Iowa City, Iowa – MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo has repeated this season that his team might not be ready to compete on the road in the Big Ten.
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Junior guard Mia Johnson has returned to the hardwood and is ready to do what it takes to bring the MSU women’s basketball team back into the win column.
As a senior at Braham Area High School in Braham, Minn., Isaiah Dahlman averaged 33.6 points per game and finished with a career total of 3,366 points. Last year, Dahlman played in 26 games for the MSU men’s basketball team, logging 403 minutes and scoring 96 points all season.
The men’s basketball team travels to Iowa City to take on the Hawkeyes at 8:35 p.m. Saturday at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
To mimic the Detroit Pistons, the Spartans will start “going to work.” The MSU women’s basketball team plans on doing just that against Iowa tonight.
When Travis Walton drained the 16-foot jump shot from the baseline with fewer than 19 seconds remaining Tuesday night against Purdue to seal a victory, Breslin Center exploded with electricity.
If the MSU women’s basketball team plans on stepping it up when it comes to game time, it needs to practice harder first.
In trying to get the most out of his super sophomore slasher Raymar Morgan, MSU men’s head basketball coach Tom Izzo didn’t seek counsel from his assistant coaches or players.
From the football bowl game to Big Ten openers, here’s what you missed in Spartan sports during break.
The MSU women’s basketball team will need to step it up after a disappointing start in Big Ten play.
Welcome to the Big Ten. That’s the message MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo delivered to his team during Saturday’s 65-59 win against Minnesota. “Although we outrebounded them by 20, they took it to us physically,” Izzo said.
After winning its last five Big Ten openers, the No. 23 MSU women’s basketball team dropped this season’s Big Ten opener to Minnesota 74-63, Saturday.
The No. 23 MSU women’s basketball team suffered another road loss. In a battle until the end, Hartford (10-2) clinched the 54-51 win in a second-half comeback thanks to its 17 points off of the 15 Spartan turnovers and Hawks forward Danielle Hood’s 19 points and eight rebounds.
Who remembers 2003? I bet Tom Izzo does. That was the year in which the MSU men’s basketball team faced off against Kansas, DePaul, Duke, Oklahoma, Kentucky, UCLA and Syracuse before the Spartans faced a single Big Ten opponent.
The MSU men’s basketball team’s freshmen might not fly across the lane for NBA Jam-like dunks, dribble through defenders’ legs or consistently make ESPN’s Top Ten plays — but even without those attributes, they are living up to the hype.
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MSU women’s basketball head coach Suzy Merchant still thinks her team is a “work in progress.”
“A basketball-crazy community.” Those were the words MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo used to describe Peoria, Ill. — the city to which No. 9 MSU travels today to face off against the Bradley Braves (6-2).