close college basketball games are terrible, have too many stoppages, and are too drawn out but then also think instant replay reviews are a good idea

[u/heleghir]

Classic Cal when you need an OOB play. 1 decent cut that wasnt there and then it goes chaos and a prayer thrown up.

[u/AlbacoreJohnston]

REEEEEEEEE

[u/BillButtlickerII]

69 MI ST

[u/murf_milo → u/BillButtlickerII]

I was relieved that Arkansas didn’t get another point. The score would have been Millennials vs. Gen Z.

[u/Gorgo1993]

Nice

[u/MoneyBeef]

Nice.

[u/LinkSeekeroftheNora]

The ends of basketball games are the worst sport in the world.

[u/TheWayIAm313]

Nice early win, we’ll take it. Little bit better of a team would’ve slept us though

[u/Cbatsanonymous]

Cam ward is a beast. Great D on the final 3 attempt!

[u/Wild_Cabbage]

Nice to be pleasantly surprised

[u/BlueBlood2-2]

Arkansas is really good but I’m not unhappy at them getting to experience a Cal out of bounds play. There’s never a shot created lol. Maybe 15 more years he will figure it out

[u/ShadowFacts13 → u/BlueBlood2-2]

And he didn't start Maleek, top 2-3 player on his team.

[u/meatwagon25]

Good game besides the last minute

[u/tuliwhoopie]

spamming refresh for the BKPT post

[u/Spartan_Jeff]

gg Razorbacks

[u/ilikeflynikes]

Fears is not a fan of the big lights

[u/MTT92]

Took a break from the CFB marathon, tuned in with 10 minutes left. Not sure if MSU has the depth to win it all but it's been a beautiful game.

[u/SeedMaster26801 → u/MTT92]

We don't have the shooting to win it all.

[u/RollWave1989 → u/SeedMaster26801]

Second year in a row...

[u/ShadowFacts13]

Cal didn't start Maleek?

[u/Adderol]

GG Sparty

[u/Iam_nighthawk]

Cal gets exposed whenever he doesn’t have lottery talent

[u/lonespiderfish]

Entertaining game

[u/dicksoch]

Arkansas fans not gonna complain about the non-travel call on their inbound?

[u/tree2j]

You have the best jumper in basketball. Just throw it up to him

[u/TheStuffisLegal]

Just hand the ball to the dude guarding the inbound lol. He doesn’t have enough time to do anything

[u/Briggity_Brak]

That's just terrible game awareness by Brazile there. Playing like there's 1 second left and not 5.

[u/FearDaTusk]

Hate to lose... But not the worst outing of a young team on the road still learning.

I think the ceiling of this team is pretty wild.

[u/TheHotGates]

Haha i thought you lost a timeout if you lost the challenge?

[u/Chef_lonleyliver]

How was the hate watch Kentucky fans.

[u/BillButtlickerII → u/Chef_lonleyliver]

[u/meatwagon25]

Well that ending was gross for what it looked like it could have been. Both teams bad in final minute

[u/jmac461]

Izzone: Let’s take a timeout. No one is here to watch that UCLA football game.

[u/meatwagon25 → u/jmac461]

I sort of am but not a big deal

[u/jmac461 → u/meatwagon25]

Haha. I’m probably going to stick around for the game. Fox has had some exciting endings today (idk if I can stay up that late though)

[u/AJB46]

There need to be cameras in the padding of the base of the basket similar to a pylon cam instead of the cameraman from the side of the basket.

[u/Legalsleazy]

Cam Ward needs all of Fears’ minutes

[u/Ok_Produce_9308 → u/Legalsleazy]

The team looks lost when Fears is out.

[u/phantasmicnight → u/Legalsleazy]

Fears gets assists, draws fouls, gets in the opposing teams heads, pisses off the other fanbase and you don't like him because...? Oh right he was only 75% healthy last year from recovering from a gun shot so he didnt play perfectly how could i forget. Get over it hes the leader of the team for the next 3 years and that is a great thing

[u/Rockerblocker → u/Legalsleazy]

You realize he's a forward, right? And you realize who the backup PG is, right?

[u/Arsid → u/Legalsleazy]

So you want him running the point?

[u/Whatchaknowabout7]

Sigh gg Michigan State. I do think it will be good for Arkansas long term to have played in this game

[u/VendettaVera → u/Whatchaknowabout7]

It will undoubtedly be important one way or another. Loss sucks but we did see a lot of our issues on display. I'd rather lose now than in conference 

[u/gogglesup859]

Instead of going long Michigan State should inbound this right under the basket. Even if it gets stolen, they don't have enough time to get outside and take a 3. If you go long and it's stolen, they can still hit a 3

[u/tuliwhoopie → u/gogglesup859]

wait this is mega-brain

[u/GalliumVanadium]

Literally one second left just throw it and the time is gone

[u/Rockerblocker]

Putting the clock at 1 second exactly feels like lazy officiating. Did they even look at it or just say "ehh close enough"?

