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(01/22/23 3:00pm)
The season started on Jan. 6 for the No. 14 ranked Michigan State gymnastics team (1-1), but the Spartans are back home Jan. 22 for their home opener against No. 3 Michigan (4-1).This season, the Spartans received their highest Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association preseason ranking (12) since 2000—which is not surprising given the record-breaking season MSU had last year. Michigan State set program records for every single event in 2022, and ended the season ranked ninth in the nation—a program high.To start off the 2023 season, two Spartans received Big Ten Gymnast to watch accolades—freshman Nikki Smith and sophomore captain Gabi Stephen. Smith garnered national attention after videos of her energetic floor routine during her first meet made their way online. The two-time USA Gymnastics Development Program all-around champion kicked off her collegiate career with a 9.850 on floor and topped it last weekend with a 9.900.
(01/22/23 2:30pm)
After dropping its fourth straight game to No. 10 Iowa in overtime, Michigan State women’s basketball (10-9, 2-6) is back at the Breslin Center to take on Rutgers (8-12, 2-6).
(01/20/23 6:57pm)
On Oct. 22, 2020, Michigan State University announced that its varsity swim and dive teams would be dissolved following that NCAA season. The release – which was jointly signed by then-President Samuel L. Stanley Jr. and then-athletic director Bill Beekman – attributed the decision to the athletics revenue crisis brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
(02/02/23 2:30pm)
In collegiate athletics, the end of the season can bring fan celebrations, bowl victories and championship trophies. It can also bring heartache or a sigh of relief signifying the end of a disappointing year.
(01/20/23 6:00pm)
Prior to the start of the 2022-23 season, there was concern around the lack of experience in the middle. With junior center Mady Sissoko playing shortened minutes the previous season and two freshman coming in, it was uncertain how things would shake out.
(01/20/23 2:05am)
Taking complete control in the waning minutes, Michigan State beat No. 23 Rutgers 70-57, snapping a two-game conference losing streak and moving to 5-3 in Big Ten play.
(01/19/23 4:00pm)
In the Michigan State women’s basketball team’s 84-81 nail-biting, overtime loss to the No. 10 Iowa Hawkeyes, the largest disparity on the score sheet was at the bottom of the personal foul column.Through the 45 minutes of play, three players fouled out for the Spartans, leaving the green and white down two starters and a double-digit scorer by the end of the game.With seven and a half minutes left in regular time, senior forward Taiyier Parks fouled out. A few minutes later, sophomore forward Isaline Alexander followed, and as the seconds were winding down in overtime, sophomore guard DeeDee Hagemann logged her fifth foul of the game, sending her to the bench as well. In total, Michigan State logged a season-high 25 fouls throughout the course of the game — significantly higher than its season average of about 18 fouls per game.On the other side of the court, graduate student forward/center Monika Czinano was the only Hawkeye player who fouled out. Iowa had just 16 fouls total.Head coach Suzy Merchant said that she thought the calls were a little one sided on Wednesday night.“I think they get—Cait (Caitlin Clark) gets—the benefit of the doubt. I mean, anytime she drives, the whistle's ready to go,” Merchant said. “I thought there were times when they were initiating the contact and we had verticality and they were driving into us and we were strapped up and on our end those were kind of no calls.”The veteran head coach said that although some of the fouls were warranted — especially towards the end of the scrappy game — the disparity between the end foul totals for the two Big Ten teams was too great. “They didn't call them for us, but on their end it seemed to be a foul, so I thought that was disappointing,” Merchant said. “Now, we had fouled a little bit down the stretch there, but not enough to be 25 to 16 disparity.”The Hawkeyes were sent to the free-throw line on 27 different occasions where they were able to net 22 points. Iowa's star junior guard Caitlin Clark had, by far, the most free throws making 12-14, nearly as many as the 16-19 from the entire Michigan State team. It was a tough loss for the Spartans, especially after holding a former Big Ten Player of the Year like Clark to just six field goals on her 19 shots. Frustration was evident from the Spartan bench especially as things came down to the wire, and the crowd was right there with them getting riled up. “We've lost three overtime games and two of those we were just absolutely flat, disinterested, then decided to play late in Purdue and Wisconsin,” Merchant said. “Then, it's kind of too late. And then here, I thought our effort was good, but our efficiency wasn't great on the offensive end.”The Spartans will be looking to bounce back from their four-game losing skid at the Breslin Center at 3 p.m. Sunday afternoon against Rutgers.
