Khris Bogle and Maverick Hansen spoke about the Spartans’ 47-10 loss to Indiana on Saturday, and their approach moving forward.

“We just need to keep stacking days and prepare for the next one.”

A guy from Tennessee sent me some new research on Tommy Love, Michigan State's star-crossed 1966 Parade High School All-American recruit from North Carolina.

Here are more reasons to understand Tommy Love's moment unfairly lost to history - Tom Shanahan Report

It sheds new light on the progress in the South, so I put together a story. I hope it sheds more light on Duffy Daugherty's significant role, Love's moment in time that are all lost
in the shadows of Bear Bryant hagiography.

Love playing at an integrated school helped him game mainstream media attention otherwise denied Black kids playing in the anonymity of Black schools.

Follow me on Twitter @shanny4055

The best books on college football integration are my two books, RAYE OF LIGHT and THE RIGHT THING TO DO.

From Kirkus, The Right Thing To Do: "Fascinating read" ... "unexpected subplots" ... "A work of sports history that fill gaps" ... "prose is breezy" - Tom Shanahan Report

Michigan State's game at Illinois on Nov. 16 will begin at 2:30 p.m. (another day game!) and the game will be televised on FS1.

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The fan that nailed it in yesterday's field goal challenge was great.

Doesn't happen often. In fact, I'm not sure it ever has - anyone know?

Important to note that PFF's grading scale is approximately the following;

PFF Grading Scale
90+ - Elite
80 to 89 - Great
70 to 79 - Good
60 to 69 - Average to Above Average
50 - 59 - Below Average
49 and below - Poor

OVERALL TEAM GRADES


OFFENSE (64 SNAPS)


WIDE RECEIVER STATS


OFFENSIVE LINE


DEFENSE (63 SNAPS)

Monday, Nov. 4​

Men's basketball: vs. Monmouth
7 p.m. B1G+
Discussion Thread
W 81-57

Tuesday, Nov. 5​

Women's basketball: vs. Oakland
6:30 p.m. B1G+
Discussion Thread
W 81-33

Thursday, Nov. 7​

Women's tennis: Sectional Championships

Men's tennis: Big Ten Indoor Championships (Madison Wis.), ITA Conference Masters (San Diego), ITA Sectionals (Waco, Texas)

Men's soccer: vs. Washington (Bridgeview, Ill.)
6 p.m.
Discussion Thread
L 0-0 (3-5 PSO)

Men's basketball: vs. Niagara
8 p.m. BTN
Discussion Thread
W 96-60

Volleyball: at Maryland
8 p.m.
Discussion Thread
L 1-3

Friday, Nov. 8​

Women's tennis: Sectional Championships

Men's tennis: Big Ten Indoor Championships (Madison Wis.), ITA Conference Masters (San Diego), ITA Sectionals (Waco, Texas)

Women's basketball: vs. Yale
7 p.m. B1G+
Discussion Thread
W 100-44

Ice hockey: vs. Ohio State
7 p.m. B1G+
Discussion Thread
W 4-2

Volleyball: at Rutgers
7 p.m.
Discussion Thread
W 3-1

Saturday, Nov. 9​

Women's tennis: Sectional Championships

Men's tennis: Big Ten Indoor Championships (Madison Wis.), ITA Conference Masters (San Diego), ITA Sectionals (Waco, Texas)

Rowing: at Ohio State with Indiana

Wrestling: Michigan State Open
9:30 a.m.
Discussion Thread

Ice hockey: vs. Ohio State
6 p.m. B1G+
Discussion Thread
W 4-1

Sunday, Nov. 10​

Men's tennis: Big Ten Indoor Championships (Madison Wis.), ITA Conference Masters (San Diego), ITA Sectionals (Waco, Texas)



Bold = home games

Michigan State men's basketball kicks off the season tonight versus Monmouth. Get ready with the game preview:

The new college basketball season is here!

Some stuff on Izzo's 30th season, Jaden Akins' early struggles, Saddi Washington's impact and what Monmouth brings to the table as MSU's first opponent.

