MSU is 29-6 overall and finished 17-3 in the Big Ten, winning the regular-season conference title. Freshman guard Jase Richardson is its top player. The Rebels, the No. 6 seed and coached by Chris Beard,

Coen Carr has gotten his first career start for Michigan State in a homecoming at the NCAA Tournament's South Region semifinals.

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Michigan State (29-6) is in the midst of its 27th straight NCAA Tournament appearance, the longest active streak in the country. At age 70, Izzo has the Spartans in the Sweet 16 for the 16th time in his three-decade-long career.

ATLANTA — The locker rooms said it all. Auburn, as the best seed in the South Regional (the best seed in the whole NCAA Tournament, in fact) earned the Atlanta Hawks’ locker room. Each player had a roomy cubby and staffers and reporters had ample space to operate.

Western Michigan is the last team from the state left in the NCAA Tournament. Michigan State lost to Cornell, 4-3, in Toledo, where Cornell scored a power-play goal with 10 seconds left in the third period. Minnesota State finishes the season 27-9-3.

The second seed Michigan State Spartans faces a determined Cornell University squad in the opening round of the 2025 Men's Frozen Four.

While some people may decry the lack of upsets in the first two rounds of the men’s NCAA Tournament, the result is a Sweet 16 filled with the best teams in the country. All four No. 1 seeds are still alive, and there’s plenty of talent on the rosters who are trying to upset them en route to the Elite Eight.