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

August 31, 2026: It has been a rough start to the new conference for the Washington Huskies. Danny Sprinkle is entering his third year leading the Seattle teams and has only managed 10 league wins in 40 tries. Not a great start with a new team or new league. Washington is a football school but one wonders how long a leash Sprinkle will get if the results don’t come.

As for the team, the Huskies - like most teams nowadays- lost quite a bit to the portal and one player as a first round NBA draft pick. The loss of Steinbach to the NBA was expected but the loses of Zoom Diallo and Kepnang to Kentucky might make things a little harder for the Huskies. Perhaps the pieces assembled from elsewhere work this year but, as with nearly every team these days, we won’t know until we see them on the court.

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August 27, 2026: Northwestern head coach, Chris Collins, has got to be questioning his luck with the universe. Indubitably the best mens head basketball coach in Northwestern’s history, Collins had his team humming and occasionally in contention at the top of the Big Ten. Now, with the unlimited transfers and NIL (or pay to play) he is now working against tremendous forces.

Without the institutional or donor support that most Big Ten programs have, the ‘Cats are at a serious disadvantage. And unfortunately for Northwestern, the attrition was bad again this off season as they lost a couple really good prospects and are once again forced to bring in unproven transfers at the D1 level. It’s a little hard imagining this team contending for an NCAA tournament berth any time soon.

Are you looking for collegiate apparel including Spartan gear? There’s only one place we recommend you go to get your MSU T-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts — Nudge Printing (https://www.nudgeprinting.com) Nudge is owned and operated by Gabe and Brittany, two MSU alums. The business is operated out of Michigan and screen prints super high quality products. They also have a large assortment of apparel for other schools as well as stickers for your wall, car, or computer. To enter the free drawing go to (https://nudgeprinting.com/win).

If you have a home in Michigan you know the importance of clearing water efficiently away from your home off the roof. Unfortunately, the outdoor beauty of Michigan means you have to deal with leaves and debris that pile up in your gutters. Sometimes, those gutters also can’t keep up with the rain or leave puddles by your foundation.

If you live in the Grand Rapids area (Muskegon to Saugatuck to Rockford to Lowell) contact Kurt Stauffer at the Brothers that Just Do Gutters. (https://www.brothersgutters.com/grand-rapids-mi/).

If you’re anywhere in the metro Detroit area the Brothers have you covered too! (https://www.brothersgutters.com/metro-detroit-mi/). They are real professionals who will clean, repair, or replace your gutters and protect your home quickly and efficiently with friendly service.

Mention Final Four to get 10% off your gutter work.

Have you wondered why the world no longer looks clear out of your windows? Maybe you need a professional to clean them. There’s no better option for your window cleaning than your neighborhood window cleaners at the Squeegee Squad. They clean residential, commercial, and high rise windows. Also, if you need power washing on your house, the Squeegee Squad will treat it with kid gloves with their gentle wash that uses low pressure and surfactants. You won’t find a better team to care for the exterior or your house or business than the Squeegee Squad of Grand Rapids (https://squeegeesquad.com/locations/grand-rapids-mi/).

Book your free estimate here (https://squeegeesquad.com/grand-rapids-mi/grand-rapids-mi-free-estimate/).

Be sure to check out Fanduel Sportsbook for all your sports betting needs. They’ve got some great mobile tools and hundreds to ways to add some extra juice to your sport watching. You can find them at https://www.sportsbook.fanduel.com

#MSUHoops #MichiganStateBasketball #MichiganState #bigtenbasketball #northwesternBasketball

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August 24, 2026: The Rutgers Scarlet Knights might be the only example in college athletics of a team that has done a complete 360 in under 10 years. This was a program that could barely collect 3 conference wins and a perennial conference loser (in every conference they’d been a part of) and joined the Big Ten to suddenly become a competitive team with winning seasons and NCAA tournament bids and wins only to give it all back and find themselves as one of the worst teams again in the league.