More:

EAST LANSING, Mich. - Michigan State Women's Basketball junior forward Grace VanSlooten was named to the Cheryl Miller Award preseason watch list, as announced by the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) on Wednesday.

She is one of five Big Ten players on the list along with Indiana's Yarden Garzon, Maryland's Saylor Poffenbarger, Ohio State's Cotie McMahon and UCLA's Angela Dugalić. The award honors the nation's top small forwards.

VanSlooten is in her first season at Michigan State after transferring from Oregon. She averaged 14.1 points and 6.4 rebounds per game in two season with the Ducks. In the Spartans 101-40 exhibition win over Wayne State on Oct. 28, VanSlooten tied a team high with 16 points in just 18 minutes.

The Cheryl Miller Award, in its eighth year, honors the top small forwards in women's Division I women's college basketball. It is named after the three-time Naismith Player of the Year and Class of 1995 Hall of Famer.

Fan voting begins on Friday, Nov. 1 at hoophallawards.com.

The Spartans open the regular season against Oakland on Tuesday, Nov. 5 at 6:30 p.m. at the Breslin Center.

2025 Cheryl Miller Award Candidates
Sarah Ashlee Barker, Alabama
Andrea Daley, Boston College
Lior Garzon, Colorado
Yarden Garzon, Indiana
Temira Poindexter, Kansas State
Mikaylah Williams, LSU
Saylor Poffenbarger , Maryland
Grace VanSlooten, Michigan State
Alyssa Ustby, North Carolina
Madison Hayes, NC State
Cotie McMahon, Ohio State
Sahara Williams, Oklahoma
Madison Scott, Ole Miss
Maryam Dauda, South Carolina
Madison Booker, Texas
Aicha Coulibaly, Texas A&M
Angela Dugalić, UCLA
Sarah Strong, UConn
Gianna Kneepkens, Utah
Sacha Washington, Vanderbilt

Release courtesy of MSU Athletics.

EAST LANSING, Mich. - Michigan State men's soccer has earned the No. 5 seed in the upcoming Big Ten Tournament. MSU will take on No. 4-seeded Washington on Thursday, Nov. 7 in the quarterfinals.

Kickoff is set for 6 p.m. ET at SeatGeek Stadium in Bridgeview, Illinois. The game will be streamed on B1G+.The semifinal round will also take place at SeakGeek Stadium on Nov. 10.

Ohio State earned the No. 1 overall seed despite sharing the regular season title with Indiana.

No. 2 Indiana will face No. 7 seed Michigan at 1 p.m. ET in the first of three quarterfinal matchups on Thursday. The second quarterfinal, scheduled for 3:30 p.m. ET, features No. 3 Maryland against No. 6 UCLA. The Spartans and the Huskies are the final game of the day. The Buckeyes will take on the winner of the game against MSU and UW on Nov. 10 at 5:30 p.m. ET.

The championship game will then be played on Sunday, Nov. 17, at the highest remaining seed at 3 p.m. ET.

Michigan State ended the regular season with a 5-7-4 record and were 4-4-2 record in Big Ten play. The Spartans captured the meeting earlier this year with a 1-0 win on Sept. 13. Junior midfielder Jonathan Stout provided the game's only goal.

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MSU nipped by Rutgers, 1-0, in final regular-season match.​

EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Michigan State men's soccer was nipped by Rutgers, 1-0, on Spartan Senior Celebration Day, presented by HAP, on a Sunday afternoon at DeMartin Stadium.

Rutgers scored in the 83rd minute to take the lead, but Michigan State had several late chances including a penalty kick with 43 seconds left that went wide to deny the draw and spoil the Spartans' Senior Day festivities.

After the match, Michigan State men's soccer celebrated Zack Babiak, Efosa Emovon, Levin Gerhardt, Sean Kerrigan and Shion Soga in their final regular-season matches at DeMartin Stadium in the Green & White.

