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It’s hard to forget Yaxel Lendeborg’s euro poster dunk against St. Louis in the Round of 32, or Morez Johnson Jr.’s alley-oop poster over Coen Carr against Michigan State in the regular-season finale. But a dunk Michigan fans likely won’t forget anytime soon, considering the emphatic reaction from the bench, is Oscar Goodman’s poster dunk […]
TOC Nation, I know most of us are not pleased with the chain of events we have seen in East Lansing over the past few weeks. As Tom Izzo said yesterday in his brief comments to the media, it is up to all of the Spartan community to get things moving in the right direction. […]
Long-time Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo has been outspoken about many things. That now includes the shakeup at the higher level of the university. On Monday, Izzo came forward to offer his take on the recent departure of University President Kevin Guskiewicz, per ESPN’s Pete Thamel. He specifically called out the Board of Trustees. […] The post Michigan State’s Tom Izzo goes on ‘disgusted’ rant on school president departure appeared first on ClutchPoints .
Earlier today, the Big Ten announced the confirmed conference matchups for the 2026-2027 Big Ten women’s basketball season. As a result, we now know which teams Rutgers will play at home and which teams they will play on the road. That list is as follows: Home: Illinois, Michigan State, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State, Purdue, UCLA, […]
Evaluating a successful era for Michigan State and picking who we'd put on the Mount Rushmore for the Spartans since the turn of the century.
Just a couple hours before midnight and the deadline for withdrawing from the NBA Draft, Michigan State’s All-American point guard announced he would be coming back for another season in East Lansing. Jeremy Fears Jr. certainly used up about as much of the clock as possible before finally announcing his decision. For Tom Izzo, the […]
Like Carlos Medlock Jr., Ethan Taylor spent his senior season of high school at Link Academy. To better understand Taylor’s high school accomplishments and how they might translate to Michigan State, we thought it might be helpful to first take a quick look at Link Academy and where it fits into the high school basketball […]
As we move forward with more men’s basketball player reviews, it’s now time to analyze the season of Nick Martinelli, the 6-foot-7 senior forward from Glenview, Ill. The Good Some pundits of Big Ten basketball thought that Nick Martinelli would regress in his senior season without a supporting cast of Brooks Barnhizer, Jalen Leach, Ty Berry […]
Yesterday, the Michigan State Men’s Basketball Team announced that Divine Ugochukwu was leaving the team and entering the transfer portal. At TOC, we were getting ready to write an article comparing the amount of portal defections among all the Big Ten schools as we expected to have a big zero next to our name. So […]
On3 broke the latest MSU Basketball news just a few minutes ago. It is still not on MSU’s social media or website, but the above post convinces me that this is legitimate news. From the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, Anton Bonke stands 7’2” tall and weighs 270 pounds. Obviously, he brings some tremendous […]
It’s a good feeling when you can see some talent in a young NHL Draft prospect in the coming years and then hitch your wagon to that player, to then have that guy turn into an absolute stud. Well, it turns out that some NHL players to the same little bit of pre-scouting for their team. Porter Martone has been a godsend for this Philadelphia Flyers team. As soon as he joined them after his season with Michigan State was over, this team’s offense took a whole new look and felt so much more ...
Among the perks of being a writer for The Only Colors has been the chance to meet some of the behind-the-scene people in the Michigan State Athletic Department. One such person who I have met and spoken with on a few occasions is the athletic trainer for the Men’s Basketball Team, Nicholas Richey. Nick was […]
Okay, maybe this isn’t Tom Izzo’s Wishlist. But it should be – somebody send him the link! Here are four centers that I think Michigan State should be pursuing in the transfer portal – two that may be more of a reach and two that may be more realistic. I’ll be referencing On3’s list of […]
Happy Friday. It is a gorgeous day here in Detroit with temps hitting 70. It’s nice enough outside to make me forget about the end of our basketball and hockey seasons. Still have work to do here at TOC, though. We had a couple questions about the basketball team for you this week. In question […]
The race for our Rookie of the Year came down to some obvious candidates: Gavin McKenna of Penn State, Porter Martone of Michigan State and Ethan Wyttenbach of Quinnipiac.Because of how close this is, we decided, for the first time, to step back and do some deep statistical analysis, with the help of Claude.In the end, it went to Martone, who has already signed a contract with the Philadelphia Flyers...
In a conversation with Tim Staudt on The Game 730 AM in East Lansing, Michigan, Michigan State Spartans coach Tom Izzo stated that he has scheduled a non-conference matchup with coach Mark Few and the Gonzaga Bulldogs for the 2026-27 season. No date or official location is set, but the game will reportedly be played […]
In a conversation with Tim Staudt on The Game 730 AM in East Lansing, Michigan, Michigan State Spartans coach Tom Izzo stated that he has scheduled a non-conference matchup with coach Mark Few and the Gonzaga Bulldogs for the 2026-27 season. No date or official location is set, but the game will reportedly be played […]
It’s the first survey of the offseason. We have one question looking back on what went wrong for the basketball team and one question with an eye toward the immediate future. Please take our survey Want more surveys in your life? Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. And also, pay attention […]
Recapping the Sweet 16 triumph over Michigan State and Sunday's matchup against Duke.
UConn men’s basketball took down Michigan State in Friday night’s Sweet 16 matchup, setting up a big game against Duke on Sunday with a Final Four berth on the line. Where else would you rather be? The Huskies jumped out to a big early lead before the Spartans punched back, briefly taking the lead before […]
UConn men’s basketball is headed to the Elite Eight for the third time in four years and the 14th time ever, defeating Michigan State 67-63. After opening up a 19-point lead in the first half, UConn let Michigan St. climb back into the game, eventually re-taking the lead in the second half. Tarris Reed led […]
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. […]
UConn men’s basketball and Michigan State have faced off eight previous times officially in a series that dates back to 1989. The matchups have taken place literally all over the globe — from a heartbreaking 2009 Final Four UConn loss in Detroit to a Huskies win in Maui in 2010 to another UConn win at […]