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(12/15/12 3:39am)
Assistant coach Lauren Aitch instructs MSU former forward Jon Garavaglia, left, MSU former guard Charlie Bell, center, and MSU ex-center Idong Ibok, right, on the sidelines of the MSU alumni basketball game at Jenison Field House on Friday. Aitch, along with MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio, helped the White team beat the Green team, 125-118. Danyelle Morrow/The State News
(07/24/12 2:09am)
To appreciate the mystique of the Olympic games, one needs to look no further than the Opening Ceremonies. While the world watches, nations divided by race, language, political and religious ideologies come together to celebrate the pinnacle of athletic achievement under one unified event.
(06/25/12 1:48am)
There was nothing but bragging rights on the line during Saturday’s Kick for the House event, but at times the competitive nature overtook some of the former MSU athletes.
(02/22/11 9:17pm)
Playing in the NBA is almost certainly a dream for any young man in the world who loves the game of basketball.
(10/25/09 11:25pm)
Saturday’s men’s basketball Green and White game meant ditto in the win and loss column, but provided fans with a first-hand look at some of the team’s biggest story lines entering the season.
(10/15/09 12:24am)
As he was going through workouts and individual skill work this summer, junior forward Tom Herzog had a motivation he never had in his first three years with the MSU men’s basketball team.
(04/22/09 9:56pm)
As a part of its academic reform program, the NCAA recognized the MSU men’s basketball and baseball teams for their top academic performance this year.
(04/10/09 1:40am)
One of the best things about sports is that there’s always next year (just ask Chicago Cubs fans). And while the MSU men’s basketball team had an unbelievable run to the national championship game, losing 89-72 to North Carolina on Monday night, it’s never too early to look ahead to the future.
(04/08/09 10:55pm)
The MSU men’s basketball team ended its 2008-09 season in the national championship game Monday night, overcoming injuries, illnesses and naysayers throughout the season.
(04/08/09 3:35am)
The MSU men’s basketball team fell one game short of the mountaintop Monday, losing to North Carolina 89-72 in the National Championship at Ford Field.
(04/07/09 6:09am)
Detroit — Travis Walton had it all figured out.
(04/06/09 1:47am)
Detroit — Bryan Tibaldi never made it to the NCAA national championship as a player.
(04/05/09 3:39am)
Detroit — Sophomore guards Chris Allen and Durrell Summers were scoreless in the first half.
(04/05/09 3:10am)
Idong Ibok embraces Goran Suton after MSU beat Connecticut Saturday evening in the NCAA Final Four at Ford Field in Detroit. MSU beat the Huskies, 82-73, to advance to the NCAA Championship Monday in Detroit.
(04/03/09 10:08pm)
Senior center Idong Ibok puts up a shot while his teammates Marquise Gray, a senior forward, center, and Draymond Green, a freshman forward, watch during an open practice Friday afternoon at Ford Field in Detroit. MSU is returning to the Final Four and will play Connecticut Saturday at 6:07 p.m.
(04/03/09 8:15pm)
Detroit — Connecticut’s Hasheem Thabeet is getting most of the publicity heading into the Final Four, but MSU has a foreign center of its own that could pay huge dividends Saturday night.
(04/03/09 1:21am)
Playing just a short drive from Breslin Center, the MSU men’s basketball team will try to knock off its second consecutive Big East opponent when it faces Connecticut at 6:07 p.m. Saturday in the Final Four at Ford Field. The Huskies (31-4) finished second in the talented Big East this year while the Spartans (30-6) won the Big Ten regular season championship.
(04/03/09 1:15am)
During his sophomore year, Travis Walton was sitting at a barbershop when he overheard a man talking about God. “Do you really believe that?” Walton asked the stranger. He replied that he did. The man was Jesse Brown, a pastor at Rivers of Life Church, 2495 N. Cedar St., in Lansing. His message struck Walton, now a senior guard on the MSU men’s basketball team. Interested and intrigued by Brown and his beliefs, Walton began going to Rivers of Life regularly — although only after his grandmother met and approved of Brown.
(04/03/09 12:42am)
A few years ago, MSU men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo was sitting in his office at the Alfred Berkowitz Basketball Complex.
(04/03/09 12:21am)
When the MSU men’s basketball team made its remarkable run to the Final Four in 2005, three redshirts sat on the end of the bench waiting for their chance to get on college basketball’s biggest stage.