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MSU fans show up the Hawk's Nest in Iowa

When the Iowa faithful were starting to trickle into Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Saturday night, there was one section up in the nosebleeds that had been filled to capacity since two hours before the game began.

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Iowa implosion

It came down to which team could perform a little less poorly than the other. And on Saturday night, Iowa was that team. In the lowest scoring game of MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo’s career, the Spartans were upset by the Iowa Hawkeyes, 43-36, at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. When the buzzer hit 00.0, the Hawks Nest, Iowa’s student section, stormed the floor as “Overrated” echoed off the arena walls.

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Role reversal

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.

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Breakdown

The men’s basketball team travels to Iowa City to take on the Hawkeyes at 8:35 p.m. Saturday at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.

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Pump up the volume

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.

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Road woes continue for Spartans

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.