CHICAGO — Duke basketball suffered its first loss of the season at the hands of Michigan State, falling 79-73 in the State Farm Champions Classic

The No. 2 Blue Devils (2-1) struggled offensively, shooting 33.3% from the field, including 25.9% in the first half. Duke made just seven of its 29 3-point attempts (24.1%) and shot 70.3% from the free-throw line.

Duke never led during the contest.

Here's some of what Jon Scheyer said after the loss:

Opening remarks

"Congrats to Michigan State, they 100% deserve to win. Thought they out-competed us. They played more together. (Jeremy) Fears Jr. controlled the game. I thought the difference, their role players were incredible. (Cam) Ward, what he did in the first half changed the game. Those guys, you know Carr, they were really solid. For me, it was a little bit of an out of body experience. Our team, I didn't, thought we were completely—we weren't connected, just the bottom line. We weren't connected. And we're going to fix it. I can promise you that much. Our fans deserve better. That was not a good performance tonight. You've got to give a lot of credit to Michigan State, though. They were ready to play. Fears controlled the whole game. And again, for us, it's no excuses on our end. We'll get back to work. We'll address this very quickly. Our schedule doesn't get any easier. So, on one hand, that's tough. On the other hand, there's great opportunity. And this is game three of hopefully a long season ahead of us."

On Michigan State's fast start

"Michigan State, they did a lot of that to us. We did not, the whole night, just play through any resistance. They're physical. They have great experience. And I thought that showed tonight. We weren't able to get to the next action. The amount of times we just went one-on-one against a set defense, put our head down, got our shot blocked, turned the ball over. I thought that's how they got separation, 13 points in the first half. So, they have a great defense, it's what they do. But I'm still disappointed in our ability to fight for the rim and fight for better shots."

On message to the team

"Any time you lose, it's finger-pointing time. And you can either decide, make excuses, you can point the finger at somebody else, or we can take collective responsibility. That's what I'm going to do. I'm responsible for how we played tonight. Going to watch film, going to live in it, and move past it quickly because we can't just be in this moment. But we have plenty of things we can address and plenty of things we can get better in. Most importantly, we've got to play together. That wasn't Duke basketball. We did not play together. I think it shows we were very low efficiency. I think then what happens is when you play that way, you probably get a little bit tight. And we missed 11 free throws, multiple front ends of the one-on-one. So we'll make sure we're more connected playing the right way."

On lack of connectivity

"I was surprised because that's not how we've practiced. With that said, I thought we played like that in an Army game. I thought there were some signs of it there that we addressed, came back against Coastal Carolina. I thought we had some beautiful plays. The thing is, as you raise the level, Michigan State has one of the best defenses. Some things that might have worked last week aren't going to work this week. And so the ability to work to get open, the ability to make decisions in traffic, the ability on two-on-ones. I mean, we had two-on-ones for dunks that we went in to score. Those plays we're going to address. And at the end of the day for our group, we have guys that just are used to making their impact through scoring. And so there is going to be an evolution and adjustment for that. That's why Sebastian and Drew, they were the only two guys tonight where we won the minutes. Everybody else, we lost those minutes. Pat didn't have his best stuff by any means. You know, Pat has been out and sick, and we've got to get him back. But all in all, it comes down to our lack of fighting through resistance, playing together, and Michigan State outplaying us. Bottom line."