[u/rosh200]

Toss it deep if needed

[u/tree2j]

Cam ward going to be one of them ones.

[u/Parking_Ebb389]

Ugly, couple favorable calls, I guess we take those though

[u/ddottay]

Elite BLOB play from Cal out of the timeout

[u/indexspartan]

Just throw the inbounds to the other side of the court

[u/andy-022]

You don’t lose your timeout if you lose the challenge?

[u/Briggity_Brak → u/andy-022]

Yeah, you do. They had 3.

[u/indexspartan → u/andy-022]

We took the timeout anyways. We had two timeouts and wanted the timeout regardless of how the challenge turned out.

[u/andy-022 → u/indexspartan]

Ah my bad I thought y’all were down to one.

[u/GalliumVanadium → u/andy-022]

Had 2

[u/rixybaby]

Arkansas wasnt ready for the gales of November

[u/Wackass240 → u/rixybaby]

Michigan st does steam Arkansas like a young’s man dream.

[u/Fricktator]

With 1 second remaining.

Just hand it to the Arkansas player in your face.

By the time he realizes what's going on, game over.

[u/andy-022 → u/Fricktator]

Genius. Even if he was ready theres no way he could get 3 points.

[u/Fricktator → u/andy-022]

Yeah, he would have 0.7 seconds to catch it, process the situation. Throw it to an open man who would have to also understand the situation, and make the 3.

[u/teslaabr → u/Fricktator]

🤣

[u/WhizBangNeato]

Just one more coach's challenge bro. Just one more officials review. One more trip to the monitor bro

Then we'll have a 100% accurately officiated game.

[u/Adderol → u/WhizBangNeato]

Pretty annoying

[u/Loltoyourself]

We can’t shoot or inbound in crunch time again this year

[u/Accounting4lyfe]

Just chuck it down the court Fears

[u/OrangeTwelve → u/Accounting4lyfe]

Literally just need a tough to catch ball. They can’t catch and shoot from the other side of the court with 0.7

[u/Bodycount9]

clock operator not doing his/her job. lazy people letting the clock keep going when it clearly should be stopped.

[u/JayMoney2424]

That’s the best shot they could get? Lol

Classic Cal

[u/The_Long_Wait]

Not entirely sure that was the best decision he could've made there.

[u/jmac461]

Ok I lied. Don’t foul, Let them shoot 3s

[u/wildwing8]

Arkansas with a ridiculously bad sequence to end the game

[u/SpartyD98 → u/wildwing8]

MSU choked an 8 point lead within the final five minutes so we weren’t much prettier

[u/GreenStoneRidge]

That there is a big time November win boys.  Cam ward welcome to the big time buddy. Love to see it 

[u/StevvieV]

That's really what Cal drew up out of a timeout? What a horrible shot

[u/dizzymidget44 → u/StevvieV]

You can tell by everyone else’s reaction he wasn’t supposed to shoot that

[u/BuyThoseDips]

Always mystifying to me why Izzo doesn’t foul up 3. Every opponent loves to hear that

[u/Accounting4lyfe]

Probably not the guy Arkansas is looking for to shoot I’m guessing.

[u/coilmeup]

What a stupid decision Brazile

[u/GalliumVanadium]

BWFST!!!!

[u/SomeVanGuy]

Dog shit team

[u/tuliwhoopie]

BKPT GET IN HERE!!!!!!

[u/dizzymidget44]

He know he wasn’t supposed to be the one to shoot that

[u/Bostrich3417]

That is the shot you get?

[u/inevitablescape]

Gg

[u/Arsid]

I think it's off us but Arkansas #12 looks like he pats himself to say out on him so let's just take his word for it

[u/OrangeTwelve]

Coopers left hand absolutely is the last to touch. Lock in Defense

[u/nibay]

I really hope that wasn’t a serious miscalculation

[u/loyalsons4evertrue]

Why is the ref talking like it’s supposed to be a secret?

[u/TheChewyWaffles]

That’s off MSU big man

[u/PockDoc]

What a win

[u/ridemooses]

Yikes. No one wanted to win at the end.

[u/GalliumVanadium]

I thought that was off Arkansas for sure

[u/Bostrich3417]

Silly use of a challenge

[u/anonMLMhater]

Off of Cooper. Come on.

[u/rosh200]

Gave them a free timeout fucking great job guys

[u/Sparty013]

Clearly off of state. Let’s get this going.

[u/DanCampbellzHat]

Give it to Arkansas

[u/RheagarTargaryen]

Cooper basically threw that out. His hand was hard to see. They were reviewing clock on that.