"Sometimes it's like 'hey do you want to do it after a loss or a win', for me it puts it into perspective that it's not about one game," MSU head coach Damon Rensing said. "It's not about one loss, it's about their commitment to MSU soccer for four, three, two, one year, or whatever time they have had here. All these guys have made a great commitment to Michigan State Soccer, and I'm very grateful and very proud. It's a good sign, the show of having the parents and what they represent, and what our kids are about. We've got great young men here on our soccer program, and I'm very proud of not just how they are as players, but as students and as people of the community, so that puts some things into perspective for sure."

With the loss, MSU finishes regular-season play 5-7-4, including 4-4-2 in Big Ten Conference action. Rutgers moves to 6-9-2 overall and 3-6-1 in B1G play.

The Spartans await the rest of the league results for their B1G Tournament seeding.

"Well, I think you saw it today, it comes down to one or two plays," Rensing said. "I thought we did a lot of good things, and we just lacked conviction in the final third. We got in those areas enough, but just didn't do enough to really warrant to goal, and that's disappointing. Obviously going down a goal, I thought the guys responded well in the last eight minutes, but you don't wait until the last eight minutes to respond. I wish I was seeing that from the kickoff from the guys."

The first half ended in a stalwart stalemate at 0-0, with both teams generating chances, but were turned away by the respective defenses. RU had a slim, 4-3, edge on shots in the first half, with redshirt-junior goalkeeper Zac Kelly making one save in the opening 45 minutes.

After halftime, both teams increased the offensive pressure, while both turned up the defensive intensity. MSU had its best scoring chance up to that point in the 80th minute when junior defender Jeremy Sharp had a shot roll just inches away from the post. Two minutes later, Rutgers broke the stalemate, taking advantage of a pass that spun in the wind, falling down to Francesco Di Ponzio, who tapped it past Kelly and into the net.

The Spartans didn't go quietly into the afternoon, generating several more scoring chances, but were turned away by the Scarlet Knight defense and RU keeper Ciarn Dalton. Junior forward Jonathan Stout had a late chance with a header, but it went just over the bar.

The Spartans' next action will be the 2024 Big Ten Tournament, with the quarterfinals starting on Thursday, Nov. 7 at SeatGeek Stadium in Bridgeview, Illinois, with full Tournament game information and pairings to be announced later.

Recap courtesy of MSU Athletics.

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SAINT PAUL, Minn. - 16th-ranked and fourth-seeded Michigan State women's soccer opens postseason play on Saturday, Nov. 2 against fifth-seeded Rutgers in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals. Kickoff is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. ET at the University of Minnesota's Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium.

All tournament quarterfinal matches will stream on B1G+.

FIRST TOUCH
MSU (12-1-5, 7-1-3 B1G) wrapped up the regular season with a 3-1 home win over Purdue last week, finishing in fourth place in the final league standings. It marked MSU's fourth-straight top-four Big Ten finish since head coach Jeff Hosler's arrival in 2021. Prior to Hosler's arrival, MSU had not finished in the top five since 2011.

Graduate forward Mackenzie Anthony notched a first-half goal against Purdue, while freshman midfielder Kaleigh McPherson and graduate forward Meg Hughes tallied second-half scores. Hughes' goal was her team-leading seventh of the season, which also brought her 2024 point total to a team-leading 19. McPherson's goal was the first of her career. She was named Big Ten Freshman of the Week on Tuesday this week.

SCOUTING RUTGERS
Rutgers is 10-3-4 this season and finished with a 6-2-3 record in the Big Ten to finish in a tie for fifth in the final league standings. The Scarlet Knights ended regular-season play with a 1-1 home draw with Maryland on Oct. 27. Senior defender Emily Mason scored the lone Rutgers goal in that contest.

Senior forward Riley Tiernan leads the Scarlet Knights in scoring with 17 points this season from a team-leading four goals and nine assists. Shaela Bradley, Allie Post and Ashley Baran also have scored four goals this season. In goal, redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Olivia Bodmer holds a 0.826 save percentage and 0.71 goals-against average.

Saturday's meeting between the two schools will be the 13th all-time and second this season. Rutgers holds a 9-2-1 edge in the series, which dates back to 2004. MSU and Rutgers have never met in the Big Ten Tournament.

