May 30, 2024: Summer brings us time to reflect on the Spartan teams of the past and current events in the college basketball world. Today, we decided to riff off a column by Graham Couch from the LSJ and look back at past MSU teams to rank which teams were the best that never won it all.

Although the LSJ column focused just on past Izzo teams, Rod decided to head into the vault and add a team from the Heathcote area in his top 10.

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May 23, 2024: One of the new additions to the Big Ten this year will be the USC Trojans. Best known for their football, the Trojans have had some success on the hard court as well. Especially located in Southern California, USC has access to some great talent and money.

However, USC just had their long time coach, Andy Ensfield, depart for other opportunities and welcomes in a coaching lightning rod - Eric Musselman. Whether Musselman keeps his shirt on is unlikely, how he navigates the portal and NIL situation at USC is definitely unknown.

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May 14, 2024: Today, the MSU Spartans landed what appears to be the last piece of the roster puzzle in 7 foot 240# Szymon Zapala. With this center, addition it appears that Tom Izzo has added depth inside without upsetting the dynamics in the locker room with Kohler and Cooper.

Zapala played his first three seasons at Utah State in a limited role behind a future NBA center and Euro league center. So last year he headed out East to Longwood University where he started 24 games and averaged 9.8 ppg, 5.6 rpg, and 0.8 bpg shooting 63/67/66 (on only 3 3-point attempts). He had moderate success against high major competition in the few games where Longwood played.

(Errata: Eric misnamed Szymon Zapala with the last name Zalaska and referred to Longwood as in California but it is in Virginia.)

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