Detroit has Hockeytown. Could East Lansing be the home of the nation's best basketball?

MSU's two teams combined have won 58 games and only experienced the pain of losing nine times.

Now to earn the crowns, the Spartans have to battle with the kings and queens of hoops.

Duke, Kentucky and Stanford have all left the party early. Louisiana State, Tennessee, North Carolina and Illinois still stand in the way.

The faces of MSU basketball are familiar around Breslin Center, but now the nation gets to share in the stories of both rising programs.

The women's team has used homegrown talent to rewrite the history books.

"We've enjoyed changing the culture of women's basketball at Michigan State," women's head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. "They've taken the culture here and turned it upside down."

The men's team has been in the shadows of past greats for four years and finally is creating its own legacy.

These 31 players already have four new banners to hang - two Final Fours, a Big Ten championship and conference tournament.

But the job isn't done yet because one trophy case seems empty. The other hasn't been opened for four years.

They crave two more trophies that read "National Champions."

Now both teams are on the same course, marking only the sixth time in NCAA history that both men's and women's teams have gone to the Final Four in the same year.

Could this Dance be for couples only?

That's been the rule the last four years - ask Connecticut, Texas and Oklahoma.

That's the feeling in East Lansing.

"It's something different than anyone else is doing and that would put us at different playing level for our university," men's head coach Tom Izzo said of the accomplishment.

The MSU community has been coming together for the two teams, using the excitement of the men to translate into cheering power for the women - new shirts, excessive media coverage and their own special ice cream flavor.

And both teams have come together to be each other's biggest fans. When the women knocked off Ohio State at Breslin to win a share of the Big Ten title, the men rushed the court and shared in the moment.

Often during the men's practice, junior guard Lindsay Bowen or senior guard Kristin Haynie peek their head in to watch.

"I talk to KT (Kelvin Torbert) and Alan (Anderson) all the time and they are always saying that since they won, that we need to do the same," Haynie said.

"We are one big happy family."