The MSU women’s basketball team announced that sophomore forward Courtney Schiffauer will miss the remainder of the season after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee Tuesday.
Centerman Lee Reimer (Landmark, Manitoba) and goaltender Willie Yanakeff (Jerome, Mich.) signed letters of intent Wednesday to join MSU for the team’s 2010 campaign.
The treacherous month of November rolls on for the No. 6 MSU hockey team. The Spartans will host No. 14 Notre Dame tonight and travel to Fort Wayne, Ind., on Sunday to face the Irish in a neutral barn, marking the third straight series for the Spartans against a team ranked in the top 15.
The MSU wrestling program announced Wednesday that six student-athletes signed National Letters of Intent to wrestle for the Spartans in the 2010-11 season.
The Spartans welcome Penn State to Spartan Stadium on Saturday (3:30 p.m., ABC) in a game that has major bowl implications. The outcome of the game will affect almost every bowl-eligible Big Ten team.
It’s easy to be friends on the ice. It’s the players’ jobs to work together, communicate and stick up for each other.
Junior guard Durrell Summers hit the go-ahead 3-pointer to become the hero. In the waning minutes of the game, junior guard Kalin Lucas stepped up and made an acrobatic layup to extend the lead.
Despite taking No. 14 Michigan to five sets Wednesday, the MSU volleyball team fell short against its in-state rivals, 3-2.
Despite the season only being two games old, the No. 21 MSU women’s basketball team already has seen its fair share of adversity.
It seemed like it wasn’t meant to be. Every time the No. 2 MSU men’s basketball team tied Gonzaga — or even pulled within a few points — the Bulldogs kept the Spartans nipping at their heels. Then, after all the ties (three), one-point deficits (five) and two-point deficits (four), Durrell Summers took the game into his own hands.
It’s one thing to sneak into the NCAA Tournament. But it’s completely different to receive a first-round bye and play a home game in the second round.
Of all the players who have made big plays for the Spartans in 2009, sophomore receiver Keshawn Martin is at the top of the list.
If you told players on the MSU hockey team at the beginning of the season they would be the No. 6 ranked team in the country in the middle of November, they wouldn’t have believed you.
The MSU men’s soccer team is in.On Monday night, the Spartans received a No. 14 seed in the NCAA Tournament, earning a first-round bye and a home game in the second round of the tournament.
Senior kicker Brett Swenson was named Big Ten Special Teams Player of the Week on Monday after his career-best performance in MSU’s 40-37 victory against Purdue on Saturday.
Hoping to improve its final standing in the Big Ten, the MSU volleyball team embarks on an important four-game stretch to close out the regular season, beginning with a match Wednesday at No. 14 Michigan.
After sweeping Michigan last weekend, the MSU hockey team jumped seven spots in the USCHO rankings, currently sitting at No. 6 in the national polls released Monday.
Draymond Green recently was watching ESPN when the network started showing the greatest college basketball games involving mid-major schools
When game times for this weekend’s Big Ten games were announced, a friend of mine, who happens to be a Michigan fan, texted me, “Michigan-Ohio State at noon on ABC. Great, now the whole nation can laugh at us again.”
In a season full of unusual games and strange twists and turns, Saturday’s 40-37 win against Purdue added to the oddity that is the 2009 MSU football season.