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The 1992 MSU graduate, who owns a local flooring and carpet company, has a shrine to everything Spartan in the basement of his home in Okemos - including a museum-quality collection of memorabilia and wall-to-wall green carpet covered with the team's logo, like large polka-dots.

Rycus watches or attends every game and has been known to skip family functions to do so.

But he doesn't feel "the normal, built-in hatred" for the New Mexico State University Aggies - MSU's

opponent tonight in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament - that he conjures for most opponent