While the MSU men’s basketball team is preparing for its first game of the season on the USS Carl Vinson, another group of Spartans will open its season on the court. The women’s basketball team will start its season off in the Iona Tournament, playing its first game against Villanova at 1:45 p.m.
The Spartans trounced Grand Valley State, 75-23, concluding their exhibition season and asserting their position as the team to beat in the Big Ten.
As the MSU men’s basketball team finished its exhibition season with two blowouts of Ferris State last Sunday and Hillsdale on friday, head coach Tom Izzo saw things he liked and things he didn’t like.
The warmups are over. Fans barely had started filing out of Breslin Center on Friday night following the MSU men’s basketball team’s 80-58 win over Hillsdale, and head coach Tom Izzo and the Spartans already had shifted gears.
Coming off one of the strongest seasons in program history that ended with a Big Ten championship, the expectations couldn’t be much higher for the MSU women’s basketball team in 2011-12. In the team’s first exhibition of the season, the No.
The Spartans took care of Ferris State 85-58 on Sunday and now take on a different-look Hillsdale team at 7 p.m. Friday at Breslin Center.
Through the first weeks of practice, one thing really stands out to MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo: his team’s unselfishness. But that unselfishness comes at a strange time, when most of the players haven’t played together all that long, Izzo said. “The neat thing is we’ve had years where we’re selfish — the ball never moved,” Izzo said.
The MSU men’s basketball team released photos of its special camouflage uniforms for the Nov. 11 Quicken Loans Carrier Classic.
Trying to put last season’s struggles it, the MSU men’s basketball team took the floor Sunday for the first time since March, when the Spartans dropped a 78-76 heartbreaker to UCLA in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. During an 85-58 trouncing of the Ferris State Bulldogs in an exhibition at Breslin Center on Sunday, the Spartans were able to get a feel for their team and fans were treated to a preview of what to expect come Nov.
With loads of inexperience, men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo will look for a lot more than usual in his team’s two exhibition games this season.
Men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo confirmed Tuesday that the team will wear a special uniform for the Nov. 11 Carrier Classic in San Diego.
MSU men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo confirmed to the Detroit Free Press on Tuesday that his team will wear a camouflage uniform for the Nov.
Although youth — the Spartans feature six freshman or redshirt freshman and three sophomores — might cause some problems this season, it isn’t likely complacency will be one of them.
Tom Izzo is rejuvenated and ready for the new season — so is his basketball team.
With basketball season not far off, Midnight Madness gave MSU fans their first look at the men’s and women’s basketball teams Friday.
Despite losing three captains to graduation, the Spartans aren’t worried about playing as the top dog this season.
After winning the Big Ten outright for the first time in program history, the Spartans are looking to continue that success with a much younger squad this season. Thursday afternoon, head coach Suzy Merchant and members of the team met with members of the media to discuss the team’s upcoming season.
Friday, the annual Midnight Madness will tip off the 2011-12 basketball season at Breslin Center. Doors will open at 9:30 p.m., and admission is free.
Tickets for the Izzone go on sale for students at 12:01 a.m. this Sunday. To purchase tickets, students must visit the Spartan ticket office on msuspartans.com.
The MSU men’s basketball team will be featured in national broadcasts in as many of 10 of their 18 Big Ten games during the 2011-12 season. The Big Ten announced Tuesday the conference games will appear on either CBS, ESPN or ESPN2.