May 15, 2025: Part two of our Big Ten Recap is here where we talk about the middle of the pack of the Big Ten. We review Minnesota, Rutgers, Ohio State, Indiana, Oregon, and Illinois. There was turmoil in this group with two coaching changes: Ben Johnson getting fired at Minnesota and Mike Woodson being encouraged to retire at Indiana. Rutgers had …

May 8, 2025: Today marks the first of our three part series recapping the season for the Big Ten’s teams. We begin our tour with Washington and then continue through Penn State, Nebraska, Iowa, USC, and finish with Northwestern. The group of teams included some interesting storylines with first year coaches Danny Sprinkle from Washington and Eric M…

May 1, 2025: Today’s show is on the current roster status of MSU and its upcoming 2025-26 Big Ten Schedule. Last week we discussed the possibility of 5 star recruit Darius Adams joining the Spartans after decommitting from UConn. Those who follow Michigan State recruiting know that Adams was a target of MSU’s in this class. He ended up at Maryland …

April 23, 2025: This episode focuses on two things, MSU’s season in review and the potential recruitment of Darius Adams. At one time, MSU was one of the final teams angling to bring 5 star McDonad’s All-American, Darius Adams, but lost out to UConn. Well, UConn, brought in a lot of portal guards and they allowed Adams out of his commitment. This l…

April 16, 2025: Michigan State continues to expand its roster and just as we expected, they looked to add another guard. Well, in comes Trey Fort, a 6’4” SG from Samford who averaged 41% from 3 this year and has one year left in eligibility. Although he isn’t a primary ball handler, he should help in MSU’s backcourt. The probable addition of Fort b…

April 11, 2025: With the departure of MSU’s seniors, graduate students, and Jase Richardson to the NBA, there was an obvious need for bodies to complete next year’s roster. So Tom Izzo and the Spartans went into the portal and signed 6’7” 220# Kaleb Glenn from FAU. Glenn was a former teammate of Jeremy Fears in AAU and for a year at LaLumiere in In…

April 5, 2025: We have officially entered portal season for most of the country and it is more active than ever. For Michigan State, fans got their first taste of a player whom they love entering the portal - Tre Holloman. A player who seems to embody Tom Izzo and the program, Holloman entered the portal April 1st but (as of this programming) not y…

March 30, 2025: Michigan State’s season came to an end today as they fall 70-64 to the Auburn Tigers in the Elite 8. The game’s story was probably national player of the year candidate, Johni Broome, who had 25 points and 14 rebounds in an extremely efficient performance only missing 3 shots from the field. In contrast, MSU shot less than 40% from …

March 29, 2025: Michigan State advanced to the Elite 8 with a win over Ole Miss and now gets the honor of playing the overall number one seed, Auburn. The Tigers advanced to the Elite 8 with a win over Michigan. Auburn had to do that after trailing Michigan by nearly double digits late in the second half - similar to MSU’s second half with Ole Miss…

March 28, 2025: Michigan State advances to the Elite 8 with a hard fought win over 6 seed Ole Miss, 73-70. The script was switched this game where Ole Miss was pounding the Spartans on the offensive glass with a 12-5 edge. However, MSU was about the same with regard to turnovers where they only turned it over 10 times which was less than we suspect…

March 26, 2025: Michigan State looks to keep their NCAA Tournament run going as they face 6 seed Ole Miss in the Sweet 16 for a chance to play for the Final Four. However, the Rebels will be a challenge for MSU as they dismantled their first two opponents, North Carolina and Iowa State. They accomplished that on the back of nearly an uncharacterist…

March 24, 2025: Michigan State took on 10 seed New Mexico in the second round of the NCAA Tournament and got just about all they could handle before dispatching the Lobos 71-63 late Sunday night. The Lobos had a lead as big as 10 points in the first half but only managed to score one field goal over the final 9 minutes of the half leading to just a…

