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(02/12/20 5:17am)
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — After blowing what was once a 20 point lead, forcing the final minutes to be played as a back and forth one point affair, Michigan State men’s basketball fought for a 70-69 win against Illinois on Tuesday night.
(02/11/20 5:03pm)
Following three straight losses, Michigan State men’s basketball has fallen from the AP Top 25 rankings for the first time since the 2016-17 season and have become just the second preseason No. 1 team to drop from the rankings since 1968. Fighting to get their season back on track, the Spartans will travel to Champaign-Urbana to face No. 22 Illinois on Tuesday night (ESPN, 9 p.m.).
(02/09/20 1:39am)
“We had a lot of adrenaline going into the game,” junior forward Xavier Tillman said. “Everybody was ready to play. It was just tough to make shots. You could just tell it was just going to be a tough night to make shots early on. We only had 23 points in the first half. My open threes weren't really going.”
(02/08/20 7:48pm)
ANN ARBOR — In what started as an offensive catastrophe, with MSU and Michigan combining for a total of six points in the first six minutes of the match-up, the Wolverines found the answer from the three-point line, and took the second rivalry meeting of the season, 77-68.
(02/08/20 1:00pm)
Even before coach Tom Izzo called a 7:30 a.m. meeting the morning after dropping its second straight to Penn State and proceeded to have a practice full of “energy,” a focal point of late, you could get a sense Michigan State had a grasp on its recent struggles ahead of its rematch with Michigan Saturday at 12 p.m.
(02/07/20 3:30pm)
Know Thy Enemy is a weekly Q&A where the perspective changes from the eyes of The State News to the eyes of the student newspaper of Michigan State basketball's opponent.
(02/05/20 5:55pm)
One voice stood out to senior guard Cassius Winston in a Breslin Center crowd that struck near deafening all night.
(02/05/20 3:48am)
No. 16 Michigan State (16-7, 8-4 Big Ten) fell to No. 22 Penn State (17-5, 7-4 Big ten), 75-70, at the Breslin Center on Tuesday night.
(02/04/20 2:00pm)
No. 16 Michigan State men’s basketball will host what coach Tom Izzo called “the hottest team in the league,” when No. 22 Penn State travels to the Breslin Center Tuesday night. The Nittany Lions (16-5 overall, 6-4 Big Ten) will tip-off against the Spartans at 8 p.m., looking to extend a four-game win streak.
(02/03/20 7:04pm)
A narrow, one-point loss against in-conference opponent Wisconsin has dropped Michigan State men's basketball two spots to No. 16 in week 14 of the AP Poll.
(02/02/20 5:45pm)
Then-No. 1 Michigan State entered Madison Square Garden in the opening game of the season against Kentucky. Freshman guard Rocket Watts hit a cutting senior guard Cassius Winston, and MSU was quickly up 2-0 but failed to see another lead in the contest. The same team was blitzed from the opening tip by Duke — and by a much larger margin — on its home court.
(02/01/20 8:47pm)
MADISON, Wis. — After a dreadfully slow start for Michigan State men's basketball, an early second-half scoring run, led by freshman guard Rocket Watts, almost brought the game into the hands of the Spartans, but the Badgers wouldn't let the game go on their own court. Wisconsin topped MSU 64-63 Saturday afternoon in Madison to continue a difficult season on the road for Big Ten teams.
(02/01/20 3:14am)
Wisconsin (12-9, 5-5 Big Ten) will be without Brad Davison as he serves his one-game suspension for a flagrant foul he committed in the Badgers’ 68-62 loss to Iowa when No. 14 Michigan State (16-5, 8-2 Big Ten) travels to Kohl Center on Saturday. The junior guard averages 8.8 points on 4.4 rebounds.
(01/30/20 8:11pm)
With his team up 20 midway through the second half, Michigan State men's basketball coach Tom Izzo committed a technical. He was clearly displeased throughout the contest, and he had reason to be, as MSU forfeited its 16-2 start in a first half that became as close as 18-15. The Spartans would regain form in the second half, defeating Northwestern, 79-50.
(01/30/20 4:03am)
No. 14 Michigan State swept Northwestern Wednesday night with a 79-50 victory over the Wildcats. Senior guard Cassius Winston lead the team with 18 points, but beyond Winston’s scoring, other parts of the MSU line-up shined.
