The 2025-26 season has already been an interesting one thus far for Michigan State basketball.
The Spartans opened the year with an 11-point win over Colgate and then picked up a top-15 win over Arkansas in a Saturday night thriller. On top of that, the Spartans’ top two remaining 2026 targets are announcing their commitments on Friday, and Michigan State is expected to get one of them.
Spartan fans are also keeping a close eye on some former players who decided to transfer out this offseason like Tre Holloman, Xavier Booker, and Gehrig Normand.
Booker has been playing well with UCLA, Normand is out with an injury until December at least, and Holloman was averaging 14.5 points per game before a Wednesday night matchup with UNC Greensboro. Unfortunately, he finished with zero points because he was ejected four minutes into the game due to an altercation during a timeout with a UNC Greensboro player.
But honestly, the “altercation” was fairly harmless, and it could have gone with maybe just a single technical foul, and not a full-blown ejection.
Here’s what happened:
Here’s a look at what transpired in NC State vs. UNCG.
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NC State’s Tre Holloman was ejected for his actions, while Quadir Copeland picked up a technical. pic.twitter.com/RpkFMmAojx
Holloman bumped a UNC Greensboro player who bumped into his teammate, and then Holloman got into a bit of a shouting match. The move that may have led to the ejection was him lightly pushing the ref he was standing behind to go jaw at the UNC Greensboro player again.
If there’s one thing you have to commend Holloman for, it’s that he’s always standing up for his teammates. He may not be a Spartan anymore, but that’s why he was so beloved in East Lansing.
This felt like kind of a lame ejection.