For whatever reason, Rutgers has very little donor support so it funds itself struggling in the new era of college athletics with the unlimited transfers and pay to play. Both of which seem to affect them more than other programs. And in the Big Ten this disadvantage really adds extra pressure almost assuring them of a future of struggle and failure. Will Pikiell stick around? Will the university fire probably the best coach in its history because of their lack of success? Many questions around this program and few of them positive.

Are you looking for collegiate apparel including Spartan gear? There’s only one place we recommend you go to get your MSU T-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts — Nudge Printing (https://www.nudgeprinting.com) Nudge is owned and operated by Gabe and Brittany, two MSU alums. The business is operated out of Michigan and screen prints super high quality products. They also have a large assortment of apparel for other schools as well as stickers for your wall, car, or computer. To enter the free drawing go to (https://nudgeprinting.com/win).

If you have a home in Michigan you know the importance of clearing water efficiently away from your home off the roof. Unfortunately, the outdoor beauty of Michigan means you have to deal with leaves and debris that pile up in your gutters. Sometimes, those gutters also can’t keep up with the rain or leave puddles by your foundation.

If you live in the Grand Rapids area (Muskegon to Saugatuck to Rockford to Lowell) contact Kurt Stauffer at the Brothers that Just Do Gutters. (https://www.brothersgutters.com/grand-rapids-mi/).

If you’re anywhere in the metro Detroit area the Brothers have you covered too! (https://www.brothersgutters.com/metro-detroit-mi/). They are real professionals who will clean, repair, or replace your gutters and protect your home quickly and efficiently with friendly service.

Mention Final Four to get 10% off your gutter work.

Have you wondered why the world no longer looks clear out of your windows? Maybe you need a professional to clean them. There’s no better option for your window cleaning than your neighborhood window cleaners at the Squeegee Squad. They clean residential, commercial, and high rise windows. Also, if you need power washing on your house, the Squeegee Squad will treat it with kid gloves with their gentle wash that uses low pressure and surfactants. You won’t find a better team to care for the exterior or your house or business than the Squeegee Squad of Grand Rapids (https://squeegeesquad.com/locations/grand-rapids-mi/).

Book your free estimate here (https://squeegeesquad.com/grand-rapids-mi/grand-rapids-mi-free-estimate/).

Be sure to check out Fanduel Sportsbook for all your sports betting needs. They’ve got some great mobile tools and hundreds to ways to add some extra juice to your sport watching. You can find them at https://www.sportsbook.fanduel.com

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August 23, 2026: Just when you think things couldn’t get any nuttier in college basketball, it does and rosters for the upcoming season are as much in the lurch as ever before. State and federal court rulings are allowing a lot of graduated seniors opportunities to take another run at college. One such player is MSU’s Jaxon Kohler.

But this time Jax won’t be wearing the green and white and will instead stay home and play his 5th year at BYU. Why didn’t Izzo create room on the roster for Kohler when one of the spots was taken up by a former student manager? We get into the why’s in today’s episode.

Are you looking for collegiate apparel including Spartan gear? There’s only one place we recommend you go to get your MSU T-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts — Nudge Printing (https://www.nudgeprinting.com) Nudge is owned and operated by Gabe and Brittany, two MSU alums. The business is operated out of Michigan and screen prints super high quality products. They also have a large assortment of apparel for other schools as well as stickers for your wall, car, or computer. To enter the free drawing go to (https://nudgeprinting.com/win).

If you have a home in Michigan you know the importance of clearing water efficiently away from your home off the roof. Unfortunately, the outdoor beauty of Michigan means you have to deal with leaves and debris that pile up in your gutters. Sometimes, those gutters also can’t keep up with the rain or leave puddles by your foundation.

If you live in the Grand Rapids area (Muskegon to Saugatuck to Rockford to Lowell) contact Kurt Stauffer at the Brothers that Just Do Gutters. (https://www.brothersgutters.com/grand-rapids-mi/).

If you’re anywhere in the metro Detroit area the Brothers have you covered too! (https://www.brothersgutters.com/metro-detroit-mi/). They are real professionals who will clean, repair, or replace your gutters and protect your home quickly and efficiently with friendly service.

