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Iowa’s 112-106 win over Michigan State Saturday wasn’t simply one of the most thrilling games of the 2022-2023 college basketball season. The Big Ten matchup was also one of the craziest games in college basketball history. By overcoming a 95-84 deficit with 55 seconds left in regulation, Iowa became just the fourth team in college […]

The Michigan State basketball team blew an 11-point lead with 55 seconds left in Saturday’s 112-106 overtime loss against Iowa. How did Michigan State lose a game that seemed to be firmly in hand? Spartans head coach Tom Izzo puts the blame on himself. “P–s-poor coaching,” Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo told reporters. “We […]

Michigan State head basketball coach Tom Izzo had tears in his eyes as he looked up into the Breslin Center crowd before the Spartans faced the No. 17 Indiana Hoosiers on Tuesday. It would be Michigan State’s first home game since a tragic mass shooting occurred on campus, wrote Associated Press Michigan Sports Editor Larry […]

Super Tuesday College Basketball continues on ESPN with this matchup between two Big Ten Conference rivals. The No. 17 Indiana Hoosiers (19-8) will travel to East Lansing to face off against the Michigan State Spartans (16-10). Both teams are playing for more than just a win here. Check out our college basketball odds series for […]

Michigan State and Michigan are fierce rivals in sports, but when tragedy strikes, those rivalries on the playing field are moved aside, and animosity turns into compassion. The latter is what’s coming to the light, as Michigan was there to help Michigan State recover after a tragic shooting took place on the MSU campus Monday […]

The Michigan State Spartans basketball team has been focusing on issues much larger than sports after the tragic shooting that took place on their campus last Monday. But on Saturday night, they returned to the court to take on the Michigan Wolverines, and while they ended up losing 84-72, head coach Tom Izzo was proud […]

It had been less than a week since three students at Michigan State were senselessly shot and killed on campus when the university’s women’s basketball team took the floor for the first time since the tragedy. Just suiting up was a victory for the Spartans at a time where the community continues to mourn the […]

The Michigan State Spartans take on the Michigan Wolverines. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Michigan State Michigan prediction and pick. Find out how to watch Michigan State Michigan. The Michigan State Spartans defeated Michigan earlier this season, but now they will try to sweep the Wolverines. This game will be a […]

Michigan State University has canceled its upcoming basketball game against Minnesota. The move comes in response to a mass shooting occurring on Michigan State’s East Lansing campus. At 8:18 PM eastern time, a gunman opened fire in Berkey Hall, located on the north end of the campus. Multiple 911 calls came in, and Michigan State […]

Big Ten basketball continues on ESPN2 with a matchup that has been become a slight rivalry in the last few years. The Maryland Terrapins (16-7) will take the trip to East Lansing to face off against the Michigan State Spartans (14-9). The Terrapins will look to continue their winning streak while the Spartans look to […]

Purdue center Zach Edey once again had his way against the Michigan State Spartans this season. Mere weeks after he scored 32 points in the No. 1 ranked Boilermakers’ narrow one-point win over Michigan State, Edey followed it up with a keen encore performance on Sunday. The versatile center tallied 38 points on 62.5 percent […]

The Iowa Hawkeyes will travel to take on the Michigan State Spartans in a Thursday night Big Ten college basketball matchup at the Breslin Center. With that said, check out our college basketball odds series which has our Iowa-Michigan State prediction and pick. Iowa has been up and down this season, going 12-7, including an even 4-4 […]

The No. 23 Rutgers Scarlet Knights (13-5) visit the Michigan State Spartans (12-6) on Thursday night. Action tips off at 6:30 p.m. ET. Below we continue our College Basketball odds series with a Rutgers-Michigan State prediction, pick, and how to watch. Rutgers has won seven of their last eight games and sits at 5-2 and […]

Overall, the 2022-23 campaign has gone relatively swimmingly for head coach Tom Izzo and the Michigan State Spartans men’s basketball team. At 12-5, the team owns the third-best record in the Big Ten Conference, behind only nationally ranked squads in Rutgers and Purdue, and is fresh off a seven-game win streak. However, things have not […]

The Michigan State Spartans take on the Illinois Fighting Illini. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Michigan State Illinois prediction and pick. Find out how to watch Michigan State Illinois. The Michigan State Spartans defeated Michigan this past weekend and then won at Wisconsin earlier this week. Tom Izzo has turned things […]

The Buffalo Bulls take on the Michigan State Spartans. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Buffalo Michigan State prediction and pick. Michigan State has to get a lot better in 2023, but before the Spartans think about improving in the new calendar year, they have one more game to play in 2022. […]

The Michigan State Spartans take on the Penn State Nittany Lions. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Michigan State Penn State prediction and pick. The college basketball season is still generally in the midst of nonconference games, but one thing we have seen in recent years is the shift toward more conference […]

The Northwestern Wildcats take on the Michigan State Spartans. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Northwestern Michigan State prediction and pick. The Northwestern Wildcats started the season with several wins, but then they got derailed in two straight abysmal performances, one on offense and the other at both ends of the floor. […]

The Michigan State Spartans take on the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Michigan State Notre Dame prediction and pick. The college basketball season has been eventful, and few teams have had a more eventful November than Michigan State. The Spartans have loaded up their nonconference schedule with […]

The titanic matchup between the Kentucky Wildcats and the Michigan State Spartans in the opening game of the Champions Classic Tuesday night was, well, an instant classic. Kentucky basketball had the lead for the most part of the contest, but floundered in the clutch, while the Spartans seemingly made every play when it mattered the […]

