# Ep. 1121: Joe Rexrode on MSU basketball's NCAA tournament seeding and chances at a run

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Podcast: [Couch and The Rube](https://stenobird.com/podcast/couch-and-the-rube-780757)
Published: 2026-03-04T19:23:52+00:00
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Duration seconds: 4313

## Resource

We opened with discussion Michigan State basketball's seniors heading into the Spartans home finale. Then a conversation with The Athletic's bracketologist and former MSU beat writer Joe Rexrode on the Spartans' most likely NCAA tournament seed, their chances of making a run, and whether Jeremy Fears Jr. or Michigan's Yaxel Lendeborg deserves to be the Big Ten player of the year (21:00). Finally, we talk Tigers, Pistons and Lions at the end (56:00).

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