It might be early on in the season, but the No. 21 MSU men’s basketball team already is seeking to bounce back after falling to UConn, 62-66, in the Armed Forces Classic.
For junior guard Klarissa Bell and the MSU women’s basketball team, the one thing they wish they had more of was time, but that is the precise thing working against them.
Starting yet another season in an unfamiliar locale, the MSU men’s basketball team suffered a gut-wrenching result to kick off its 2012-13 campaign. After being defeated in the first outdoor college basketball game on an aircraft carrier a season ago, the No. 14 Spartans didn’t have much better luck on Friday, falling to Connecticut, or UConn, 66-62 in the Sears Armed Forces Classic at the U.S. Air Force Base in Ramstein, Germany.
Every team needs a good leader, and in the case of the MSU women’s basketball team, the players still are trying to find who that person will be for them. In MSU’s season-opening 83-39 trouncing of UT Arlington on Sunday afternoon, two players stood out as potential candidates to fill the leadership void. Junior guard Klarissa Bell led the team in points (19), rebounds (8) and assists (6), and junior forward Annalise Pickrel also had a strong game, recording 18 points along with hitting four of her seven 3-pointers.
The MSU women’s basketball team started its season on the right foot, as it used slick shooting from the field to drub UT Arlington, 83-39.
Five Spartans scored in double figures as the MSU women’s basketball rolled over UT Arlington 83-39 in their first regular season game of the season.
A season after playing the first outdoor college basketball game on an aircraft carrier, the No. 14 MSU men’s basketball team kicked off its 2012-13 campaign inside Hanger 5 at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany.
As a tough week for the MSU women’s basketball team comes to an end, the team looks forward to getting some continuity as they head into the first game of the season against UT-Arlington at 2 p.m. on Sunday at Breslin Center.
Keith Appling is in rare company. Being a point guard in the MSU basketball program, the names of his predecessors read like a Mount Rushmore of achievement, forever carved into the MSU Athletics Hall of Fame.
When MSU women’s basketball head coach Suzy Merchant cast her vote on Tuesday morning, she encountered a broken ballot machine — a good representation of the week the Spartans had.
There are times when Tom Izzo wonders what MSU athletics director Mark Hollis has gotten him into. Traveling more than 4,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean to open the No. 14 MSU men’s basketball season in Germany was one of those times.
For the past two years, sophomore center Madison Williams has been the biggest cheerleader for the MSU women’s basketball team during the game against Grand Valley State on Sunday afternoon, she was back at it again.
As it is, Branden Dawson has plenty of challenges heading into his second year with the MSU men’s basketball team. Coming off a major tear of his left anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, in March, along with the continued process of maturing his game to become one of the leaders for head coach Tom Izzo’s squad, the sophomore has plenty on his mind moving into the team’s first regular-season game against Connecticut.
It was an offensive explosion for the MSU women’s basketball team as it trounced Grand Valley State 83-36 in its final exhibition game of the season.
As soon as she heard the question, asking to sum up a week that saw two of her top players lost for the season with major injuries, Suzy Merchant sighed, closed her eyes and shook her head. “It was a rough week. It was probably the roughest week I’ve had in a long time,” Merchant said.
The MSU women’s basketball team never trailed, as they rolled over Grand Valley State, 83-36 in their final exhibition game.
After a week of injuries and lineup uncertainty the MSU women’s basketball team is looking to find cohesion in its exhibition finale Sunday afternoon. It was all MSU in the first half, with the Spartans dominating Grand Valley State from start to finish, leading 43-16 at halftime.
When Tom Izzo looked into the stands Friday night he saw something unusual: his mother wearing a sweatshirt with the opposing team’s colors.
It wasn’t pretty, but the MSU men’s basketball team closed out its exhibition season by knocking off St. Cloud State 62-49 in a lackluster game Friday night at Breslin Center.
St. Cloud State stuck around for much of the first half after hitting four 3-pointers, but the MSU men’s basketball team pulled ahead by as much as 11 to lead the Huskies 33-26 at halftime of the team’s final exhibition game.