The Spartans and Scarlet Knights played to a 1-1 draw in East Lansing on Sept. 29 this season. After a defensive battle through the first 80 minutes, Anthony finally broke the ice with 10 minutes to go to give MSU a 1-0 lead. In the 86th minute, a handball by the Spartans in the box awarded Rutgers a penalty kick that was slotted home by freshman Gabriela Gil to seal the 1-1 result.

MSU IN THE B1G TOURNAMENT
MSU is playing in their fourth B1G tournament in as many years this weekend. Head coach Jeff Hosler has guided the Spartans to the conference tournament in every year of his tenure so far. Saturday will be MSU's 16th all-time B1G tournament appearance since the tournament's inception in 1994. Before Hosler's arrival in 2021, MSU had not qualified to the tournament since 2011.

The Spartans are 4-15-2 all-time in the tournament. MSU has advanced to the semifinals five times - twice on penalty kicks (2008, 2011) and three times with quarterfinal round wins (1994, 2005, 2022). MSU has only made the championship game once, which came in 2022, where MSU was defeated by Penn State, 3-2.

Last season, MSU dropped its quarterfinal match to eventual champion Iowa, 2-1, in East Lansing.

UP NEXT
The Big Ten semifinals and championship are scheduled for Nov. 7 and Nov. 10, respectively, at CITYPARK in St. Louis. The winner of Saturday's quarterfinal will play the winner of B1G champion and top-seeded USC and either No. 8 Wisconsin or No. 9 Ohio State in the semifinals.

Preview courtesy of MSU Athletics.

EAST LANSING, Mich. - Michigan State wrestling opens its 2024-25 campaign this weekend traveling to the nation's capital for a 1:00 p.m. dual at American University on Saturday, November 2. Saturday's dual will be streamed on ESPN+ ($).
"Looking forward to watching this team get into their first dual of the year and seeing how they have grown in competition since last season," said Michigan State head coach Roger Chandler. "There are a lot of new young faces this season and I look forward to watching them make their mark on Spartan Wrestling."

Michigan State opens its season with a dual for the first time since 2015-16, with Saturday marking the third time in the last three seasons that the Spartans have met American for a non-conference dual. MSU is 2-0 all-time against American, winning 33-0 on Nov. 18, 2022 and 28-12 on Jan. 5, 2024.



The First Whistle
Michigan State returns one NCAA qualifier and five other wrestlers that started in 10 or more duals for the Spartans last season. Redshirt senior Tristan Lujan is MSU's returning NCAA qualifier and is joined by redshirt junior Andy Hampton, redshirt sophomore Braden Stauffenberg, redshirt senior DJ Shannon, redshirt sophomore Kael Wisler and redshirt sophomore Josh Terrill as a returning starter.

Returning to the lineup is redshirt sophomore Cesar Garza at 174 pounds, who started in 10 duals as a true freshman in 2022-23 before redshirting during the 2023-24 campaign. Redshirt sophomores Wisler and Terrill aim to earn their first NCAA Tournament qualifications this season after coming up just short a year ago. Terrill was 25-15 in his first season as a starter and Wisler finished 26-14 as a redshirt freshman.

Michigan State will be one of the younger teams in the B1G this season, with nine wrestlers in the opening weekend probables listed as a redshirt sophomore or younger.

MSU went 8-0 against non-conference opponents in 2023 and was won 22 straight non-con duals dating back to 2/21/20 at Central Michigan (L, 21-15).

First Look: American
American University has strong leadership headed by fourth-year head coach Jason Borrelli, the 2021 Dan Gable National Coach of the Year. AU won eight duals for the second straight season a year ago, matching the most dual wins in the past 13 years for the program.

Maximilian Leete placed fifth at the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) Championships at 133 pounds to earn an automatic big to the NCAA Tournament. Jack Maida, Jack Nies and Will Jarrell are also former EIWA placewinners. Maida took fifth at 133 in 2023 and Nies placed sixth at 157. Jarrell was the ninth-place finisher at 285 in 2024.

