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(01/30/24 7:49pm)
Michigan State men's basketball's graduate student guard Tyson Walker was named a Midseason Top 10 candidate for the 2024 Jerry West Award, recognizing the top shooting guards in Division I college basketball, the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame announced Tuesday afternoon.
(01/29/24 10:49pm)
Last Friday night in Madison was an eye-opener for the Michigan State men’s basketball team, a preseason AP top five team that never found a real pulse or rhythm for 40 minutes of play against No. 6 Wisconsin in a game with major implications for MSU’s postseason résumé.
(01/27/24 5:13am)
Michigan State’s men’s basketball entered the Kohl Center on Friday night as winners of eight out of its previous 10 games. Going head-to-head with the No. 13 Wisconsin Badgers, the Spartans faced one of just a handful of its remaining opportunities to pick up a statement conference win.
(01/27/24 4:00am)
In a Friday night showdown in Madison for Michigan State’s men’s basketball team, Wisconsin showed the country why it sits atop the Big Ten, besting the Spartans 81-66 in a game controlled by the Badgers the whole way.
(01/24/24 10:01pm)
MSU men's basketball, winners of its last three contests and eight out of its last ten, is a different team heading into Madison on Tuesday night than it was when the conference-leading Wisconsin Badgers came into the Breslin Center on Dec. 5 and sent a sellout crowd home empty-handed.
(01/21/24 9:26pm)
Over two months into the 2023-2024 college basketball season, Michigan State finally picked up a road win to hang its hat on. It wasn't trending in that direction, though. Down three points with eight minutes remaining at Maryland on Sunday afternoon, it appeared the Spartans would once again squander a golden opportunity on the road just over a week after the team blew a late lead to No. 14 Illinois.
(01/20/24 10:03pm)
After a rocky game against Minnesota that ended in the Spartans pulling ahead with a 76-66 victory, the Michigan State men's basketball team will once again hit the road to take on Maryland on Sunday afternoon in an attempt to hit .500 in conference games.
(01/19/24 5:07am)
Graduate student forward Malik Hall has been a staple on the Michigan State men’s basketball team since he came in as a freshman in 2019. Now 135 games into his career, the Spartan veteran has surpassed 1,000 points.
(01/19/24 2:37am)
Malik Hall started it and Tyson Walker finished it.
(01/18/24 12:39am)
After returning to the winning column Sunday afternoon against Rutgers, the Michigan State men’s basketball team will be back home Thursday night to take on the Minnesota Golden Gophers.
(01/14/24 10:43pm)
After five years, it finally happened.
(01/14/24 7:57pm)
The Michigan State men’s basketball team reignited in the second half against Rutgers to win 73-55 after dropping a close road game to No. 10 Illinois on Thursday.
(01/13/24 10:50pm)
After narrowly falling to No. 10 Illinois on Thursday, the 9-7 Michigan State men’s basketball team will look to put its 1-4 start in Big Ten play behind it and take advantage of its favorable schedule for the next month, starting Sunday at noon against Rutgers in East Lansing.
(01/12/24 3:02pm)
Michigan State men’s basketball’s back-and-forth 71-68 loss at No. 10 Illinois was about as even of a matchup as you could hope to see during Big Ten basketball season.The Spartans and the Fighting Illini both shot 42% from the floor Thursday night. Where Michigan State had seven turnovers, Illinois had eight. Where Michigan State had 37 rebounds, Illinois had 34. Pretty much everything on paper Thursday in Champaign looked nearly identical — until you looked at the free-throw column. The Fighting Illini made 22 trips to the free throw line, making 18 shots. Michigan State went to the line seven times and converted just five trips into points. “I actually thought we did a hell of a job defensively,” head coach Tom Izzo said following the game. “I think the difference in the game was the free-throw line. I was a little disappointed if I was being honest. They do have a tendency to draw fouls, but I thought the discrepancy was a little bit tough.”Illinois did a good job at driving toward the basket and drawing fouls on the way there throughout the game, putting some of MSU’s star players in foul trouble early. Graduate student guard Tyson Walker and graduate student forward Malik Hall were both instrumental in keeping the Spartans in the game with 17 and 14 points respectively, but they both ended the night with four fouls each. After the game, Izzo said that he thought Walker got out of his game after getting into foul trouble. The usual offensive machine went 1-7 from the three-point line and had to spend some time on the bench after logging his third foul early in the second half. The Spartans play aggressively in the paint, which has been evident all season, but they have to be able to play their strong defensive style without getting whistled over and over again. “Everybody's got to improve, but we just got beat by a damn good team — with a free throw discrepancy, like it is,” Izzo said. “I feel good about our performance, as far as how hard we played, and what we did, and how well we rebounded against the team that has been kicking everybody's butt on the boards. So, we're going to get better. We’re going to grow from here. We’re going to get better. Everybody will give up on us, and that's fine with me — I don't even blame them — but I think I know where this team can still get and I'm going to get them there.”The Spartans are now sitting at 1-4 in Big Ten play, but they will have the chance to redeem themselves Sunday at home against the Rutgers Scarlet Knights at noon on Big Ten Network.
(01/11/24 3:08am)
The Michigan State men’s basketball team will get back on the road Thursday to take on No. 10 Illinois after its tough 88-74 loss to Northwestern Sunday night.
(01/05/24 4:02pm)
Ever since Michigan State’s men’s basketball team’s 77-70 loss at Nebraska on Dec. 10 to drop to 0-2 in conference play, the Spartans have played like an entirely different team.
(12/31/23 1:35am)
For the Michigan State men’s basketball final matchup of 2023, the team got a flash from the past against their 1979 National Championship opponent.
(12/30/23 10:24pm)
In a rematch of the 1979 National Championship, Michigan State’s basketball team capped off its rollercoaster of a month in style.
(12/23/23 8:00pm)
Michigan State basketball’s Jeremy Fears Jr. was shot in the leg late Friday/early Saturday and underwent surgery, the team announced Saturday afternoon.
(12/22/23 5:15am)
Michigan State men’s basketball shared the love Thursday night in its 99-55 victory over Stony Brook.