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

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 yet committed to another program. Xavier Booker has...

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 two in this game and didn’t help themselves with p...

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. Of course, Auburn is a top rated offensive and d...

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 suspected the Rebels would need in order to win. The diff...

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 uncharacteristic 50% 3 point shooting. There are a number of way...

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 2 point advantage over MSU into the locker room....

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. New Mexico is led by all everything point guard, D...

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 lead heading into half time. The first half star of...

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 assistant the last time Bryant received a bid. Bryant w...

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 again to discuss the strange development in this ye...

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 MSU will wait for selection Sunday to find out their...

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 was pretty even as Oregon made a quick push to cut...

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 leading to a very comfortable win for the good guys. Or...

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 where they clamped down on the Wolverines on defense...

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 opposite directions. MSU has not stopped winning whether...

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 was up by as many as 14 points where they had flip...

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 inconceivably bad. Iowa’s star big man, Owen Freem...

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 looking for collegiate apparel including Spartan gear...

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 the first half as he got hot from three draining...

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 the floor Wisconsin plays decent defense but is n...

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 pass in the back court leading to 2 free throws b...

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 of their last 12. A solid team both offensively and...

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 to pull within 4 at the half. The second half was...

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 sits at 12-2 atop the league, their record may be...

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, it was a collective team win for Michigan State wi...