It is time to revive an annual tradition, one that goes back many generations, and decide on nicknames for our Michigan State Spartans Basketball Team. I know we are coming off an upsetting loss last night, but let’s not let that cloud our thought process and remember this is still a very good team. Okay, […]
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Happy Friday, TOC Nation. Feels like there has been an abundance of articles these past two days. Hope you all are enjoying having content again after a few quieter weeks here. This past week, we asked you for your thoughts on MSU’s new offensive coordinator, Nick Sheridan. I have to admit that the results surprised […]
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Before the game started, it was announced that Divine Ugochukwu was out with an illness. Kur Teng got the start at shooting guard. Even without missing a starter, we knew this was going to be a tough game. I don’t think anyone imagined it being as ugly as it was. There was a slow start […]
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Here we go! Big Ten conference play is in full effect, and we are getting 2026 started with a top 25 matchup as our #9 Spartans visit the undefeated #13 Nebraska Cornhuskers. Time to see if MSU can pick its level of play back up to what it was when we were taking down ranked […]
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I hope you all enjoyed your New Year’s. Good luck to you all with your resolutions. The new year is already off and running for MSU as our Women’s Basketball Team picked up a road win over Indiana yesterday. And we have plenty of action coming up over the next week. Let’s take a look. […]
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The college football transfer portal officially opened at the stroke of midnight last night. Up to this point, TOC has kept a list of Spartans who have announced they were going to be entering the portal. Now we will begin a new tracker with players who officially submit their names. We will also use this […]
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Michigan State concluded their non-conference schedule with Monday’s 114-97 win over Cornell so it’s conference play from now until the NCAA tournament for the Spartans, starting tomorrow with a trip to Nebraska. The Spartans enter this matchup at 12-1 and 2-0 in the Big Ten while the Cornhuskers are also 2-0 in the league but […]
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A couple months back, the TOC staff shared our predictions for the 2025-26 basketball season. Two months later, with the non-conference portion of the schedule complete, we will look back at those predictions and see if our beliefs have changed. All four of us share our new predictions for Big Ten record, Big Ten finish, […]
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After taking last week off from the surveys, we are back at it. We have a question regarding the quarterfinals of the CFP. To remind you all, in last year’s 1st-ever 12-team field, all four teams that had the opening round bye got knocked off immediately by teams that played the week earlier. So we […]
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Even though we were warned in the leadup to this game that the Big Red of Cornell are a very good three-point shooting team, this game did not go quite like I imagined it would. But once the game got started, the Big Red were red hot. They scored the first bucket for a 2-0 […]
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The Spartans took care of business in Grand Rapids by becoming the first back to back tournament champions since 2014-2015. The McGuiness Cup will be back at Munn for another year. MSU played exactly as they should have on Sunday night, defeating Ferris State 5-2. Two goals came from GLI tournament MVP, Charlie Stramel with […]
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Last non-con game of the regular season and MSU is welcoming an Ivy League squad so that Denham Wojcik can play a familiar opponent. The Cornell Big Red enter the Breslin tonight at 7 PM. The game will be on FS1. Let’s finish out 2025 strong!
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Today at 7pm Michigan State faces off against Ferris State. Coverage is on B1G+. Game two will be on Monday, December 29 with opponent and game time TBD. Could this tourney be the coming out party for Cayden Lindstrom? Let the discussion begin!
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After a long holiday break the Spartans head back to the ice in the 59th Great Lakes Invitational on December 28 and 29. This will be the Spartans 49th time in the tournament and will be looking to repeat as champions. This will be another tough go as they will be without freshman forward Porter […]
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I hope you all enjoyed your Christmas yesterday. Now it is time to get back to MSU sports, and we have all our teams on the schedule with multiple games for each. MEN’S BASKETBALL Monday, December 29 Who: Michigan State Vs. Cornell When: 7 PM ET Where: Breslin Center; East Lansing, MI Records: MSU (11-1); […]
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Well, it’s December 24 today which means Santa’s elves are loading up the sleigh while Mr. Claus is carb-loading for his big trek around the globe tonight. For us humans, it is time to make sure the chimney is clean, the milk and cookies are fresh, and our wish lists are finalized. Us here at […]
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Reports are starting to come in that Pat Fitzgerald will add Nick Sheridan to MSU’s football staff as the offensive coordinator. Sheridan is currently Alabama’s co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. Sheridan followed Kalen DeBoer from Washington, where he was the Huskies’ tight ends coach, to Alabama after the 2023 season. He served as the Tide’s […]
about 2 months ago | 1 read
Tom Izzo and Greg Kampe arrived at the annual meeting between the Spartans and Golden Grizzlies donning matching Christmas sweaters in what is becoming a holiday tradition. Well, they were almost matching. Each sweater featured the coach arguing with a referee but Izzo’s sweater said “Naughty” while Kampe earned the “Nice” list. Apparently Tom’s wife, […]
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Time for our annual (can I say “Rivalry”?) game against the Oakland Grizzlies from Little Caesars Arena in Detroit. Last year gave us the wonderful photo of two head coaches in matching sweaters. I am looking forward to seeing how these two outdo themselves this year. Oh, and there is also a basketball game. But […]
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Happy Friday, TOC Nation. Here are the results from our two survey questions this week as well as the results of the four national survey questions. If you want to partake in those questions moving forward, you can sign up for that here. The first question we asked this week turned out to be our […]
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I am really getting bored of all these light weeks in the Michigan State Athletic Department. But that is what the next 7 days will be. Still no hockey, one men’s basketball game, and two for the women. MEN’S BASKETBALL Saturday, December 20 Who: Michigan State Vs. Oakland When: Noon ET Where: Little Caesars Arena; […]
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Four Big Ten schools fired their head football coaches during, or shortly after, the 2025 season. Penn State and UCLA both made their moves midway through the season while Michigan State and Michigan did so immediately or shortly after the season’s conclusion. PSU, UCLA, and MSU have since filled their vacancies while UM is currently […]
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Hey everyone, time for this week’s survey questions. First up, we are looking back at some of the big individual performances we have seen from our basketball team. Which one has been the most impressive one of the bunch? And second, new head football coach Pat Fitzgerald is continuing to assemble his coaching staff. So […]
about 2 months ago | 4 reads
Usually when I am responsible for writing the recap articles, I take notes and draft the article as the game is going on. Tonight, at halftime, I was typing out paragraphs about all the good things I was seeing. You are not going to get to read those paragraphs; I deleted them about midway through […]
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The two December Big Ten games are out of the way, and now MSU has a trio of non-major teams to get through to wrap up 2025. The stretch begins today against the Toledo Rockets. Our Spartans are favored by 24.5. I’m personally calling for a 30-point win. Got to clean up the mistakes from […]
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