Wednesday, January 14, 2026

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Sports

BASKETBALL

Breakdown

Since the disappointing road loss to Iowa, the MSU men’s basketball team has regained its confidence away from home, defeating Minnesota and Northwestern. This weekend, MSU travels to Happy Valley to take on Penn State.

BASKETBALL

Stats easily put 2007 squad ahead of 2000

The MSU men’s basketball team is 19-2 — a feat no other Spartans basketball team has accomplished in all 109 years of the program’s history. How’s that for leaving your mark at this university?

ICE HOCKEY

Frozen in time

What looks like fallen pocket change to the average Joe could spell luck for MSU assistant hockey coach Tom Newton, who said that discarded pennies and nickels are his turned-up horseshoes.

BASKETBALL

Around the Big Ten: Iowa jumps from bottom to top

Iowa head coach Lisa Bluder understands how the struggling MSU women’s basketball team feels during the first few weeks of the Big Ten regular season. The Spartans, through Wednesday, currently sit in eighth place in the Big Ten with a record of 4-6 and are in the bottom of the standings just like the Hawkeyes were a little more than two weeks ago.

SPORTS

Prognosticators

The prognosticators are at it again! Here they are, prognosticating their way into the hearts of sports fans everywhere!

BASKETBALL

Spartans off to best start ever

It ain’t easy being the best. In order to achieve the best 21-game start of any MSU men’s basketball team in 109 years, the Spartans had to fight through a determined Illinois squad Wednesday night at Breslin Center.