The unranked Michigan State Spartans pulled off an incredible victory Tuesday night, beating the #4 Kentucky Wildcats in double overtime in the first game of the Champions Classic. It’s obviously early in the season, but this can be a defining win for Michigan State. After the game, the most famous Michigan State basketball player of […]

The Michigan State Spartans are always going to be a dangerous team to face for as long as Tom Izzo is the program’s head coach. Michigan State basketball reminded everyone of that with a sensational double-overtime 86-77 victory Tuesday night against the No. 4 Kentucky Wildcats at Gainbridge Fieldhouse The Spartans were trailing Kentucky for […]

The Kentucky Wildcats take on the Michigan State Spartans in the Champions Classic. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Kentucky Michigan State prediction and pick. The college basketball season began on Monday, Nov. 7, but this game in many ways feels like the true start of the season, the first game of […]

The University of Kentucky men’s basketball team is off to a promising 2-0 start, all without reigning AP Player of the Year Oscar Tshiebwe, who underwent a minor procedure on his left knee back in October. But if a recent injury update is any indication, Tshiebwe will make his season debut sooner rather than later. […]

The Michigan State Spartans take on the Gonzaga Bulldogs in the Armed Forces Classic. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Michigan State Gonzaga prediction and pick. The college basketball season began on Monday, Nov. 7, but Friday, Nov. 11 feels like the real opening day, with showcase games such as this one […]

Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green is well on his way to becoming a basketball Hall of Famer, but before that, Michigan State basketball is making sure they give him that honor first. On Friday, the Michigan State Spartans gave the Warriors forward the ultimate honor by inducting him into the MSU Athletic Hall of […]

Ever since Tom Izzo was hired by Michigan State basketball back in 1995, the Spartans have done nothing but enjoy success. Eight Final Four appearances and a National Championship later, it’s safe to say that the Spartans made the right choice hiring Izzo. They made a wise choice concerning the Big Ten’s winningest head coach […]

The Michigan State Spartans’ basketball program lost one of their own on Monday. Former star Adreian Payne, who played four years in East Lansing before becoming a first-round pick in the 2014 NBA Draft by the Atlanta Hawks, has tragically passed away at just 31-years-old. Via Chris Solari: Confirmed the former MSU star big man […]

Michigan State and Duke are set to face off in the round of 32! It’s time to continue our march madness odds series with a Michigan State-Duke prediction and pick. No. 7 Michigan State just barely snuck past 10-seeded Davidson on Friday night. The Spartans won 74-73 in a battle between two teams fighting to […]

Tom Izzo and his Michigan State Spartans are still dancing in the 2022 NCAA Tournament after passing a tough test in the first round.  The seventh-seeded Spartans avoided an upset Friday by defeating the 10-seed Davidson Wildcats to the tune of a 74-73 score, which means that Michigan State is on a collision course with […]

In a battle between two blue bloods of the Big Ten Conference, the Michigan State Spartans take on the Wisconsin Badgers on Friday afternoon for a chance to advance to the semifinals of the conference tournament. With that said, it’s a good time to check out our college basketball odds series, which includes our Michigan State-Wisconsin […]

The Michigan State Spartans are having a bit of a down year this year. Entering Tuesday, the Spartans were 9-6 in Big Ten play, and 18-8 overall. They traveled to Iowa to square off with the #25 ranked Hawkeyes and were handed a brutal 86-60 loss. After the game, ESPN college basketball announced and legend, […]

The Michigan-Wisconsin fight resulted in the suspension of Wolverines head coach Juwan Howard, a punishment that was announced on Monday. Earlier that day, Michigan State Spartans head coach Tom Izzo, one of the more well-respected coaches in the NCAA, spoke out on the incident, via USA Today. “When I watched it on a big screen […]

Friday night in the NCAA will showcase this elite Big Ten matchup! It’s time to continue our college basketball odds series with a Michigan State-Wisconsin prediction and pick. Michigan State is the No. 14 team in the country with a 14-3 record. The Spartans have a 5-1 conference record which puts them in third behind […]

ESPN analyst David Pollack shared his thoughts about who should win the Heisman Trophy. Pollack believes that it’s Michigan State running back Kenneth Walkers’ award to lose. With the college football season already being in week 12, the Heisman Trophy winner will be announced somewhat soon. David Pollack had this to say, “I think Michigan […]

Draymond Green exploded for a near triple-double against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Saturday, and the Golden State Warriors have the Michigan State Spartans to thank for that. Apparently, watching his alma mater’s football team destroy the Michigan Wolverines to stay undefeated and improve to 8-0 in the current college football season motivated Green even […]

Former Michigan State star Keith Appling was arrested Monday by Michigan State Police after being named a suspect in the fatal shooting of a 66-year-old man over the weekend in Detroit, according to Miriam Marini of the Detroit Free Press. The 29-year-old Appling reportedly got into a verbal altercation with the victim on Saturday night. […]

Former Bruin Russell Westbrook showed some school pride the other night when UCLA took down Michigan State in one of the First four games in the NCAA tournament. Cassius Winston, a former Michigan State Spartan, and a Washington Wizards rookie was forced to wear a Bruins outfit after the defeat. Russ got Cassius Winston wearing […]

With all of social media abuzz over the confrontation between Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo and forward Gabe Brown in the tunnel heading into the team’s locker room on Thursday night against UCLA, Spartan alumnus Draymond Green took to Twitter to shrug off the incident. As a player known for operating with a high […]