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Michigan State Reacts Survey Results
Happy Madness Eve, TOC Nation. This week we asked for your predictions on the Men’s and Women’s Basketball Teams results for the opening weekend of their respective tournaments. Ladies first, even though they will start tournament play a day later. Impressively, 58% believe Robyn Fralick’s squad will pick up two wins, the second of which […]
2026 Women’s NCAA Tournament 1st Round Preview: Michigan State vs Colorado State
For the 3rd season in a row, the Michigan State Women’s Basketball Team is going dancing. This is the most consecutive trips for the Spartans since they made six straight appearances under former coach Suzy Merchant from 2008-09 through 2013-14. This team has not made it out of the first weekend since the first year […]
2026 NCAA Tournament 1st Round Preview: Michigan State vs North Dakota State
For the 28th season in a row, Tom Izzo and the Michigan State Spartans are dancing. Sunday’s Selection Show revealed that MSU would be a 3-seed in the 2026 NCAA Tournament, and tasked with a first round matchup in Buffalo, NY against the Bison of North Dakota State. The first ever hardwood matchup between these […]
Reasons For Optimism
Yesterday, Mike Homes published an article about Michigan State’s defensive struggles, particularly toward the tail end of the season. Certainly, that article showed a concerning trend and could be enough to make Spartan fans feel pessimistic about our chances of making a run in this year’s tournament. Well, today I am here to try offering […]
Michigan State Reacts Survey
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Or, as it is known in certain parts of the world, particularly in Spartan Nation, Happy Wear Green Day. Time for this week’s survey questions. The NCAA Tournament begins for the Men’s Basketball Team on Thursday and for the Women’s Team on Friday. Pretty straight forward this week; let’s see what […]
The Only Colors 2026 NCAA Tournament Pool
What up TOC Nation! Time to find out who amongst us is the smartest Spartan in the land. The Only Brackets is back for the 2026 tourney. This year, as always, we are playing for bragging rights. You can submit your picks here by using the following password: TOC’26! Please set your bracket name as […]
What MSU Must Fix Before the NCAA Tournament
After watching UCLA drive and kick their way past MSU on Friday, it became clear that 1) UCLA is much improved from when they lost to the Spartans in January and 2) Michigan State needs to somehow get its defensive mojo back before the NCAA tournament. The defensive difficulties weren’t just evident against the Bruins. […]
Opening Round Odds: MSU Vs. NDSU
The bracket is out and we have seen the path the Michigan State Spartans Men’s Basketball Team must try to conquer. We did not have to wait long to see our name during the Selection Show as we ended up as the 3-seed in the region of top overall team, Duke. MSU will begin the […]
Selection Sunday 2026: March Madness bracket reveal start time, TV schedule and live streaming
Okay TOC Nation, so the Big Ten Tournament did not go the way we had hoped and expected. But we know Tom Izzo and company have already put that behind them, so we must do the same. Today, we find out our spot in the 2026 NCAA Tournament. Who our first-round opponent will be, where […]
Spartan Hockey Fails To Get It Done
Similar to their building neighbors, another Spartan team with high B1G Tourney aspirations forgets to show themselves and is sent home early. Just like the basketball team, the hockey team will now await the fallout of this loss and how it affects their NCAA tourney standing. There is not much to say about how bad […]
Big Ten Hockey Tournament Game Thread: Michigan State Vs. Ohio State
We Spartans are in desperate need of something to wash the taste of last night’s basketball game out of our mouth. Cue our hockey team! They get their Big Ten Tournament started tonight on their home ice, Munn Arena. The opponent is the Buckeyes who, as Steve mentioned in the preview, took 2 of 4 […]
B1G Tournament Instant Recap: Spartans Suffer Early Exit, Fall to UCLA 88-84
Michigan State was looking to advance to the Big Ten Tournament semi-finals for the 18th time but those hopes fell apart amidst a massive defensive breakdown against UCLA. MSU probably could have assured themselves a two-seed in the NCAA tournament with a win tonight but now may be wondering if they will fall to three […]
Big Ten Tournament Game Thread: Michigan State Vs. UCLA
