Three time All-American and two time Big ten player of the year. Also, the star of the 2000 National Championship team at Michigan State University and former NBA player. Now, a leadership coach at United Wholesale Mortgage, Mateen Cleaves joins us to talk about his career as a Michigan State player as well his NBA playing days.
There might not be a more appropriate representation of the Mark Dantonio era at Michigan State than a punter being named first-team All-Decade. Forever Spartan Mike Sadler has been named just that by the Big Ten Network, becoming just the second Spartan to make the first team.
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Following the 2020 NFL Draft, the New Orleans Saints signed former Michigan State Spartans linebacker Joe Bachie as an undrafted free agent. Undrafted free agents have more difficult paths of making an active NFL roster, so what are Bachie’s chances of making a name for himself in the Big Easy?
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Michigan State’s athletic department saw no new cases of the coronavirus in 41 tests issued Monday, with one Spartan getting a second positive result.
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Gates, who is now 6-1 and 176 pounds with 4.55 speed, has already received offers from multiple Power Five teams, including Michigan State, Kentucky, Mississippi, West Virginia, and Nebraska. “I’ve been talking to Coach Levy a lot about Michigan State and how I would fit in,” said Gates of new MSU player personnel director Sean Levy.
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Bates is a transcended talent whose presence alone automatically would make Michigan State a national championship favorite for the 2022-2023 season (or 2021-2022 season if he reclassifies). So, of course, Michigan State Spartans supporters are ecstatic about what this means for the future of the program.
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Michigan State landed a cornerstone prospect this week in Emoni Bates — a player Tom Izzo can build a team around to make a run at an NCAA title. Now comes the task of planning the pieces around the top-ranked prospect in the country to give him and the Spartans the best chance to succeed.
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The cornerbacks on Big Ten Network’s All-Decade football team either came from Michigan or played in the state. Michigan State’s Darqueze Dennard and Iowa’s Desmond King, a Detroit native, were chosen by the network’s voting panel as the two best at their position in the 2010s.
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In this emergency pod, Dan re-welcomes everyone back to Breslin Banter. This isn’t how he wanted to reintroduce the pod, but when EMONI BATES commits to Michigan State, you’ve gotta make some adjustments. Here he also introduces his new co-host, David Klein, and they go in-depth on what to expect from the new brand, Spartan Hoops.
Emoni Bates may never take a shot for Michigan State. His commitment to the Spartans’ basketball program Monday was a big win for Tom Izzo anyway. The best high school player in the country told a national audience he loved the Green and White. On the recruiting trail, that will help almost as much as Bates’ silky jumpers. Just ask Izzo, who can’t talk about Bates’ announcement just yet, but who has said in the past that winning doesn’t influence recruiting as much as signing and sending other star recruits to the NBA. The best players in the country look at the path of other players.
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In this episode, 2021 Michigan State basketball commit Pierre Brooks joins the podcast to discuss his commitment to Michigan State, as well as who he’s trying to recruit alongside him at Michigan State!
Emoni Bates commits to MSU for the 2022 class. We discuss why we think he will actually see the floor at the Breslin, and what it means for the program going forward. Welcome to MSU Emoni!!!
Bates could reclassify and forego his senior season in high school to enter college a year early, and join guard Pierre Brooks II as part of the Spartans’ 2021 class. Both Bates and his father, Elgin, told ESPN’s Jeff Borzello they have not made any decision; however, Sports Illustrated’s Michael Rosenberg reported Monday that Bates will indeed reclassify. “After this year it will tell me everything I need to know,” Bates told ESPN. “I can’t decide on that right now. After this year, if it’s too easy, I might – but if not, I’m probably going to play another year.”
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Ypsilanti Lincoln basketball phenom Emoni Bates, the No. 1 prospect in the country for the 2022 class, committed to Michigan State basketball during a live interview on ESPN on Monday.
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NFL Network’s Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks catch up with Michigan State Spartans head coach Mel Tucker to talk about how he and his team have been navigating a unique offseason.
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Friday will be “College Day” at the Michigan Amateur. Michigan State’s James Piot, of Canton, will meet incoming Michigan State freshmen August Meekhof of suburban Grand Rapids in one of Friday’s semifinals. The championship match is set for Friday afternoon on the Heather course at Boyne.
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Two more Michigan State athletes received positive results for the novel coronavirus after a second round of testing Monday. That makes five Spartan athletes who have tested positive for COVID-19, one of whom has since tested negative. That male was revealed to have had coronavirus at home after his father’s death from COVID-19, MSU director of sports medicine and performance Dr. Jeffrey Kovan said June 4, but the athlete eventually tested negative a few weeks later.
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Tom Izzo kept his elite program rolling at an extremely high level throughout the 2010s, which makes him the Big Ten men’s basketball Coach of the Decade, according to Big Ten Network. Michigan State’s longtime coach was chosen by a media panel as the best in the conference over the past 10 years, a stretch that includes four Big Ten Tournament titles, four Big Ten regular-season championships and three Final Four appearances.
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