March 22, 2025: Michigan State moved on to the second round of the NCAA Tournament with a win over Bryant and now face the 10 seed New Mexico Lobos in the South region. New Mexico is from the Mountain West and coached by former Big Ten Minnesota coach Richard Pitino. Similar to the 2019 tournament, MSU will face Richard Pitino in the second round. …

March 22, 2025: Michigan State took on the Bryant Bulldogs in the first round of the NCAA Tournament and won 87-62. Bryant proved to be a formidable opponent pushing the Spartans throughout the entire first half and beginning of the second. The Bulldogs led by as much as 5 in the first half but a late flurry from the Spartans gave them a 5 point le…

March 18, 2025: As expected, Michigan State got their number 2 seed in the NCAA tournament and will face the 15 seed Bryant Bulldogs from the America East Conference. Bryant has only been a Division I program for 17 years and this is their second appearance in the Big Dance. New head coach, Phil Martelli, Jr., is in his second year and was an assis…

March 17, 2025: Michigan State got their expected at-large bid to the NCAA tournament last night and will be the 2 seed in the South. Their first round opponent is Bryant who we will go into in greater depth over the next few days. But 7 other Big Ten teams made the field and we discussed their draw in some depth. Also, Bracket Dom joined us once a…

March 15, 2025: Michigan State had their 8 game winning streak against Big Ten opponents broken today as the Spartans fell to the Wisconsin Badgers, 77-74. Wisconsin had a huge showing from their star player, John Tonje, who finished the game with 32 points. Most bracteology sites have MSU slated for a 2 seed whether they won the game or not. So MS…

March 14, 2025: Michigan State took care of business in their first game in the Big Ten Tournament beating Oregon in convincing manner, 74-64 in the quarterfinals. The Spartans came out with good energy and despite letting Oregon keep it close throughout the first half, they closed the half strong heading into the locker room up 10. From there, it …

March 13, 2025: Michigan State begins its quest for a second banner tomorrow as it opens Big Ten Tournament play as the one seed against 8 seed Oregon. As you may recall, Oregon had a sizable half time lead over the Spartans at the Breslin Center in their only matchup this season. But then MSU put the clamps down and Jase Richardson went wild leadi…

March 9, 2025: Michigan State hosted Michigan to close the season on Senior Day and pounded the Wolverines 79-62 to win the Big Ten outright by 3 games. The 3 game margin is similar to Purdue’s the last three years and 17 Big Ten wins marks a record for the MSU program. The win came largely on the back of a blistering first half by the Spartans whe…

March 7, 2025: Michigan State returns to East Lansing for senior day against hated rival Michigan. They also return already as outright champs of the Big Ten with an opportunity to win the league by an amazing 3 games. Not bad for a team projected to finish 5th preseason. Since the last meeting of the teams in Ann Arbor, they’ve both gone in opposi…

March 6, 2025: Michigan State was severely tested by the Hawkeyes in Iowa City on senior night in a game MSU needed to win in order to win the Big Ten Title outright. The Spartans got the job done 91-84 with a blistering second half to the second half where they scored 43 points in the final 12 minutes of the second half. Iowa led at half by 7 and …

March 5, 2025: Michigan State heads to Iowa City for its last road game of the year against a flailing Hawkeye team. The game has Big Ten title implications as a win assures MSU with no worse than a tie for Tom Izzo’s 11th Big Ten title. And this Iowa team is really struggling on both ends of the court - especially the boards where they are almost …

March 3, 2025: Dom Leese of bracketometry.com and the number 3 bracketologist in America joins us to talk about seeding and who’s in and who’s out in the NCAA Tourney. Can MSU attain a #1 seed? Can they fall to a 3? What does the bubble look like this year? Who are the bid stealers? All these questions and more answered in this episode. Are you loo…

March 2, 2025: MSU continued its winning ways and its second half surges by defeating Wisconsin 71-62 on Sunday afternoon in East Lansing. Despite being down 2 at halftime, Michigan State had to be feeling ok knowing that Jase Richardson had hardly played because of foul trouble and would be back in the second. Jaden Akins led the way on offense in…