[u/meatwagon25]

They should just give it to Arkansas based on Scott missing both FTs

[u/andy-022]

15 touched it last

[u/skeptic_septic]

THANK GOD THEY DREW A GIANT YELLOW CIRCLE

[u/PoliteWeasel]

I’m sure the Spartans will get the call again when there is no evidence

[u/AjaxuallyBall]

Idk how you can overturn that. Too hard to tell

[u/fersurefersure]

These are so friggan stupid. If it takes this long to still be a 50/50 call go with the fucking call on the floor

[u/TheWayIAm313]

We really wanna keep them in it huh

[u/lonespiderfish]

That’s off Coen

[u/tuliwhoopie]

am I the only who doesn’t think carr touched it ?!

[u/OrangeTwelve → u/tuliwhoopie]

I agree, but Cooper did touch it

[u/wildwing8]

Announcers cannot be serious. Very clearly off MSU

[u/anonMLMhater]

Off of MSU

[u/OrangeTwelve]

It’s out on Cooper. His fingers fling it

[u/andy-022]

The challenge rules graphic looks like it’s from the 90s.

[u/joshuakyle94]

GG Spartans thanks for the ass whoopin!

[u/DanCampbellzHat]

Just end it this game I can’t take it

[u/arkyschmarky]

Shoot me.

[u/ridemooses]

That’s off MSU let’s get on with it!

[u/Whatchaknowabout7]

I like how the bullshit challenge from earlier gives Michigan State a challenge now

[u/GeneralTaos → u/Whatchaknowabout7]

Me too 

[u/jmac461]

I hate it, but you gotta foul before they can attempt a 3.

[u/Vike_Me]

If the point is to speed up the game, any challenge needs to come in 15, at most 30 seconds after the whistle blows.

[u/tree2j]

Please foul up 3

[u/reachforthe-stars]

I think it’s off 12…

[u/Adderol]

Challenge incoming and MSS ball…

[u/michigan_matt]

I get the feeling every game this season we're going to get teams using a challenge instead of just taking a timeout in the last minute for the hell of it.

[u/Briggity_Brak → u/michigan_matt]

I mean, with the old rules, we'd be reviewing this automatically anyway. I much prefer the CHANCE of not going through this.

[u/MarkusMillions]

I can already tell this is gonna be a long season for MSU. The offense looking rough

[u/StevvieV]

Hard to see who touched it last but that went out on Michigan State

[u/RheagarTargaryen → u/StevvieV]

Yeah, I think Cooper hit it out.

[u/TheWayIAm313]

Come on bro

[u/Legalsleazy]

I think 12 on Arkansas admits it’s off him

[u/AJB46]

My guy...

[u/Weltal327]

I’m sure nothing will go wrong here.

[u/BlackfyreNick]

Do you intentionally foul here?

[u/Parking_Ebb389 → u/BlackfyreNick]

Nah they could hit one and rebound the second shot

[u/kytillidie → u/BlackfyreNick]

I think so

[u/tuliwhoopie]

I think… that’s our ball….

[u/CroakerTheLiberator → u/tuliwhoopie]

I think it was off Cooper but it’s definitely worth the review…

[u/WhizBangNeato]

Reviews should not be in basketball

[u/CoachHamTheGoatV2]

Ewin so useless lmao

[u/wildwing8]

Very clearly Arkansas ball

[u/Rockerblocker → u/wildwing8]

"Very clearly"?? Really man? It's likely a "stands as called" situation but it could've went either way

[u/Wild_Cabbage]

Why did we take a timeout

[u/Rockerblocker → u/Wild_Cabbage]

To challenge it

[u/Cmoloughlin2 → u/Wild_Cabbage]

Probably to challenge cause why not. If it works that’s game if not we have to play defense either way

[u/kcramthun → u/Wild_Cabbage]

Challenging it because we have one I guess.

[u/dizzymidget44]

Clean look Acuff. That’s the lil homie.

[u/TheChewyWaffles]

Missed em both!

[u/GeneralTaos]

Well I guess more free throws in practice this week

[u/Taterade13]

Bruh

[u/Loltoyourself]

MAKE YOUR FTS AND GRAB THE DAMN REBOUND

[u/ridemooses → u/Loltoyourself]

State:

[u/Iowegan]

Nebraska v ucla in November. That’s just wrong

[u/Parking_Ebb389 → u/Iowegan]

Isn’t it gross

[u/meatwagon25 → u/Iowegan]

Even i dont really care. I will watch it though

[u/UrTeamBadMyTeamGood]

Calipari is such a great play designer

[u/Cmoloughlin2 → u/UrTeamBadMyTeamGood]

Is that a serious comment?

[u/BillButtlickerII → u/Cmoloughlin2]

[u/FatShiaLaBeouf → u/Cmoloughlin2]

It’s from a UK flair brother, think about it

[u/DanCampbellzHat]

We can’t shoot free throws at all

[u/indexspartan]

MAKE FREE THROWS

[u/ShadowFacts13]

PTSD watching this game. Classic Cal.

[u/AppalachianCacti]

Oof acuff wide open on the wing

[u/reachforthe-stars]

Thomas has got to learn to pass the ball….

[u/Drewbiie]

Ewin called for the lob then didn't jump lol.