EAST LANSING (AP) -- Michigan State and Connecticut are planning to play a men's basketball game a U.S. Air Force base in Germany next season.
Michigan State athletic director Mark Hollis says the game will take place Nov. 9 at Ramstein Air Base, pending final approval by the Defense Department.
The Spartans and North Carolina played last season on an aircraft carrier, and the game drew ESPN's highest-ever rating for a game played in November.
Hollis says the game at Ramstein would take place before an audience of 2,500 to 3,000 enlisted men and women.
Michigan State coach Tom Izzo calls it "another amazing opportunity for Spartan basketball and Michigan State University" and says it would be an honor to be part of the first college basketball game played on a military base overseas.
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