February 28, 2025: Michigan State returns home on Sunday for its only meeting against the Badgers of Wisconsin in what will be an elimination game for them in the Big Ten race. This is not your usual Wisconsin team as the Badgers have an average pace of play and shoot great posing a challenge to MSU’s 3 point defense. Meanwhile, on the other end of…

February 26, 2025: Well, that was probably the most improbable heave for a win in Tom Izzo’s career. Michigan State led by two or three possessions down the stretch in the second half only to give up the lead with Maryland hitting multiple free throws. Then up 2 with under 1 minute to play, Tre Holloman made an almost unthinkable mistake with a bad…

February 24, 2025: Michigan State is back in first place after their decisive win against rival Michigan but the schedule doesn’t get any easier. On Wednesday night, MSU might have its most difficult game yet on the road as they travel to College Park, Maryland to take on the Terrapins. The Terrapins are on a 4 game winning streak and have won 10 o…

February 21, 2025: Michigan State pulled off the upset of Michigan in Ann Arbor 75-62 to take sole possession of first place in the Big Ten on Friday night. It was a game where MSU started out strong to take a 16-8 lead but then got hit with hesitant offense and shots and gave up a UM 15-0 run to find themselves down by 8. The Spartans battled back…

February 20, 2025: After back to back victories over Illinois and Purdue, MSU now heads to Ann Arbor a half game behind the Wolverines for first place in the Big Ten. It’s fair to say that the race for the top has now come down to MSU, UM, and Wisconsin. Michigan State will play UM twice and Wisconsin once at home over the next 5 games. Although UM…

February 18, 2025: Michigan State followed up its upset road win in Champaign with a statement win over the Purdue Boilermakers, 75-66 in East Lansing. Purdue has had MSU’s number of late winning 8 of the last 9 meetings but had no answers for the Spartans at the rim as they gave up 10 dunks and 10 layups en route to an easy win for MSU. As usual, …

February 16, 2025: Michigan State just beat the Illini in Champaign and now they return home with a challenging game against fellow Big Ten leader, Purdue. The Boilers are tied in the standings with the Spartans one game back from UM. This will be the only meeting between the two. After looking awful against the Hoosiers, the Spartans pulled a 180 …

February 15, 2025: Michigan State pulled off an improbable road win over Illinois where they started down 16 and won by 14. Perhaps more strangely, they closed the game on a 15-negative 2 run (a goal tending call got reversed). The win came in large part behind Illinois choosing to spend too much time behind the 3 point line where they shot only 21…

February 13, 2025: Michigan State heads back on the road for a rematch against Illinois. The matchup earlier at the Breslin turned out well for the green and white as they got star player, Kasparas Jakucionas, in foul trouble and squeaked out a 2 point victory. Champaign has not been a kind road environment for the Spartans in the recent past and a…

February 12, 2025: Michigan State lost a very disappointing game late on Tuesday night to Indiana and its sloppy zone 71-67. Despite a great start to the game with MSU up 20-8, the Hoosiers switched to a lazy 2-3 zone and gummed up the Spartans’ offense the remainder of the game. By playing slow they took MSU completely out of its game and played a…

February 9, 2025: Michigan State took care of business against Oregon with a second half performance for the ages. We’re sure Tom Izzo hopes his team won’t need any heroics to knock off the Hoosiers in East Lansing to record his 354th Big Ten win. The Hoosiers are a team in disarray as head coach Mike Woodson announced last week that he would be re…

February 8, 2025: Michigan State returned home to East Lansing and played two strange halves of basketball. In the first half, Oregon torched the Spartans for 50 points and led by 14 at the half. But roles reversed in the second where MSU scored 50 and held the Ducks to 24 allowing for a 12 point win, 84-72. On offense, the Spartans were led by Fre…

February 5, 2025: Michigan State returns from Los Angeles with a two game losing streak after having won 13 straight. So MSU will look to right the ship with another former Pac-12 team, the Oregon Ducks. Oregon has had a strange year in that they started 11-0 with a lot of Quad 1 wins but have only gone 5-7 since beginning Big Ten play with 3 of th…

