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

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.

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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 ...

December 18, 2025: Michigan State will once again have their annual matchup against Greg Kampe and his Oakland Grizzlies. This year the game is in Detroit at Little Caesar’s Arena and is sure to feature two grumpy coaches wearing ugly sweaters. Although Oakland hasn’t won in 22 tries, they will probably give MSU a competitive and challenging game.

Despite MSU’s 10-1 record, there are a lot of questions coming into the game starting...

December 16, 2025: Michigan State returned home and took on the Toledo Rockets and promptly stomped the Rockets 92-69. Although the win looked comfortable this was definitely a game of two halves.

In the first half, MSU played a nice offensive game both on the boards and behind the arc finishing with 58 points. They also held Toledo to just 28 points with some stifling defense. The second half, however, was a different story as Tol...

December 14, 2025: Michigan State returns back to the Breslin after a less than impressive performance to close out the first week of conference play at Happy Valley. Fortunately for the Spartans, they are 9-1/2-0 which isn’t such a bad place to be after ten games.

But as we said after the game, there’s still a lot of work to do with the team and luckily plenty of time to figure some stuff out which might be over the final 3 non-co...

December 13, 2025: Michigan State played its first true home game today and snuck out of Happy Valley with a 76-72 win over Penn State. The game was a weird one in which MSU led by double digits in the first half but then gave it all back (and then some) managing to cut the Penn State lead to 3 by halftime, 36-33.

The second half was another blistering start for the Spartans where they got out to a 10 point lead again but then gave...

December 11, 2025: It’s our last week with just the top 4 seed lines and there hasn't been a whole lot of movement at the top. Michigan is still the overall number one seed while Iowa State and Purdue switched their two and one seeds respectively after the Cyclones went into Mackey Arena and blitzed the Boilers.

Their victory was enough to push the Big 12 above the Big 10 in the power standings. We’re getting close to the first ful...

December 10, 2025: Michigan State dropped it’s first game of the season to top ranked Duke last Saturday and is looking to get back to its winning ways as it returns to Big Ten play Saturday in Happy Valley. There is probably no better matchup to wash away your woes then the Nittany Lions who - despite their 8-2 record - are struggling this season.

Penn State is coming off a 41 point loss to the Hoosiers in Bloomington and now they...

December 6, 2025: Michigan State dropped it’s first game of the season to top ranked Duke 66-60 in front of an electric crowd at the Breslin Center. As expected, it was a defensive showcase and the top 10 defenses limited the other in their shooting. In the end, Duke made just a few more plays and shots and forced the action enough in the second half to get to the free throw line which was the difference in the final score.

Despite...

December 5, 2025: A lot of movement in the seed list since we last had a show. The new number one overall seed is Michigan who joins Duke, Arizona, and Purdue on the one line. Two seeds are Michigan State, Iowa State, Vanderbilt, and UConn. BYU, Alabama, Houston, and Gonzaga are the 3s with Kansas, UNC, Louisville, and Tennessee rounding things out at the 4.

The conference rankings are just about set. Dom has the Big Ten leading th...