The postseason begins now for our Spartans. After receiving a triple-bye, we will be the last team jumping into the Big Ten Tournament, and our quarterfinal opponent is one we defeated by 23 points a month ago. Can the Bruins make this one more competitive or will Michigan State have a cakewalk on the way […]
Michigan State Reacts Survey Results
Here we go, TOC Nation. Our Men’s Basketball Team and Hockey Team are starting postseason play today and tomorrow, respectively. We asked you this week to predict each’s Big Ten Tournament performance. On the hardwood, 65% believe we will make it to Sunday. 22% say we will win the BTT. Over at Munn Ice Arena, […]
MSU Hockey B1G Tournament Preview: Ohio State
The Spartans and Buckeyes will have a puck drop of 7:30pm on Saturday March 14 with coverage on BTN. The Buckeyes have been an odd team this season with lots of ups and downs. They played MSU in Munn two weeks ago and dominated game one and MSU snuck out with a shoot out victory […]
B1G Tournament Quarterfinal Preview: UCLA Bruins
Three options for Michigan State’s quarterfinal opponent presented themselves going into Wednesday’s Big Ten Tournament action. MSU could have faced a rematch with the opponent that handed the Spartans their worst loss of the year (#11 seed Minnesota), a team they had already beat twice but endured a struggle almost every step of the way […]
The Best of Flight 55: Coen Carr’s Top Dunks of the 2025-26 Regular Season
Welcome to Conference Tournament week! As the 2025-2026 regular season has now come to an end for Michigan State Men’s Basketball, it comes time to not only look forward to the big dance, but also take a look back at the year in review. The 25-6 (15-5) Spartans compiled an impressive resume, complete with blowout […]
Michigan State Spartans Bracketology
The regular season is behind us. The Big Ten Tournament is this week. For Michigan State Men’s Basketball, there is still a bit of uncertainty as to where we will land in this year’s field. Are the Spartans a 3-seed? A 2-seed? Could winning the BTT, along with some help elsewhere, vault us to the […]
Michigan State Reacts Survey
We are on to the Big Ten Tournaments for both the hockey and men’s basketball team. Both teams have earned byes in their respective tourneys, so at this point we do not know each team’s first opponent. Still, we are asking you to predict how each team will do in their conference tournaments. Please take […]
Michigan State Spartans’ Big Ten Tournament Odds
What up, TOC Nation! It is officially sports betting season. This article is about betting, so if you are not interested in this topic, please skip this article. There will be several of these as we go through March Madness, but I will do my best to make it clear in the title if it […]
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We are well into the month of March, and if you are a Michigan State Spartans fan, this could be shaping up to be one of the best Marches we’ve had. Our Women’s Basketball Team is heading to the NCAA Tournament looking to improve on last year by getting to the 2nd weekend. Our Men’s […]
Michigan State Loses 90-80
The Spartan defense was locked in early and a Jordan Scott blocked shot led to a runout and a Jeremy Fears to Carson Cooper alley-oop for the games first bucket on MSU’s 2nd possession. Fears would hit a triple on the next trip, and Cooper added a turnaround jumper over Aday Mara a short while […]
Game Thread: Michigan State @ um
Tom Izzo has sent out the warning shot. “We’re going to show up Sunday.” And who am I not to believe Coach. So I am expecting Michigan State to come out focused, playing some lock-down defense, pushing the pace on offense, and not letting the inevitability of the challenge crew turning this game into a […]
A Rivalry Peaks in March: Michigan State vs Michigan Preview
135 days ago, the Michigan State Basketball Spartans took to the Breslin Center court to open the 2025-26 season in an exhibition match against the Falcons of Bowling Green State University. MSU won, in a surprisingly close game, by only nine points, 75-66. Back in mid-October, in the preseason polls, Michigan State was predicted to […]
Spartans Three Peat as B1G Champions
Thursday night saw Spartan Hockey back to looking like themselves again. The Spartans dominated in all facets of the game and came out looking to make a statement on a national level. A 7-1 punch in the face to clinch the first ever conference three peat for the program. A message to the other top […]
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