February 4, 2025: Michigan State took on UCLA to finish their first Big Ten west coast trip. Unlike the game at USC, the Spartans came out of the gate with their hair on fire and competed hard charging to an early lead. Unfortunately, MSU started turning it over and UCLA built a 7 point lead at halftime, 35-28. Despite the Spartans trying to fight …

February 2, 2025: MSU heads to the storied Pauley Pavilion on Tuesday night to take on the red hot UCLA Bruins. The Bruins have won 5 straight after losing 4 in a row in the Big Ten. One thing to note about the current win streak for the Bruins is that it has all occurred in the pacific West. It should be a good challenge for the Spartans as they t…

February 1, 2025: Well, it was bound to happen even though we never like to see it, MSU falls to USC 70-64 on the road for their first loss in the Big Ten season. It was a game that USC led wire to wire by capitalizing on early Michigan State miscues and getting some timely offensive rebounds to drive the lead up to 15 early. Star Desmond Claude le…

January 30, 2025: Head West young man. Michigan State is leaving the Midwest for the not-so-friendly confines of Los Angeles for their doubleheader with USC and UCLA. Three time zones and over 2000 miles away they will find themselves first at the Galen Center taking on first year coach Eric Musselman and his entirely new roster of transfers. USC s…

January 28, 2025: The Spartan train just keeps on rolling as MSU blasts the Gophers 73-51 to sweep the season series between the teams and move to 18-2 overall and 9-0 in the Big Ten. This game MSU did it largely on the boards crushing Minnesota 40-22 and finishing with a 42% offensive rebounding rate and only giving up 16% to the Gophers. Offensiv…

January 26, 2025: Michigan State will look to continue its winning streak as it hosts Minnesota on Tuesday night. MSU took care of business in Minneapolis in December but this the Gophers are on a bit of a hot streak. They’ve won 3 straight including home wins over UM and Oregon and a road win in Iowa City. Minnesota’s success is primarily due to t…

January 25, 2025: Michigan State came into Madison Square Garden which has been something of a house of horror for the Spartans - and defeated the Rutgers Scarlet Knights 81-74. The win keeps MSU alone atop the Big Ten at 8-0 and extends their winning streak to 12 games. It also makes the 37th straight year with a winning season - longest in the Bi…

January 24, 2025: For now, there are only 2 new players scheduled to join the green and white next year, Cam Ward and Jordan Scott. Like Ward, Scott is also from the DMV - not typical recruiting territory for Tom Izzo and the two will be the first Spartans to hail from there since Carlton Valentine in the 80s. Scott brings a diverse game where he p…

January 22, 2025: MSU now holds onto first place all by themselves at 7-0 after their exciting win over Illinois. They head to Madison Square Gardens for a semi-away game against Rutgers. MSG has not been kind to the Spartans in the past as they are 0-4 in Champions Classic games and lost two years ago to Rutgers in a similar matchup. The Green & W…

January 19, 2025: Michigan State hosted Illinois in their first real matchup of conference heavyweights and managed to hang on for an 80-78 win. As Rod predicted in the pregame, it came down to a one possession game with two teams taking away the others’ strengths. The teams were even on the boards, transition points, FG%, turnovers, free throw att…

January 17, 2025: In what is probably the most anticipated matchups of the year to date, Michigan State will host Illinois on Sunday afternoon. The game pits two of the top 15 teams in the country and maybe the top in the Big Ten. To date, MSU is riding a 10 game winning streak and is 6-0 in the league but has yet to play any team with a winning re…

January 15, 2025: Well, MSU returned home from Evanston and had only a few days to prep for a pesky Penn State team and was pushed but ultimately won 90-85. It was a less than stellar defensive performance from the Spartans as they largely had no answer for the Nittany Lions’ ball screens.Fortunately, the Spartans were good on the offensive boards …