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

January 22, 2026: Michigan State returns from the West Coast much happier than they did last year after posting a perfect 2-0 in the Pacific Northwest. Now they face a surprisingly struggling Maryland team that has only managed 1 win in 8 tries so far in conference play.

This will almost assuredly be the Terrapins’ worst team since joining the Big Ten. They are sub 100 in both offense and defense. Essentially, this is a team that c...

January 21, 2026: Today’s our first bracket reveal in the new year. We have had a little shuffling of the field since we last had a show in early December. Our four 1 seeds in order of ranking is Arizona, Duke, Michigan, UConn. Once again the bracket features a lot of high major teams. The only non-power conferences getting any love is the West Coast with St. Mary’s and Gonzaga and the Mountain West. Dom projects Utah State, San Di...

January 20, 2026: Well, MSU did what it needed to do and completed a perfect West Coast trip by toppling the Ducks 68-52. It was far from a pretty game from the Spartans but, as they say, they got the job done. Michigan State never really got their offense working until about half way through the second half.

MSU just led by 2 at the half 28-26 and were trailing by 5 in the second half until they went on a big run and seemed to wea...

January 18, 2026: MSU completes its west coast trip on Tuesday evening in Eugene. And what a season Oregon has had - and we mean that in the worst possible light - after we and many had picked them to finish somewhere in the middle to upper middle of the pack in the Big Ten, this team may struggle to not play in the first day of the Big Ten Tournament on Tuesday. 8-10 overall, 1-6 in the Big Ten and 3 of their last 4 losses have be...

January 17, 2026: Well, a much better start to this West Coast trip than last year where the Spartans dropped both. This time, MSU gets the win in Seattle in a largely Spartan fan contingent arena 80-63. Michigan State led this game wire to wire leading 39-31 at half time and then kept a 5-8 point margin until a 10-0 run to cruise in with an easy double digit win.

Another great game by Jeremy Fears, Jr. who finished with 19 points ...

January 17, 2026: Michigan State begins its West Coast trip this Saturday with a matchup against the Huskies of Washington. Last year was not a good trip for the green and white as they were swept by the California teams in LA. Izzo and company is hoping for a better swing to the Pacific time zone this time.

Fortunately for the Spartans, both Washington and Oregon are struggling this year. In the first game, Washington presents mor...

January 13, 2026: Michigan State had its first of two matchups with the Hoosiers from Indiana tonight and won 81-60. They did this mainly on a 28-2 run to finish the game (although the Hoosiers scored the last 5 meaningless points). The game was close in the first half with Indiana leading the majority until a late push got MSU a 39-32 lead into the locker room.

Jeremy Fears finished with a career high in scoring with 23 and added ...

January 10, 2026: Michigan State will host its final game of this 3 game home stand on Tuesday night as they host the Indiana Hoosiers. We are a quarter of the way thru the conference schedule already and the Spartans sit at 4-1 and tied for second in the Big Ten. Indiana, after getting surprised by the Gophers on the road to start their league play has bounced back well and is 3-2 after a heartbreaking home loss to the undefeated ...

January 8, 2026: Michigan State and its fans came away from the Northwestern game with a sigh of relief after escaping with a 10 point win. The Wildcats pushed MSU in this game leading by 7 at half time and even 7 part way through the second half. However, Tom Izzo earned himself a technical foul and that seemed to get the team rolling as they then went on a 14-2 run and eventually cruised in with a 10 point win late in the game.

O...

January 6, 2026: Michigan State will look to continue their winning ways at home with a matchup against the struggling Wildcats from Northwestern on Thursday night. The 0-3 Wildcats have had a rough season to date most recently with a surprising loss at home to Minnesota. The ‘Cats are having trouble on defense and are not a good 3 point shooting team or rebounding on either end of the floor.

MSU, in contrast, continues to rank as ...

January 5, 2026: After dropping its first Big Ten game of the year a few days ago to Nebraska, Michigan State returned home to take on a struggling USC Trojans team. The Spartans blitzed the Trojans, 80-51 in front of the Izzone Alumni and moved to 3-1 in conference play.

It was a game where MSU struggled getting out of the gate and was down 5-0 to start. But then they went on a big run and never really looked back. The Spartans he...

January 3, 2026: After taking the loss on the road in Lincoln, Michigan State returns home to take on the USC Trojans in something of a revenge game after losing to USC last year in Los Angeles. This USC team, however, is completely different sporting zero players who were on last year’s team. The Trojans are also coming off a 30 point beat down from the Wolverines a few days ago.

The Spartans will hope to clean up a few of their g...

January 2, 2026: Well, we are clearly back to Big Ten play as Michigan State found itself in a defensive slugfest in Lincoln where they lost 58-56 to the 15th ranked Cornhuskers. Despite turning the ball over 19 times, the Spartans actually had a chance to steal this game even up 3 with under two minutes to go. But Nebraska made just enough shots and MSU continued to have trouble hanging onto the ball and fell just short.

Jaxon Koh...

December 30, 2025: Next up for the Spartans is a return to league play with a road matchup against unbeaten Nebraska in Lincoln. The ‘Huskers are off to their best start in program history after claiming a number of high major scalps and beating the Illini in Champaign in Big Ten play. As a projected #3 seed right now, they will be a formidable foe for MSU.

Michigan State, however, is no slouch either as they enter the game with a ...

December 29, 2025: Michigan State finished its last non conference game of the regular season with a tricky matchup against a high powered offensive team in Cornell. Despite giving up 53 points in the first half, the Spartans managed to hold a 2 point lead going into the break.

The second half, MSU put the clamps down on the Big Red holding them to only 13 points for the first 10+ minutes of the second half to secure a healthy 20+ ...

December 26, 2025: Michigan State prepares for its final non conference game of the season against Cornell on Monday night. After that, its conference play and their pursuit to defend their Big Ten title.

In its final tune up, we are looking for a few things from the Spartan squad. Namely, questions about the rotation. Will we continue seeing Divine Ugochukwu at shooting guard and Denham Wojcik at the point as back up or does Divin...

December 22, 2025: It’s the holiday break so we decided to open the mailbag for our supporting listeners to the show and talk about Rod’s Big Ten Tiers (one to four).

Tier 4: Rutgers, Minnesota, Penn State, Northwestern, Maryland.

Tier 3: Oregon, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Washington

Tier 2: USC, Indiana, Iowa, UCLA, Illinois

Tier 1A: Nebraska

Tier 1: Purdue, Michigan, Michigan State

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December 20, 2025: In this year’s annual ugly sweater game between MSU and Oakland, Michigan State comes away from the game with a 79-70 win at Little Caesar’s Arena in Detroit. It wasn’t MSU’s best game of the season as they struggled to get into any sort of offensive flow and were down as much as 7 points in the first half but managed to squeeze out a 3 point lead at the half.

The second half was a little better but the Spartans ...

December 20, 2025: Today’s our first bracket reveal of the year. You can check it out at www.bracketometry.com. Not a whole lot of movement at the top of the field with UM still commanding the overall number 1 spot.

Dom’s last 4 in are NC State, UCF, Arizona State, and Oklahoma. Last 4 out are Wisconsin, Butler, Boise State, and Virginia Tech.

As for conference berths we have the Big Ten, Big 12, and SEC all with 10 bids, ACC with ...