Maida qualified for the NCAA Tournament at 133 in 2023 to mark Borelli's first qualifier at American. Maida, who competed at 125 in 2024, will bump back up this season but to 141 pounds. At 125, Maida pulled an upset over Virginia Techís 2023 All-American Eddie Ventresca.


Last Meeting - Jan. 5, 2024 in East Lansing
Michigan State 28, American 12
133 | Maximillian Leete (AU) fall over Andy Hampton (MSU) 1:50 | AU 6-0
141 | Jordan Hamdan (MSU) dec. Raymond Lopez (AU) 8-4 | AU 6-3
149 | Braden Stauffenberg (MSU) dec. Ethan Szerencsits (AU) 5-2 | Tied 6-6
157 | Chase Saldate (MSU) fall over Devon Capatao (AU) 6:08 | MSU 12-6
165 | Caleb Fish (MSU) major dec. Breon Phifer (AU) 8-0 | MSU 16-6
174 | Lucas White (AU) dec. Marty Larkin (MSU) 3-2 | MSU 16-9
184 | Layne Malczewski (MSU) major dec. Connor Bourne (AU) | MSU 20-9
197 | Kael Wisler (MSU) tech fall over Liam Volk-Klos (AU) 17-2 | MSU 25-9
285 | Josh Terrill (MSU) sudden victory – 1 Will Jarrell (AU) 6-3 | MSU 28-9
125 | Jack Maida (AU) dec. Tristan Lujan (MSU) 2-1 | 28-12

Up Next
MSU returns to East Lansing next weekend for the annual Michigan State Open hosted inside historic Jenison Field House. The MSU Open has been a staple at Michigan State for decades, with action getting underway at 9:30 a.m.

Preview courtesy of MSU Athletics.

On a personal side note, my spouse works for AU and attends law school there part-time as well.

EAST LANSING, Mich. – Michigan State volleyball returns home this weekend hosting No. 15-ranked Minnesota on Friday night and Ohio State on Sunday afternoon. First serve between the Spartans and the Golden Gophers is set for 6:00 p.m. inside the Breslin Center, with Sunday's match against the Buckeyes starting at 12:00 p.m.

Both matches will stream live on B1G+. Fans can listen in via the Spartan Media Network for both matches where John Kreger will call the action in his 20th season of coverage.

ABOUT #15 MINNESOTA​

Led by second-year head coach Keegan Cook, No. 15-ranked Minnesota arrives in East Lansing with a record of 14-6 (7-3 B1G). The Golden Gophers are ranked No. 30 in the latest NCAA RPI with quad one victories over Texas and Wisconsin. All six of Minnesota's losses have come to Top 25 RPI teams, including USC.

Minnesota ranks No. 12 nationally in blocks/set (2.79), No. 37 in opponent hitting percentage (.172), No. 5 in hitting percentage (.245), No. 96 in digs/set (15.25), No. 167 in kills/set (12.56), No. 194 in aces/set (1.47) and No. 210 in assists/set (11.30).

Middle blocker Phoebe Awoleye ranks No. 7 nationally and No. 2 in the B1G in blocks/set at 1.56 and her 112 total blocks is No. 13 nationally and No. 3 in the B1G. Julia Hanson leads the team in kills/set at 3.56 and is the reigning B1G Player of the Week. Setter Melani Shaffmaster is posting 8.78 assists/set and libero Zeynep Palabiyik averages 3.79 digs/set.

SERIES HISTORY​

#15 Minnesota

- Michigan State is 19-62 all-time against Minnesota and 11-28 when facing the Golden Gophers in East Lansing.
- Minnesota has won nine straight over the Green & White dating back to 2018, with MSU's last victory coming in 2017 (3-0).
- In 2017, the Spartans took down then No. 1-ranked Minnesota in Minneapolis in the same weekend that they first defeated then No. 5-ranked Wisconsin in Madison.

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ABOUT OHIO STATE​

Led by fifth-year head coach Jen Flynn-Oldenburg, Ohio State enters the weekend with a record of 8-12 (1-9 B1G). The Buckeyes are ranked No. 86 in the latest NCAA RPI with two quad two victories over Northern Iowa and Miami (Fla.).

