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Happy Monday TOC Nation. As we begin the offseason here at TOC Headquarters, the frequency of new articles will be slowed down. No more days with multiple articles. We will strive for 5-6 a week until football previews begin in August. Some of these articles are going to be the result of some strenuous head-scratching. […]
This is usually one of my least favorite articles to write as it means the season has ended for Tom Izzo and the Men’s Basketball Team. This year, it feels even tougher for me as we just said goodbye to the guys who were freshmen when I first started working for The Only Colors. But, […]
For most of today’s regional final, it felt like a polar opposite of the Spartans’ win two days earlier against UConn. In that game, MSU escaped a game they really had no business winning. It took a career high in saves for Trey Augustine for Michigan State to escape that game. In the game against […]
I know today is a rough one for Spartan Nation. But we need to pull ourselves up and throw all our support behind the one team we have left. The Hockey Team has their regional final today against Big Ten foe Wisconsin. After being outplayed, outhustled, outshot, and out-everythinged except outscored in our game against […]
After Jaxon Kohler kicked the game off with a layup, UConn would start with back-to-back threes and took a 8-4 lead heading into the first TV timeout. Things would look bad early for Michigan State as they would miss ten straight field goals. UConn was on a 12-1 run until Trey Fort was fouled and […]
It’s been a long week of waiting for us Spartan fans, but the hour is nearly upon us. Sweet 16! Time to separate the contenders from the pretenders. If any of you are going to be at Capital One Arena for this one, try to get a “Just like hockey!” chant going in the crowd. […]
It is not often in post season play where a team can say they were out played, nearly doubled in shots on goal, and say they won the game 2-1. That is the case for the Spartans this year as they scored just enough behind the Mike Richter Finalist, Trey Augustine, to move on to […]
It’s win and move on time for Spartan hockey. After last year’s disappointing loss to Cornell, everyone was on edge as there is no way MSU could lose and waste another season with this team. Even with a multitude of penalties and being drastically outshot, the Spartans come out on top and will move on […]
Okay, so MSU Hockey forgot to show up for the Big Ten Tournament a couple weeks back after claiming the regular season championship. I have been told from a reliable source inside the MSU Athletic Department that Adam Nightingale’s team has safely arrived in Worcester, Massachusetts, for the national tournament, and they are prepared to […]
When the NCAA Tournament field was selected, the East was pegged by many as the toughest region. Tradition-rich programs Kansas, Louisville, and UCLA couldn’t advance past the tournament’s second round leaving Duke, St. John’s, Connecticut, and Michigan State to battle it out for a spot in the Final Four. As one might expect, the coaches […]
MSU Hockey is set to begin its quest for a National Title as the puck drops Thursday at 1:30pm in Worcester. ESPN 2 will have the coverage. What are the odds, that hockey and basketball would be facing UConn on the same weekend as they look to extend their seasons. The Spartans have looked a […]
Tomorrow marks the beginning of the Sweet 16 in this year’s NCAA Tournament. It is also the beginning of the NCAA Men’s Hockey Tournament, which is a 16-team field. In both competitions, our Spartans take on the UConn Huskies in an effort to move to the Elite 8 and Regional Finals, respectively. This week, I […]
Now that the dust has settled after the first weekend of this season’s edition of March Madness, sixteen teams remain in the running for a National Title. While all the seeds left in the big dance range from 1-seeds to 11-seed Texas, one fact has become abundantly clear in re-evaluations: power conferences (and favorites) have […]
We are back with another round of survey questions for you. This week, the MSU hockey team is back in action for the NCAA Tournament while the Men’s Basketball team has advanced to the Sweet 16 and looking to go further. We want to see what you think each of the two Spartan squads will […]
Michigan State won their opening weekend games to advance to the 2026 Sweet 16, two games they were the favorites in. In the next round, we find our Spartans as a slight underdog, perhaps appropriately as we are the lower seed, to the 2nd-seeded UConn Huskies. FanDuel has UConn as a 1.5-point favorite. The over/under […]
I said two things ahead of Michigan State’s matchup with Oklahoma. First, the Spartans needed to play much better than they did against Colorado State. And second, that we were going to have our hands full with the Sooners’ center, Raegan Beers. Both of those things ended up being the case. MSU coach Robyn Fralick […]
MSU is back on the road to the Frozen Four in the NCAA Tournament as a number one seed and a third straight appearance. That other team garnered the overall number 1 seed, a position that MSU had in their hands. However, things happen for a reason and I have to believe the Spartans are […]
We have a road game today as the Lady Spartans take on the Sooners in their own gym. MSU is going to need a much better outing to advance today. FanDuel has us as a 7.5-point underdog. We need TOC Nation to step up and help Robyn Fralick’s team punch their ticket to the Sweet […]
Tom Izzo is on to his 17th Sweet 16. The milestone moves him ahead of longtime Louisville coach Denny Crum, appropriate then that it was the Cardinals we defeated to make it to the next weekend. Later on Saturday, John Calipari equaled that mark with the Arkansas win over High Point, though he has done […]
Michigan State was fortunate to pull off a win against Colorado State on Friday evening. Their next opponent, the Oklahoma Sooners, had a much easier time getting past their 1st round opponent. In the last game on Friday night, the Sooners – playing in their home arena – completely victimized the Idaho Vandals, 89-59. The […]
It wasn’t pretty, but the Spartans got the job done. Add another Sweet 16 to Tom Izzo’s résumé. Coen Carr kicked off with an early five points as the game was tied heading into the first TV timeout. Kur Teng finished a 7-0 run after the break with his first three of the game. Jaxon […]
Hey everyone, before we get into this game thread, we need you to go over to yesterday’s Grid Game post and cast a vote. Now I can proceed… Our Spartans dispatched NDSU on Thursday and now move on to contest the Louisville Cardinals of the ACC. The scheduling committee decided to plug our game right […]
On Friday night, the Michigan State Women’s Basketball Team looked every bit as rusty as you would expect from a team that has not played since March 5 (and hasn’t won a game since February 22). After losing their position as a four-seed, and the hosting of first weekend games that comes with it, the […]
Yesterday, Jeremy Fears Jr. led MSU to an opening round win against the Bison of North Dakota State. Tonight, Kennedy Blair leads the Women’s Team up against the Rams of Colorado State looking to do the same. Just like the men, the women of Sparta are big favorites, per FanDuel, with a -17.5 betting line. […]
Despite someone (it doesn’t matter who) picking USF to advance and face the Spartans on Saturday, it will be MSU tipping off with the Louisville Cardinals in Buffalo, NY, at 2:45 PM on CBS. Per FanDuel, Michigan State is a slight favorite at -4.5. The over/under is 150.5. Louisville lead by as much as 23 […]