(01/19/23 5:30pm)
Michigan State women’s basketball lost its fourth straight game against the No. 10 Hawkeyes in overtime after a solid defensive effort against a potent offense.
(01/19/23 3:14am)
Michigan State women’s basketball fell to the No. 10 Iowa Hawkeyes 84-81 Wednesday night after a hard-fought battle in overtime.
(01/19/23 2:30pm)
Michigan State men's basketball is looking to bounce back from back-to-back losses as the team welcomes the Rutgers Scarlet Knights to the Breslin Center Thursday.
(01/19/23 6:00pm)
Ingham County’s largest lake, Lake Lansing, is just a 13-minute drive from Munn Ice Arena. If you’re there over the summer or when the spring semester ends, there’s an off-chance you’ll run into a towering 6-foot-6 20-year-old. And no, it’s not a member of Michigan State’s basketball team, nor an offensive lineman on the football team.
(01/18/23 2:30pm)
After losing its third game in a row, Michigan State women’s basketball (10-8, 2-5) will attempt to break that streak against arguably the best player in the country in Caitlin Clark and the No. 10 Iowa Hawkeyes (14-4, 6-1).
(01/17/23 11:19pm)
Following a 64-63 defeat to No. 3 Purdue in East Lansing Monday,Head Coach Tom Izzo met with the media to discuss the loss as well as the upcoming game versus Rutgers.
(01/16/23 10:29pm)
After dropping the game to Illinois 75-66 on the road Friday night, Michigan State men’s basketball returned to the Breslin Center on Monday afternoon for their most grueling conference game yet.
(01/16/23 7:18pm)
Michigan State has moved up two spots to No. 15 in this week’s USCHO Poll after erasing two-goal deficits on Friday and Saturday to take four points from Penn State in the Big Ten standings.
(01/15/23 4:00pm)
When Adam Nightingale took over as Michigan State’s head coach in early May, he didn’t do too much analysis of senior forward Jagger Joshua. After all, he was a holdover from the previous regime, one that scored just eight goals in three seasons and far too often made more of an impact in the penalty box than he did on the scoresheet.
(01/15/23 3:31am)
Michigan State hockey put on another gritty, come-from-behind performance to tie No. 5 Penn State 4-4 on Saturday.
(01/15/23 1:30pm)
Michigan State women’s basketball was unable to pull off the upset against the No. 17 Michigan Wolverines on the road Saturday afternoon. Despite a string of losses, the Spartans have proven to be efficient in forcing turnovers on their opponents while keeping their own to a minimum throughout the entire season.Michigan State went into its rivalry game ranked 11th in the nation in forced turnovers—averaging 22.06 per game—but it was turnovers that uncharacteristically plagued MSU in their third consecutive loss. In just the first quarter of the game, the Spartans turned over the ball nine times. They had almost as many turnovers in the first as they had in the entirety of their narrow loss to Wisconsin at home on Wednesday night where they had just 10.The Michigan defense was scrappy in the paint and came ready to take on Michigan State. Those plays under the net greatly contributed to the eight travel turnovers committed by the Spartans. “We had too many turnovers in the first half, which I thought contributed to some frustration too,” Head Coach Suzy Merchant said. “A lot of 'em came from the four or five spot… They don't handle the ball enough to turn up a lot of travels in those situations.” Despite Michigan State’s high forced turnover average, the Wolverines only turned over the ball 13 times—well below their 16.6 average per game. On the other side of the court, the green and white gave up 22 points on their 22 turnovers, allowing Michigan to run off with the lead and ultimately the game. The Spartans struggled not only in forcing turnovers, but also just defensively in general.“I was just disappointed a little bit in our execution defensively at times with some of the things that we were doing and what we were trying to exploit and or take away,” Merchant said. Although Merchant said that some of the team's turnovers were in instances they should have controlled, the veteran coach said she does not believe her team has a turnover problem going forward. “We don't normally do that,” Merchant said. “I mean, we take care of the ball pretty well. We're not a team that turns it over like that.” The Spartans will be looking to bounce back from a string of tough losses as they travel back home to the Breslin Center for a Big Ten matchup against No. 12 Iowa on Wednesday at 7 p.m. The game will also be streaming on BTN+.
(01/15/23 2:00pm)
Around two weeks ago, it seemed that Michigan State women's basketball turned a corner.
(01/14/23 10:46pm)
Michigan State wrestling suffered its first defeat of the season Friday night against Michigan at a sold out Jenison Fieldhouse. The Spartans lost by a final score of 25-10.