The Final Four Is Not On The Schedule - A Podcast Discussing Michigan State Basketball.

November 14, 2025: Tom Izzo just (probably) finished up one of his most successful recruiting classes of his career with the announcement from Ethan Taylor of Shawnee Mission, KS. Taylor is the consensus #2 center in the high school class and measures in at 7’ 1.5” 245 pounds with a 7’4” wing span.

Taylor is skilled around the basket and athletic - not afraid to mix it up inside and score. During the last EYBL season he averaged 73...

November 13, 2025: Michigan State defeated the other Spartans, San Jose State 79-60 at the Breslin Center. The game was sandwiched between two big games, Arkansas and Kentucky in the Champions Classic next Tuesday. Despite getting out to a huge halftime lead 46-23 on San Jose State, the second half was a very different animal for MSU.

San Jose State started to get a little comfortable and closed the 23 point half time deficit to 10...

November 12, 2025: Bracket Dom of Bracketometry.com is America's number one rated bracketologist and weighs in with his early season top 4 seed lines for each region. Dom Ranks the power conferences and top 4 seed lines in all four regions.

Conferences: Big Ten, Big 12, SEC, ACC, Big East

1 - Houston, Purdue, Louisville, Alabama 2 - Duke, UConn, Arizona, Illinois 3 - Kentucky, Florida, St. John's, Michigan 4 - Michigan State, Gonza...

November 10, 2025: Coming off an exciting and physical win at the Breslin Center against the 14th ranked Arkansas Razorbacks, Michigan State welcomes former Nebraska coach Tim Miles and his squad from San Jose State. The ‘other’ Spartans from San Jose have been a team that has struggled for years in the Mountain West and have managed only 46 win over the last 3 years. Unfortunately for them, that is the best 3 year stretch for the ...

November 8, 2025: Michigan State is now 84-1 at the Breslin Center in November under Tom Izzo after defeating Arkansas 69-66 in a nail biter. Despite shooting just 1-14 (7%) from 3 pt range, the Spartans managed to top the Razorbacks largely due to their domination on the offensive glass (53% offensive miss rebounding rate).

The game took something of a surprising turn with freshman Cam Ward called on early due to foul trouble for ...

November 6, 2025: Welcome to the Brackeotology Update with America’s number one bracketologist, Bracket Dom. Today we talked about what makes a good bracketologist, who is over and underrated in college hoops, which conferences are best, and what are this week’s best matchups.

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November 6, 2025: Michigan State is now entering the season in full throttle as they host the #14 ranked Arkansas Razorbacks led by legendary head coach, John Calipari. Like MSU, Arkansas is 1-0 after cruising to a victory over Southern University by 32.

The Razorbacks feature freshman phenom, Darius Acuff from Cass Tech in Detroit, who will play the point and looked very good in their opener. Acuff finished with 22 points (8-13 an...

November 5, 2025: Michigan State began just landed 4* top 40 recruit Jasiah Jervis from White Plains, NY. Jervis is a lethal two way 6’5” guard with 6’9” wing span known for his shooting and disruptive defense - just the kind of player that Tom Izzo values.

Jervis joins the 2026-27 class of Medlock Jr. and Avant and we expect him to be joined very soon with 5* 7’1” Ethan Taylor from Missouri. This recruiting class may very well be ...

November 3, 2025: Michigan State began it’s season tonight at the Breslin Center with a win over Colgate 80-69. Despite a poor night shooting free throws (65%) MSU used its immense rebounding edge to overwhelm the team from the Patriot League racking up 19 offensive rebounds for an impressive 54% rate.

The Raiders hung tough keeping the game with 3 points at half but were unable to keep the MSU transition and rebounding game in che...

November 1, 2025: Michigan State begins its 2025-26 season on Monday night at the Breslin Center with a matchup against the Colgate Raiders of the Patriot League. The Raiders are coming off a down year but have been a traditional power in the league with multiple NCAA bids over the last 8 years under successful coach, Matt Langel.

The Spartans will look to build upon last year’s elite 8 run and Big Ten championship with some famili...

October 28, 2025: Michigan State wrapped up its exhibition play Tuesday night at UConn where the Spartans lost 76-69 to the #4 team in the country. It was a game which was a little hard to watch as there were so many fouls called and nearly 75 total free throws. Despite MSU coming up short, there were a lot of positives that came out of the game.

One good sign was that after getting handled on the boards for the Bowling Green game ...

October 26, 2025: Michigan State will wrap up its exhibition season on Tuesday night in Storrs, CT as they take on Danny Hurley and his UConn Huskies. After winning back to back national titles in 2023 & 24, the Huskies had a little bit of a slide last year earning an 8 seed and getting knocked out of the tournament in the second round last year.

But they appear to be ready to have a good season with some returning veterans and new...

October 23, 2025: Michigan State unofficially began its 2025-26 season tonight in an exhibition matchup against the visiting Bowling Green Falcons 75-66. It was our first opportunity to watch the Spartans in action and there were some moments that didn’t disappoint.

We expected MSU to have another good rebounding year and this game they did not show that. However, the jumpshooting seemed better and the roster overall looks to be ve...

October 21, 2025: Welcome back to the basketball season! We’re excited to get going again and we lead off today with our preview of Michigan State’s first exhibition game - the Bowling Green Falcons. As you may recall, Bowling Green played at the Breslin last season but this time it’s both teams’ exhibition openers.

The Falcons were middle of the pack of the MAC last year and are projected similarly again this year. Led by their lo...

October 16, 2025: We’ve finally made it through all the Big Ten previews and have arrived at Michigan State. Last year, Rod had MSU at #5 and the team went out and lapped the field by 3 games. This year, we have them as #2 but with all the variability because of the transfer portal - it’s really anyone’s guess. Outside of Purdue looking really, really good.

The Spartans are coming off a fantastic season in which they returned to th...

October 13, 2025: Matt Painter has had a great run at Purdue and has gotten the proverbial monkey off the back of Boilermakers by having success in the NCAA Tournament. He has done what no one else has done in West Lafayette - translate regular season success into post season success.

The Boilers look to be loaded coming into this year with a return of their injured 7’4” center, another almost 7 footer, and the core of Smith, Kaufm...

October 11, 2025: Michigan and Dusty May just got a very wealthy benefactor for their athletics program allowing them to be more than competitive in the transfer market. Resources have always been a little bit of a struggle for the Wolverines but not anymore. They’ve opened the wallet and have one of the highest sought after transfers, Yaxel Lendenborg from UAB. He looks to replace departing Danny Wolf at the 4 and might even be a ...

October 11, 2025: UCLA will begin its 2025-26 season with a little Big Ten experience under its belt. Last year’s team managed a decent finish but seemed to struggle with the travel schedule required to be a part of the league. This year’s team has some very important returning players and intriguing transfers but will face the same brutal travel.

Of note to MSU fans is the transfer of much maligned McDonald’s All-American, Xavier ...

October 9, 2025: Former Purdue standout and current college (and soon to be NBA) color analyst, Robbie Hummel, joins us again today to talk about the Big Ten and college basketball. Robbie is a rising start within the college basketball analyst ranks and brings great insight both as a former player and fan of the game.

In this episode, Hummel gives us his take on Purdue’s incoming super team, what the rest of the league has, MSU, a...