Mention Final Four to get 10% off your gutter work.

Have you wondered why the world no longer looks clear out of your windows? Maybe you need a professional to clean them. There’s no better option for your window cleaning than your neighborhood window cleaners at the Squeegee Squad. They clean residential, commercial, and high rise windows. Also, if you need power washing on your house, the Squeegee Squad will treat it with kid gloves with their gentle wash that uses low pressure and surfactants. You won’t find a better team to care for the exterior or your house or business than the Squeegee Squad of Grand Rapids (https://squeegeesquad.com/locations/grand-rapids-mi/).

Book your free estimate here (https://squeegeesquad.com/grand-rapids-mi/grand-rapids-mi-free-estimate/).

Be sure to check out Fanduel Sportsbook for all your sports betting needs. They’ve got some great mobile tools and hundreds to ways to add some extra juice to your sport watching. You can find them at https://www.sportsbook.fanduel.com

#MSUHoops #MichiganStateBasketball #MichiganState #bigtenbasketball #byubasketball #jaxonkohler #collegebasketball

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August 20, 2026: Once again, it looks like Mike Rhoades and his Penn State Nittany Lions are headed to the cellar of the Big Ten. It’s hard to imagine any other fate for a program that has such open lack of institutional support. It’s so blatant in Happy Valley that current AD Pat Kraft just publicly said the quite part out loud, “Penn State will never be near the top in spending on basketball in the Big Ten.”

It’s hard to imagine a worse situation for Rhoades as he attempted to forge a different path last year. Unable to pay top dollar for sought after transfers - he chose to take a developmental approach with freshmen and foreign players. How’d that work out? He lost 9 players and just has 2 returning. Apparently, Penn State will not provide its program with the support it needs to retain talent. It’s hard to imagine much good in the future for this program in the near or long term right now.

Are you looking for collegiate apparel including Spartan gear? There’s only one place we recommend you go to get your MSU T-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts — Nudge Printing (https://www.nudgeprinting.com) Nudge is owned and operated by Gabe and Brittany, two MSU alums. The business is operated out of Michigan and screen prints super high quality products. They also have a large assortment of apparel for other schools as well as stickers for your wall, car, or computer. To enter the free drawing go to (https://nudgeprinting.com/win).

If you have a home in Michigan you know the importance of clearing water efficiently away from your home off the roof. Unfortunately, the outdoor beauty of Michigan means you have to deal with leaves and debris that pile up in your gutters. Sometimes, those gutters also can’t keep up with the rain or leave puddles by your foundation.

If you live in the Grand Rapids area (Muskegon to Saugatuck to Rockford to Lowell) contact Kurt Stauffer at the Brothers that Just Do Gutters. (https://www.brothersgutters.com/grand-rapids-mi/).

If you’re anywhere in the metro Detroit area the Brothers have you covered too! (https://www.brothersgutters.com/metro-detroit-mi/). They are real professionals who will clean, repair, or replace your gutters and protect your home quickly and efficiently with friendly service.

Mention Final Four to get 10% off your gutter work.

Have you wondered why the world no longer looks clear out of your windows? Maybe you need a professional to clean them. There’s no better option for your window cleaning than your neighborhood window cleaners at the Squeegee Squad. They clean residential, commercial, and high rise windows. Also, if you need power washing on your house, the Squeegee Squad will treat it with kid gloves with their gentle wash that uses low pressure and surfactants. You won’t find a better team to care for the exterior or your house or business than the Squeegee Squad of Grand Rapids (https://squeegeesquad.com/locations/grand-rapids-mi/).

Book your free estimate here (https://squeegeesquad.com/grand-rapids-mi/grand-rapids-mi-free-estimate/).

Be sure to check out Fanduel Sportsbook for all your sports betting needs. They’ve got some great mobile tools and hundreds to ways to add some extra juice to your sport watching. You can find them at https://www.sportsbook.fanduel.com

#MSUHoops #MichiganStateBasketball #MichiganState #bigtenbasketball #pennstate #pennstatebasketball

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