Jaxon Kohler will get his chance to show he’s ready for the NBA. The Michigan State basketball forward has agreed to a non-guaranteed Exhibit 10 deal with his home state Utah Jazz after the 2026 NBA Draft on Wednesday, June 24, his father, Jeff, confirmed to the Free Press.
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Carson Cooper’s ascent from an off-the-radar project to an NBA player is one step closer to reality. The Michigan State basketball forward agreed to a two-way contract with the Memphis Grizzlies after the 2026 NBA Draft on Wednesday, June 24, according to ClutchPoints.com.
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Xavier Tillman will spend next season playing somewhere other than the NBA for the first time since he left Michigan State. The Grand Rapids native and six-year NBA veteran has been signed by Turkish club Trabzonspor B.K., the team announced Wednesday on social media. The Trabzon, Turkey-based team competes in the country’s top league, Basketbol Super Ligi.
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East Lansing is Jasiah Jervis’ home now, but Michigan State’s touted freshman shooting guard isn’t done collecting accolades for his stellar prep career in New York. Jervis has been named the 2026 Mr. New York Basketball winner by the Basketball Coaches Association of New York.
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Had things worked out differently, Jeremy Fears Jr. wouldn’t have been at Holt High School on Tuesday night. Jamming down an alley-oop dunk. Calling out a scoring error. Dishing the game-winning pass for his LAFCU team in the Moneyball Pro-Am. He would’ve been at the NBA Draft — maybe being picked, maybe waiting for the second round. But he wouldn’t have been back. A lot of Michigan State fans — even his teammates, probably his coach Tom Izzo — say thank god he is back.
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Michigan State Athletics has announced its All-Sports Awards for the 2025-26 season. The awards include the George Alderton Male and Female Athletes of the Year, Chester Brewer Leadership Award, Dr. James Feurig Achievement and Service Award, the Big Ten Conference Medals of Honor and the Big Ten Conference Outstanding Sportsmanship Award winners. A panel of administrators and athletics department staff selected the winners.
The Moneyball Pro-Am tipped off for its 21st year at Holt High School on Tuesday evening. Team Faygo took down Team Motorcars 78-73 in the first game, the Tri-Star Trust fell to LAFCU 87-84 on a Logan Blackledge buzzer-beater, and SPS beat BLTS 85-64 to close out the opening night. Check out the interviews News 10’s Ben Shockley did after the games with the Michigan State basketball players.
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It’s been a whirlwind few weeks for Michigan State athletics, but all the while Pat Fitzgerald and Co. are working on the designs for a debut season for a new-look Michigan State program in 2026. “Really what I felt strongly that we needed when I got here was the standards, the expectations, the urgency, the discipline,” Fitzgerald said earlier this offseason.
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The annual mid-Michigan summer basketball tournament is just a few days away, and earlier today the lineups were announced. This year’s Moneyball Pro-Am will begin on Tuesday, June 23 at Holt High School. Games will be played on Tuesdays and Thursdays through July 30. There will not be games on June 30 and July 2.
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The Big Ten Conference released the 2026-27 men’s ice hockey conference slate on Thursday afternoon, revealing opponents, weekends and locations for the upcoming season. Exact dates, times and television information will be announced at a later date.
J Batt is gone. Kevin Guskiewicz soon will follow. Their Spartan Ventures project, however, continues to move forward, approaching its July 1 start date that its head believes will boost revenue for Michigan State athletics.
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Pat Fitzgerald and his staff came to East Lansing with a clear directive: own the state of Michigan. Detroit has been ground zero for that effort, and it’s paying dividends. Detroit (MI) Martin Luther King product Don Spillers III has committed to MSU over the Illinois Fighting Illini, he announced at his high school today. Spillers’ other notable offers included Michigan, Maryland, Missouri, Pittsburgh and Purdue, among others. The future Spartan safety is a long, versatile athlete at 6-foot-2, 195 pounds. Spillers ranks as the No. 13 prospect in the state of Michigan and No. 62 athlete in the 2027 class per 247Sports.
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In light of the recent news of upcoming MSU leadership transition, our message is simple: Spartan Ventures is moving forward and it is primed to elevate MSU Athletics to new levels. Just last week at the MSU Board of Trustees meeting, MSU Board Chair Brianna Scott and Trustee Sandy Pierce affirmed the importance of Spartan Ventures. Trustee Pierce said that “this venture, long-term, is going to benefit not just athletics but the entire university.”
Kentucky Athletics is officially hiring Michigan State’s J Batt to be its next athletic director. Kentucky said in a press release on Monday morning Batt has been named the Chief Executive Officer of Champions Blue LLC and UK Athletics Director. This comes two days after ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported Kentucky is focusing in on Batt to be new athletic director. According to Thamel, Kentucky is giving Batt a 6-year deal to replace longtime A.D. Mitch Barnhart, who retired in April.
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State University athletic director J Batt has reportedly been named a frontrunner for the same position at the University of Kentucky, just over a year after assuming the position at MSU. Kentucky’s pursuit of Batt is part of a concentrated effort to return him to the SEC, according to reports made by ESPN’s Pete Thamel on Saturday afternoon. Batt worked in the SEC as a Deputy Athletics Director at the University of Alabama from 2017-2022.
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Noblesville (Ind.) High Rivals300 offensive lineman Caleb Johnson has committed to Michigan State. The Indianapolis-area road-grader chose to play for first-year head coach Pat Fitzgerald and the Spartans over an offer list that included Indiana, Iowa and Missouri. Michigan State was the first power four offer for the 6-foot-5, 275-pound Johnson who becomes commit No. 14 for the Spartans in the 2027 cycle.
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Michigan State football has made a late addition to their roster for the 2026 season. The Spartans have picked up Division II defensive lineman Aidan Boehle via the transfer portal. A 6-foot-6, 250-pound native of Minnetonka, Minnesota, Boehle has spent the first two seasons of his college career with Winona State. Over his time with the Warriors, he recorded five tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss and two sacks.
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Michigan State senior linebacker Jordan Hall has been named to Phil Steele’s Preseason All-Big Ten First Team, the annual publication announced on Wednesday. Five additional Spartans earned second-team preseason honors from Phil Steele: junior punter Rhys Dakin, redshirt senior center Trent Fraley, redshirt senior offensive lineman Conner Moore, redshirt senior offensive lineman Ben Murawski and redshirt junior kick returner Kenneth Williams.
News 8 Sports Director Jack Doles sits down with new Michigan State head coach Pat Fitzgerald about what the Spartans will bring to the field this season. (June 10, 2026)