Kur Teng hit three of Michigan State’s season-high 11 3-pointers on the way to scoring a career-best 15 points, and the 17th-ranked Spartans remained undefeated by beating No. 12 Kentucky 83-66 at Madison Square Garden in the annual Champions Classic.

The next challenge will be a lot different with a buy game against the Titans, who are coming off a 72-62 loss against Eastern Michigan. Detroit Mercy is led by second-year coach Mark Montgomery, a former standout player for the Spartans and assistant coach under Izzo.

Tuesday night revealed that no ceiling needs to be put on Michigan State basketball this year, at least not yet. The 17th-ranked Spartans dominated No. 12 Kentu

One team walked into Madison Square Garden in its team-issued sweatsuits. The other approached the game much like an NBA squad arriving for work, fashioned in their outfits of the day. Michigan State and Kentucky embody the old and new in college hoops.

No. 17 MSU returns to the Breslin Center after dominant win over Kentucky, facing 1-4 Detroit Mercy with tipoff at 6:30 p.m. ET on Big Ten Network. Here's how to watch for free.

Michigan State's breakout 3-point-shooting performance was so surprising to Tom Izzo that the Hall of Fame coach wondered aloud if the Spartans made more while beating Kentucky than in their first three games of the season combined.

This article was originally published on www.si.com/college/kentucky as Jimmy Dykes got brutally honest about Kentucky after the Michigan State loss. The ugly loss the Kentucky Wildcats suffered at the hands of Tom Izzo's Michigan State Spartans has Big Blue Nation concerned about this basketball team.

Michigan State committed four turnovers early in a sloppy start to the second half before putting together a quick 8-0 run. Fort and Kohler knocked down back-to-back triples before Cooper threw down a slam off a lob from Fears as the lead ballooned to a game-high 24 at 55-31.

Coen Carr pulled off a thunderous dunk highlight in the No. 17 Michigan State Spartans' blowout win over Detroit Mercy on Friday night.

Both provided a spark in Michigan State’s win, with McCulloch hitting all three shots he took, including a pair of 3s, as a floor-stretching spark off the bench. And Ward bullied the paint for eight points and four rebounds.