The Michigan State Spartans men’s ice hockey team is looking for any sign of life down the stretch. MSU’s first test in the Big Ten Tournament will be against the No. 5-ranked Michigan Wolverines.
To start 2022, the Spartans were a fringe NCAA Tournament team. Now those hopes are long gone. Realistically, winning the Big Ten Tournament is MSU’s only hope to make the national tournament. That would require getting past No. 5 Michigan, and Minnesota, ranked No. 2 nationally.
The top Big Ten seed went to Minnesota, as the Golden Gophers just clinched the program’s fifth Big Ten regular season title in the eight-year history of Big Ten hockey.