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1 week ago | 
247sports.com | Stephen Brooks
Ramil: 'My confidence is at an all-time high right now.'The calendar says Stanton Ramil is preparing for his third season at Michigan State, with the Spartans currently on the downslope of spring practice. In the mind of the redshirt sophomore offensive tackle, though, it's almost like his college career is finally, truly beginning.
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2 weeks ago | 
247sports.com | Stephen Brooks
Adams was hired in January after 3 seasons at Wake ForestHeading into his second season as the head coach at Michigan State, Jonathan Smith has a pair of new position coaches on his staff, one on each side of the ball.
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2 weeks ago | 
247sports.com | Stephen Brooks
Glenn heading to East Lansing after second-team All-AAC season at FAUVIPSeven months before Michigan State's 2025-26 season begins, redshirt sophomore point guard Jeremy Fears Jr. has tallied his first assist. As MSU began sorting through potential transfer targets, it was actually Fears who made first contact with former Louisville and Florida Atlantic forward Kaleb Glenn, who announced his commitment to the Spartans on Thursday.
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2 weeks ago | 
247sports.com | Stephen Brooks
The playing of "One Shining Moment" following the national championship on Monday night puts a bow on the college basketball season every year. Over the past decade or so, a new tradition has developed on Tuesday, the first official day of the sport's offseason, with the rollout of "way-too-early" top 25 rankings from various outlets and analysts.
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2 weeks ago | 
247sports.com | Stephen Brooks
Grady has one season left to play after 3 at Colorado State, one at Florida StateAt age 21, Grady Kelly is already a well-traveled man with some life experience to him. The defensive tackle from Navarre, Florida, native is married, he's played in 38 college football games, and, now at Michigan State, he's on his third school with one final season of eligibility to use.
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2 weeks ago | 
247sports.com | Stephen Brooks
Tom Izzo's 30th season coaching Michigan State ended in the Elite 8. A year after the Hall of Famer promised his fan base he'd get back to another deep NCAA Tournament run "or die trying," Izzo made good on his word, taking the Spartans one game short of his ninth Final Four. The curtain has fallen on the 2024-25 season, too, as of Monday night when Florida came back on Houston to clinch the national championship, 65-63.
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2 weeks ago | 
247sports.com | Stephen Brooks
Jase Richardson is letting go of one dream to advance toward another. In the sullen Michigan State locker room after the Spartans' Elite 8 loss to Atlanta, the program's star freshman sat at his locker and said he's held a goal of reaching a Final Four since he was 6 years old. It'll be up to Jason Richardson III to accomplish that, as Jase Richardson is moving on. Richardson on Tuesday announced his first season in East Lansing will be his last, as he's entering the 2025 NBA Draft.
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2 weeks ago | 
247sports.com | Stephen Brooks
Former 5-star recruit is staying within the Big TenFormer Michigan State forward Xavier Booker has found his next program. In one sense, Booker's next stop is a great distance away, but in other, he won't be too far from his old program. Booker is staying within the Big Ten but heading to the league's western branch, as he announced Friday he'll be transferring to UCLA to continue his career. The former five-star recruit and McDonald's All-American has two years of eligibility remaining.
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2 weeks ago | 
247sports.com | Stephen Brooks
Spring practice in East Lansing has crested, with the Spartans embarking on the downslope of their 15 practices this weekend. Saturday's session will be practice No. 9, and an important one as Michigan State plans to hold its first intrasquad scrimmage. "We wanted to let them just kind of play, so put the ball down and have to operate, try to move and get stops, those kind of things," head coach Jonathan Smith said on Thursday.
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3 weeks ago | 
247sports.com | Stephen Brooks
For a player who never played more than 6 minutes in a game, outgoing Michigan State guard Gehrig Normand became a fan favorite and beloved figure in the Spartan locker room for his demonstrative bench celebrations and unfailingly positive attitude. After two years in East Lansing, though, Normand has decided to take the next steps in his career elsewhere, entering the transfer portal on Tuesday. He has three seasons of college eligibility remaining after taking a redshirt year in 2023-24.
