Throughout the preseason, the MSU men’s basketball team promised to return an up-tempo offense, and in the season opener against Chicago State they did just that – running by the Cougars, 86-53, Tuesday night at Breslin Center.
After a preseason in which the MSU men’s basketball team struggled against Division II opponents Grand Valley State and Michigan Tech, the Spartans look to get off to start the regular season on a high note against a Chicago State squad that gave them a run for their money early last season.
When the MSU men’s basketball team needed somebody to step up late in Wednesday’s exhibition game against Michigan Tech, junior center Goran Suton took charge and scored seven of his 15 points in the final four minutes to seal a 61-55 win for the Spartans.
Lauren Aitch knows how it feels to go through an ACL tear. The sophomore center lost all of last season after tearing her right ACL in preseason practice, so it’s only fitting that she’ll be there for junior forward Aisha Jefferson, who was lost for the season with an ACL tear of her own during the exhibition win over Lake Superior State.
During the off season the MSU basketball program completed a $1.3 million project to upgrade the home locker room and lounge. After Friday’s 85-82 double overtime exhibition loss to Grand Valley State, however, men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo gave players the boot from the state-of-the-art facility.
The MSU women’s basketball team has been stricken with yet another ACL tear.
The MSU women’s basketball team lost junior forward Aisha Jefferson for an undetermined amount of time with a right knee injury during Sunday’s 71-52 win over Lake Superior State at Breslin Center.
After the MSU men’s basketball team’s 85-82 double overtime loss to Division II Grand Valley State University, the No. 8 ranked Spartans sit at 0-0 on the season.
The MSU men’s basketball team expected a battle from a talented Grand Valley State team in its first exhibition game Friday night.
When the MSU men’s basketball team takes the court tonight for its first exhibition game of the season, it’s going to go up against a Grand Valley State University team that faces the same high expectations as themselves heading into the 2007 season.
Two teams with two new coaches will collide at 7 p.m. tonight at Breslin Center as the MSU women’s basketball team opens its exhibition season against Grand Valley State.
Last season, the MSU men’s basketball team averaged 65 points a game playing in a slow-tempo half-court offense. The Spartans were forced into the half-court system due to the lack of backcourt depth, which featured senior guard Drew Neitzel, junior guard Travis Walton, sophomore forward Raymar Morgan and not much else.
MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo and Indiana head coach Kelvin Sampson deflected the preseason hype toward each other, but when the votes were in, the Spartans were the media’s preseason pick to win the Big Ten.
New coach, same expectations. The MSU women’s basketball team was picked to finish second behind defending league champion Ohio State in the Big Ten preseason media poll, which was announced at Sunday’s Big Ten Media Day.
The MSU women’s basketball team has spent the last two seasons with makeshift point guards.
For the past year, freshman guards Chris Allen, Kalin Lucas and Durrell Summers have been lumped together as one of the best recruiting classes MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo has brought to East Lansing.
At this time last year the MSU men’s basketball team was in unfamiliar territory. With three stars gone to the NBA and only 30 percent of its offense returning, the Spartans were looking to find a leader and the preseason predictions were not high.
There were no ghoulish costumes, ceiling entrance, or camouflage on hand at Munn Ice Arena on Friday night — only 14 Spartan warriors entering their battlefield in anticipation for the official start of the college basketball season.
Growing up as a sports fan, I had a pretty fair idea that I wanted to become a sportswriter after I figured out that I didn’t possess a Reggie Miller-esqe jump shot. So, I opted to dream about joining the other side of the sports world, and thought I had a good gist of what it all involved.