The Final Four Is Not On The Schedule - A Podcast Discussing Michigan State Basketball.

January 29, 2026: There’s been some movement in the field as teams climb in and others fall out. But no change at the top. Our four 1 seeds in order of ranking is Arizona, Duke, Michigan, UConn. Once again the bracket features a lot of high major teams. The only non-power conferences getting any love is the West Coast with St. Mary’s and Gonzaga and the Mountain West. Dom projects Utah State, San...

January 29, 2026: The game has finally arrived as rival #3 Michigan visit the Breslin Center and the #7 MSU Spartans to clash for first place in the Big Ten. In the first of two matchups this year, there is expected to be some extra juice with this game after what happened at mid court last season on Senior Night. Although we don’t expect any repeat of those antics, there is a lot riding on this g...

January 27, 2026: The Spartans looked like they were playing in a trap game when they visited Rutgers on a snowy Tuesday night before their matchup against rival Michigan on Friday night. Turnovers was the name of the game as the Spartans committed 15 of them to only 5 by Rutgers. A 9 point deficit at half time was almost too much for MSU to overcome and they got the lead down to one possession an...

January 25, 2026: The Spartans have their final game of the first half of the conference schedule on Tuesday night in Piscataway, NJ against a beleaguered Rutgers squad. MSU is coming off a 43 point thrashing of the Terrapins with their rival looming less than a week away in East Lansing. This game will certainly be a challenge for Fears and company to avoid the trap on the road and not look ahead...

January 24, 2026: Michigan State didn’t waste any time in taking care of business against Maryland today, 91-48. The struggling Terrapins showed why they have trouble scoring and defending as they couldn’t do either this afternoon. MSU, meanwhile, did just about whatever it wanted and held another team to there lowest offensive output of the season. It was an entertaining game (if you were a Spart...

January 22, 2026: Michigan State returns from the West Coast much happier than they did last year after posting a perfect 2-0 in the Pacific Northwest. Now they face a surprisingly struggling Maryland team that has only managed 1 win in 8 tries so far in conference play. This will almost assuredly be the Terrapins’ worst team since joining the Big Ten. They are sub 100 in both offense and defense....

January 21, 2026: Today’s our first bracket reveal in the new year. We have had a little shuffling of the field since we last had a show in early December. Our four 1 seeds in order of ranking is Arizona, Duke, Michigan, UConn. Once again the bracket features a lot of high major teams. The only non-power conferences getting any love is the West Coast with St. Mary’s and Gonzaga and the Mountain We...

January 20, 2026: Well, MSU did what it needed to do and completed a perfect West Coast trip by toppling the Ducks 68-52. It was far from a pretty game from the Spartans but, as they say, they got the job done. Michigan State never really got their offense working until about half way through the second half. MSU just led by 2 at the half 28-26 and were trailing by 5 in the second half until they...

January 18, 2026: MSU completes its west coast trip on Tuesday evening in Eugene. And what a season Oregon has had - and we mean that in the worst possible light - after we and many had picked them to finish somewhere in the middle to upper middle of the pack in the Big Ten, this team may struggle to not play in the first day of the Big Ten Tournament on Tuesday. 8-10 overall, 1-6 in the Big Ten a...

January 17, 2026: Well, a much better start to this West Coast trip than last year where the Spartans dropped both. This time, MSU gets the win in Seattle in a largely Spartan fan contingent arena 80-63. Michigan State led this game wire to wire leading 39-31 at half time and then kept a 5-8 point margin until a 10-0 run to cruise in with an easy double digit win. Another great game by Jeremy Fear...

January 17, 2026: Michigan State begins its West Coast trip this Saturday with a matchup against the Huskies of Washington. Last year was not a good trip for the green and white as they were swept by the California teams in LA. Izzo and company is hoping for a better swing to the Pacific time zone this time. Fortunately for the Spartans, both Washington and Oregon are struggling this year. In the...

January 13, 2026: Michigan State had its first of two matchups with the Hoosiers from Indiana tonight and won 81-60. They did this mainly on a 28-2 run to finish the game (although the Hoosiers scored the last 5 meaningless points). The game was close in the first half with Indiana leading the majority until a late push got MSU a 39-32 lead into the locker room. Jeremy Fears finished with a career...

January 10, 2026: Michigan State will host its final game of this 3 game home stand on Tuesday night as they host the Indiana Hoosiers. We are a quarter of the way thru the conference schedule already and the Spartans sit at 4-1 and tied for second in the Big Ten. Indiana, after getting surprised by the Gophers on the road to start their league play has bounced back well and is 3-2 after a heartbr...

