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As we enjoy what feel like the first hints of Spring and a rare February week of pleasant weather here in the Midwest, there is perhaps no better time to turn our attention to America’s national pastime and the 2026 Spartan Baseball squad. Michigan State will enter their 18th year of the Jake Boss era, […]
The #1 ranked Michigan State Hockey team returns home this weekend to face the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame. Thursday night’s game is at 7:30pm and Friday’s is at 6:00pm with both games on BTN. For those that don’t have B1G +, this is a great weekend to watch some Spartan hockey. MSU is not […]
Welcome to this week’s survey. One real simple question for you all. I want to see how you think MSU fares in its final five regular season games. Oh yeah, I also want to see how many of you are missing games when they are on Peacock. Want more surveys in your life? Sign up […]
Michigan State started this one off with strong defense and forced UCLA into some tough midrange shots that they somehow got to fall early before a Jordan Scott three got the Spartans on the board. Coen Carr welcomed Xavier Booker back to the Breslin Center with a quick baseline dunk with an assist from Jaxon […]
We are in the back half of February now, meaning March Madness is rapidly approaching. Time for our Spartans to get out of their annual slump and turn the jets on. And it starts tonight with a visit from the Bruins and former Spartan Xavier Booker. The jump ball is at 8:30 PM ET and […]
Last year, Jase Richardson made his first start as a Spartan in the 23rd game of the season against Oregon. Richardson scored a career high of 29 points that day as MSU had a huge second half and came back to beat the Ducks at home. This year, Jordan Scott also got his first start […]
The Michigan State Spartans struggled defensively against the Wisconsin Badgers on Friday night, and we’ve begun to see a concerning trend over the last few weeks. They gave up 92 points to Wisconsin, which is MSU’s highest points allowed so far this season in Big Ten play. The other highest are against Michigan (83), Illinois […]
Michigan State is coming off an embarrassing showing in Madison as the Badgers absolutely dominated every aspect of the game. This week, MSU is back home to take on the Bruins, Feb 17 at 8:30pm on Peacock. UCLA Overview Valentine’s Day had no love for the Bruins as they were manhandled by 30 points in […]
Michigan State Women’s Basketball traveled to Ann Arbor today for a rematch with #7 Michigan. The Spartans entered the game at 20-5 overall and 9-5 in the Big Ten, which put MSU in sixth place in the Conference. Michigan came in at 21-4 overall and second in the Big Ten at 12-2. How we got […]
Here are the results of this week’s survey questions, and we have already seen at least some of the results to what we asked you to make a call on. In last night’s game vs. Wisconsin, Denham Wojcik played 8 minutes in relief of Jeremy Fears. To the best of my memory, no other player […]
That was not the performance you wanted after your most recent Illinois win. Wisconsin showed up ready to shoot – they hit back-to-back threes to start the game, but Coen Carr responded with a three-pointer and five points of his own. Michigan State followed that up with four consecutive misses by Jeremy Fears and Carson […]
It has been a full six days since the Spartans took to the court. Hopefully that layoff has the team recharged and ready to make a run down the stretch to contend for the conference crown. It starts tonight with a roadie against the Badgers. Are we in store for another nailbiter or can MSU […]
Happy Friday. And for those of you in lower Michigan (and anywhere else this applies), I hope you enjoy temperatures getting into the 40s this weekend. This was a rough winter, but we are starting to get it behind us. But don’t spend all your time outside because we still got Spartans on the television. […]
Michigan State is coming off a huge home win against Illinois but their last road trip was a disaster. The Spartans struggled terribly for 37 minutes at Minnesota on February 4 before a comeback effort in the last few minutes ultimately fell short. This week, MSU travels to the Kohl Center in Madison, WI to […]
Right around this time last year, Jaden Akins, Jase Richardson, and the Michigan State Spartans were gearing up for a dominant seven game win streak to close out conference play and secure the Big Ten Title by three whole games. While this season’s push for the B1G Regular Season Championship is far from over, it’s […]
Survey time for TOC Nation. We are looking at both our basketball teams with this week’s questions. First up, there is the question facing Tom Izzo and his staff on what to do about the point guard rotation since the injury to Divine Ugochukwu. Jeremy Fears played an (assumedly) unsustainable 43 minutes against Illinois. How […]
It was a Saturday to remember for the Green & White. The Women’s Basketball Team got it started in the afternoon with a road win at Penn State. In the evening, the Hockey Team finished their regular-season series against our rivals with a dominant win at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit. I attended that game […]
The Spartans headed into the weekend with big possibilities and equally large expectations and managed to take 4 of the 6 points available to put them ahead in the conference by one point with 6 games remaining. The frustrating fact is they had 6 completely within reach and let it slip away. Over the two […]
You may want to re-read the last paragraph of Lucas’ game preview for this game because that’s what the Spartans did tonight. After a few days of internal debate, Tom Izzo decided to start Jeremy Fears after the Michigan State floor general’s style of play was questioned in the last two games. This probably didn’t […]
Alright TOC Nation, it’s time for us to pump some good vibes into our basketball team to help Izzo’s squad avoid a third consecutive defeat. The #5 Illini invade the Breslin Center and it feels a little like our last chance to get a resume-building win, as our two remaining games against ranked opponents will […]
This week’s results of our survey questions may be a little skewed as I imagine most of the voting occurred prior to Wednesday evening’s defeat at Minnesota. Certainly, we would have received some different, less positive, results had we dropped these questions on Thursday. That said, here is how TOC Nation voted. Just under half […]
When the fifth ranked Illinois Fighting Illini arrive at the Breslin Center on Saturday evening, it will have been two weeks to the day since MSU beat the brakes off of Maryland, 91-48, to improve to 18-2 (8-1 B1G) on the season. Vibes were high in East Lansing, with another top-10 squad seemingly destined to […]
Happy Friday. Okay so it was not a good past 7 days for our two basketball programs. Fortunately, the hockey team represented Sparta with a pair of road wins at Penn State. This week, the hockey team has another pair of games away from Munn against a highly rated opponent. And our basketball teams are […]
This weekend is set up to be quite a weekend on the ice as #1 Michigan will face the #2 Spartans on Friday night at 7pm at Yost Ice Arena. Friday’s game will be available on FS1. Saturday is the Duel in the D at Little Caesars Arena at 6:30pm on BTN. If the Spartans […]
In case you missed the news, I’ve joined the team at The Only Colors as writer number five. It’s great to officially write my first official TOC article. Jokes on me that I picked to write the recap for the Minnesota game, right? Tom Izzo decided to go with a new starting lineup and gave […]