Ohio State ranks No. 58 nationally in blocks/set (2.44), No. 157 in assists/set (11.67), No. 162 in aces/set (1.53), No. 178 in opponent hitting percentage (.206), No. 187 in kills/set (12.41), No. 197 in hitting percentage (.200) and No. 228 in digs/set (13.78).

Emily Londot ranks No. 9 nationally and No. 1 in the B1G in attacks/set (12.01), No. 10/1 in points (417.5), No. 10/1 in kills/set (4.59), No. 11/1 in points/set (5.35), No. 13 in total kills (358).

Setter Mia Tuman leads Ohio State with 652 assists at 9.73 assists/set, libero Olivia Hasbrook averages 3.85 digs/set and middle blocker Eloise Brandewie averages 1.13 blocks/set.

SERIES HISTORY​

Ohio State

- Michigan State is 33-53 all-time against Ohio State and 20-21 when facing the Buckeyes in East Lansing.
- Ohio State has won six straight over the Green & White dating back to 2021, with MSU's last victory coming in 2019.
- The Spartans won 7 of 10 meetings against OSU from 2013 through 2019, winning by a combined 23-9.

IN THE B1G RANKINGS
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Nalani Iosia is #2 in digs/set in the B1G at 4.26 and ranks #2 in total digs with 328.

Iosia is #2 in B1G only matches with 4.08 digs/ set on 151 total digs.

Zuzanna Kulig ranks #3 in the B1G in blocks thus far at 1.45 blocks/set, only behind Purdue's Raven Colvin (1.59) and Minnesota Phoebe Awoleye (1.56).

Kulig's total blocks (106) rank third in the conference behind Colvin's 121 and Awoleye's 112, and her solo blocks (18) are tied for first with Colvin (18).

In B1G only matches Kulig ranks #4 in blocks/ set with 1.41.

Kulig is #9 in the B1G in overall season hitting at .361 (100-18-227).

Last week, Kulig ranked #7 in the B1G in hitting percentage hitting .400 for the week (11-1-25).

Last week, Akasha Anderson was #4 in the B1G in kills/set (4.75) and #5 in points/set (5.50).

Serve specialist Ky Clayton ranked #6 last week in aces/set (.50) following a four ace weekend.

LAST ONE BEST ONE​

Fifth-year libero Nalani Iosia saved her best for last, averaging a career-high 4.26 digs per set. Her previous career-high was 4.16 set in 2023.
If the season ended today, Iosia's 4.26 digs/set would rank No. 8 in the program history book for a single season.
Iosia moved into No. 7 in career digs at MSU and now has 1,278 in a Spartan jersey. Becky Belanger is No. 6 all-time with 1,293 career digs.
Iosia ranks No. 26 in active career dig leaders among all DI players with 1,815.
Iosia is second in the B1G in digs per set (4.26) and total digs (328).
Iosia entered the season ranked second in the B1G in career digs among active players with 1,504 (now 1,832).
Iosia ranked fifth in the B1G last season in digs/set at 4.16.
Iosia was an AVCA All-North Region honorable mention following the conclusion of the 2023 season, the first Spartan to earn a regional honor since 2017 and the first libero since 2014.
Iosia's 483 digs last season ranked No. 8 all-time for a single season at MSU.
Iosia matched her career-high of 27 digs against Washington on Oct. 20, 2024.

KULIG AS A CUCUMBER​

Sophomore middle blocker Zuzanna Kulig inserted herself into the conversation as one of the best in the country.
Kulig ranks No. 12 nationally and No. 3 in the B1G in blocks per set (1.45).
Kulig's 106 total blocks rank No. 23 nationally and No. 3 in the B1G.
Kulig posted a new career-high 12 blocks against Illinois on Oct. 12, 2024.
12 blocks in a match is the fourth-most single match blocks in program history and was last accomplished by Alexis Mathews on Nov. 24, 2010 against Michigan.
Kulig's 1.45 blocks/set would rank No. 6 in program history for a single season. No Spartan has posted 1.50 blocks/set since 2001 (Angela Morley (1.55).
Kulig's current career 1.24 blocks/set would rank No. 5 in program history.