(01/30/20 2:05am)
Hosting a 6:30 tip, No. 14 Michigan State (16-5, 8-2 Big Ten) compounded this abnormality with another, jumping out to a quick 16-2 lead in a 79-50 win over Northwestern (6-14, 1-9 Big Ten).
(01/29/20 6:16pm)
No. 14 Michigan State men's will look to sweep Northwestern (6-13 overall, 1-8 Big Ten) when the Wildcats travel to the Breslin Center on Wednesday (BTN, 6:30 EST).
(01/30/20 4:29pm)
“Family.” That’s how the Michigan State men’s basketball teams breaks out of its huddle. And after the death of former NBA player Kobe Bryant on Jan. 26, that chant meant a little bit more. “One of the things that people lose sight of is that (Bryant) was a tremendous basketball player and he taught everybody how to work hard and how to compete at a high level, but he was a family man after that,” sophomore forward Aaron Henry said. “That’s what inspired me the most from him."Bryant, 41, died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California shortly after 9 a.m. on Sunday. The NBA Champion’s 13-year-old daughter Gianna was also killed in the crash, among seven others. Bryant had three other daughters and a wife, Vanessa, who were not involved in the accident.As a father himself, junior forward Xavier Tillman said the news struck closer to home for his wife Tamia because she saw a similarity between Tillman and Bryant and their value for family.“When I got home, (Tamia) was talking about how he is such a family man and I am myself,” Tillman said.Bryant, a Philadelphia native, was drafted straight out of high school and went on to spend 20 seasons as a shooting guard for the Los Angeles Lakers. He was a five-time NBA champion (2000-2002, 2009, 2010) and had 18 NBA All-Star appearances before retiring in 2016.“It speaks so much about a man when you don’t know him … and yet the idolization, the respect, it was like, oh my God,” Izzo said in a press conference after MSU’s Jan. 26 win over Minnesota, according to the Detroit Free Press. “That win meant nothing three minutes into it. I was amazed just watching different players that I didn’t think would really look at things that way. It kind of tells you how fragile life is.”As a decorated basketball icon, athletes around the country, including former and current Spartan players, found themselves at a loss for words in reaction to his death. When Izzo told senior guard Cassius Winston after the Minnesota game, Winston’s mouth fell, his face froze. "Kobe?” Winston was caught by Fox cameras asking. After Izzo nodded, Winston clarified. “Bryant?" he asked, wide-eyed. Izzo nodded again. "Wow," Winston said. “Just unreal,” Winston said, thinking back to the moment. “Some people, you never think that anything bad can happen to them and that’s one of those guys. He was a great guy, great for the basketball world ... so to hear that tragic news, it was really sad.”Tillman, who admitted being a long-time LeBron James fan, acknowledged the growing appreciation he gained for Bryant’s game, specifically for his scoring abilities, as Tillman learned to be a better player himself.“As I got older, and I wanted to learn the intricacies of being a scorer and really knowing the details of being a scorer, I really locked in on Kobe,” Tillman said. “I noticed that he was really one of the best scorers you’ve ever seen and a great champion and a great person.”Winston said it was Bryant’s mentality, the one that carried him through life beyond the court, that inspired him the most. “Just the fact that he was going to be the best ... no matter what it is, who was out there, what he was doing,” Winston said. “That’s a mentality that a lot of people can learn from.”As the country mourns, whether it be with candlelit ceremonies or the painting of a rock, Henry left off with a reminder that Bryant’s death brought forward to the country — players are more than just the game.“Just showing me what kind of a man he was before a basketball player,” Henry said of Bryant. “People lose sight of that, and it’s sad that death has to happen to draw people closer to that and realize what life really is about.
(01/28/20 5:45pm)
Recall Feb. 7, 2015, an occasion on which a Michigan State men's basketball team flirting with the bubble and playing on its home floor recorded its eighth loss to NIT-bound Illinois.
(01/27/20 8:49pm)
Jim Morrison, the troubled frontman of The Doors, was the author of probably my favorite poem, "The Severed Garden." Morrison, who surely knew his final hours were approaching — owing to his hedonistic lifestyle — wrote that “death makes angels of us all, and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven’s claws.”