January 8, 2026: Michigan State and its fans came away from the Northwestern game with a sigh of relief after escaping with a 10 point win. The Wildcats pushed MSU in this game leading by 7 at half time and even 7 part way through the second half. However, Tom Izzo earned himself a technical foul and that seemed to get the team rolling as they then went on a 14-2 run and eventually cruised in with...

January 6, 2026: Michigan State will look to continue their winning ways at home with a matchup against the struggling Wildcats from Northwestern on Thursday night. The 0-3 Wildcats have had a rough season to date most recently with a surprising loss at home to Minnesota. The ‘Cats are having trouble on defense and are not a good 3 point shooting team or rebounding on either end of the floor. MSU,...

January 5, 2026: After dropping its first Big Ten game of the year a few days ago to Nebraska, Michigan State returned home to take on a struggling USC Trojans team. The Spartans blitzed the Trojans, 80-51 in front of the Izzone Alumni and moved to 3-1 in conference play. It was a game where MSU struggled getting out of the gate and was down 5-0 to start. But then they went on a big run and never...

January 3, 2026: After taking the loss on the road in Lincoln, Michigan State returns home to take on the USC Trojans in something of a revenge game after losing to USC last year in Los Angeles. This USC team, however, is completely different sporting zero players who were on last year’s team. The Trojans are also coming off a 30 point beat down from the Wolverines a few days ago. The Spartans wil...

January 2, 2026: Well, we are clearly back to Big Ten play as Michigan State found itself in a defensive slugfest in Lincoln where they lost 58-56 to the 15th ranked Cornhuskers. Despite turning the ball over 19 times, the Spartans actually had a chance to steal this game even up 3 with under two minutes to go. But Nebraska made just enough shots and MSU continued to have trouble hanging onto the...

December 30, 2025: Next up for the Spartans is a return to league play with a road matchup against unbeaten Nebraska in Lincoln. The ‘Huskers are off to their best start in program history after claiming a number of high major scalps and beating the Illini in Champaign in Big Ten play. As a projected #3 seed right now, they will be a formidable foe for MSU. Michigan State, however, is no slouch ei...

December 29, 2025: Michigan State finished its last non conference game of the regular season with a tricky matchup against a high powered offensive team in Cornell. Despite giving up 53 points in the first half, the Spartans managed to hold a 2 point lead going into the break. The second half, MSU put the clamps down on the Big Red holding them to only 13 points for the first 10+ minutes of the s...

December 26, 2025: Michigan State prepares for its final non conference game of the season against Cornell on Monday night. After that, its conference play and their pursuit to defend their Big Ten title. In its final tune up, we are looking for a few things from the Spartan squad. Namely, questions about the rotation. Will we continue seeing Divine Ugochukwu at shooting guard and Denham Wojcik at...

December 22, 2025: It’s the holiday break so we decided to open the mailbag for our supporting listeners to the show and talk about Rod’s Big Ten Tiers (one to four). Tier 4: Rutgers, Minnesota, Penn State, Northwestern, Maryland. Tier 3: Oregon, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Washington Tier 2: USC, Indiana, Iowa, UCLA, Illinois Tier 1A: Nebraska Tier 1: Purdue, Michigan, Michigan State Are you looking f...

December 20, 2025: In this year’s annual ugly sweater game between MSU and Oakland, Michigan State comes away from the game with a 79-70 win at Little Caesar’s Arena in Detroit. It wasn’t MSU’s best game of the season as they struggled to get into any sort of offensive flow and were down as much as 7 points in the first half but managed to squeeze out a 3 point lead at the half. The second half wa...

December 20, 2025: Today’s our first bracket reveal of the year. You can check it out at www.bracketometry.com. Not a whole lot of movement at the top of the field with UM still commanding the overall number 1 spot. Dom’s last 4 in are NC State, UCF, Arizona State, and Oklahoma. Last 4 out are Wisconsin, Butler, Boise State, and Virginia Tech. As for conference berths we have the Big Ten, Big 12,...

December 18, 2025: Michigan State will once again have their annual matchup against Greg Kampe and his Oakland Grizzlies. This year the game is in Detroit at Little Caesar’s Arena and is sure to feature two grumpy coaches wearing ugly sweaters. Although Oakland hasn’t won in 22 tries, they will probably give MSU a competitive and challenging game. Despite MSU’s 10-1 record, there are a lot of ques...