KASH MONEY​

Over her last four matches junior outside hitter Akasha Anderson leads MSU with 4.33 kills/set and 4.90 points/set on .278 hitting.

Last weekend in MSU's upset over #16 USC, Anderson tied her career-high in kills with 26 while adding a season-best 13 digs and five blocks.

It was a career-best, 30.5 total points tallied for Anderson against the Women of Troy.

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Join Jonah and Abby for this bonus episode of The WE GOT IT! Podcast as they preview the upcoming hoops season and what to expect from this year’s team. Then, THE voice of Michigan State basketball, Will Tieman, joins the show!

Tieman talks about his 28 years on the broadcast, ranging from his favorite calls, to the origins (and near demise) of “He got it!” - to what he sees in this year’s team.

You don’t want to miss this!

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It's going to be easy for people to compare Jonathan Smith and Curt Cignetti because they are both first-year coaches. Doing so is unfair to Smith and there is no reason to believe he can't bring MSU back.

Read here:

It’s gameday in East Lansing!

Michigan State (4-4, 2-3 Big Ten) will host the unbeaten Indiana Hoosiers (8-0, 5-0 Big Ten).

Will the Spartans pull off the upset?

Stay tuned here for live updates from Spartan Stadium & game discussion.

Saturday's matchup against No. 13 Indiana was the type of result that Spartan fans have grown accustomed to against highly-ranked teams in the past few years.

Despite an early 10-0, Indiana scored the next 47 points — resulting in an embarrassing 47-10 loss at home for MSU.

Michigan State head coach Jonathan Smith shared his thoughts following the game, and ripped the band-aid off to start his postgame press conference.

“Well, obviously that was tough,” he said. “You’re gonna get exposed against a really good team when you don't execute well. And credit to those guys (on Indiana), sometimes we quickly just think about ourselves — those guys executed at a really high level.”

More from Smith's postgame press conference:

Campbell goes for fourth down at the 5 yard line. GB gets an offside call. Goff throws TD to St Brown in a driving rain.

No, not with the team and quality of play on the field (well, OK, a little bit, but satisfaction is a combination of expectations and outcomes. My expectations for this season were low, so the outcomes are leaving me only slightly in-satisfied). Nope, my unhappiness is due to two aspects of the game day experience.
1. Replays in the stadium: how is it friends can txt me what they saw on replay at home yet those of us in the stadium are left with watching paint peal off a Spartan helmet. Was that a late hit that knocked Chiles out of the game? How about the holding non-calls on IU. SOMEONE has got to take responsibility for replays!

2. Student entry….We never enter the stadium from the south, but today, a tailgate invitation to the vicinity of the International Center had us going in that way. At 3:15 PM the line for student entry was all the way south to Shaw lane, east to Red Cedar, then north far past the STEM education building. I asked a couple of students how long they had been in line, and they said over an hour! My observation is that the line was not moving. This has been a problem for at least a couple of years….someone in the athletic department must figure this out…no wonder students seem so fickle.

Problems that are on going, yet easily fixable are ridiculous……Our university can do better!

The Spartans were clicking on all cylinders in the first quarter enroute to building a 10-0 lead. But the momentum shifted starting in the second quarter and the Indiana Hoosiers ran away with a 47-10 win.

MSU falls to 4-5 (2-4 in the Big Ten). Here is my recap here:


Since I was doing the recap, I watched that entire game without beer. I just want my sacrifice to be noted.

Big game today. I'm neither a Lions nor a Packers fan (I didn't grow up in Michigan), but I have to say that I'm kinda jumping on the Lions bandwagon. I think that there's some legitimacy in me rooting for the Lions because I own property in Michigan 😅 But I'm from NJ and NY and I'm a Bills fan (I actually like all the NY teams, I'm not a Mets fan that hates the Yanks, nor am I Giants fan that hates the Jets).

Who ya' got?

Best tackle of the day--- LOL


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