The highly-touted high school basketball prospect Miles Bridges has made his decision. Bridges, the ESPN 100 eighth ranked player in the class of 2016, will become a MSU Spartan. [ tweet ] Bridges, listed on ESPN at 6-foot-6, 225 pounds, is a scout-rated five star recruit who played his high school basketball in West Virginia at Huntington Prep.
MSU head basketball coach Tom Izzo talked to the media on Friday and intends to take the program to the next level.
Men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo announced sophomore guard Lourawls ‘Tum Tum’ Nairn Jr., senior forward Matt Costello and senior guard Denzel Valentine as the 2015-16 team captains today. Izzo said each year the captains are selected in a different fashion, but this year the players voted. “It was voted on this time, you know every year I do it a little differently to be honest with you, and they all got a lot of votes but you know (Valentine) got every vote on the team.
MSU basketball forward Kenny Goins has undergone a successful sports hernia surgery and is expected to be out of action for six weeks, the team announced Wednesday. Goins is coming into this season on scholarship after being redshirted as a preferred walk-on last year. Preseason practices for the Spartans begin this Friday, and they begin their season Nov.
CBS Sports recently crowned MSU as having the top head coaching duo in basketball and football with Tom Izzo and Mark Dantonio. The title is hard to argue against, given the amount of growth and accomplishment each program has had the last eight seasons – when Dantonio took the reigns of the football program. It is nearly impossible to refute Izzo’s resume as being one of the top coaches in college basketball.
Besides the annual kickoff to football season there is another annual fall tradition amongst MSU students; the opportunity to purchase tickets to the Izzone.
MSU basketball will be without sophomore forward Marvin Clark Jr. for 6-8 weeks due to a foot injury, according to Spartan Athletics.
Draymond Green had a homecoming this past weekend at MSU. After announcing on Thursday he donated $3.1 million to the men's basketball program to fund several Breslin Center renovations, he made a guest appearance on ESPN's College GameDay and a cameo during MSU football's 31-28 victory against Oregon.
Former MSU forward Draymond Green wanted to give back to the place that made him the player he is today.
Former MSU guard Travis Trice has signed a partially-guaranteed one-year deal with the New York Knicks, Yahoo reported on Thursday.
Sophomore guard Lourawls “Tum Tum” Nairn is the natural pick to fill much of the void left by Travis Trice , last season’s senior point guard and NCAA Tournament hero.
The men's basketball team recently returned from a three-game tournament in Italy this past weekend.
Both MSU basketball teams made changes to their staff on Thursday, according to msuspartans.com. Men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo announced that former MSU basketball player David Thomas has been named as the new men’s Director of Basketball Operations while Merchant announced Alysiah Bond will fill Thomas' void as the Women’s Director of Basketball Operations and Technology. “David Thomas is a great addition to our staff as Director of Basketball Operations.
The upcoming schedule for men’s basketball in the Big Ten has been released. The Spartans will travel to Ann Arbor for a lone matchup with our interstate rival and the highly touted Maryland Terrapins will make a trip to East Lansing in the slate’s only matchup, according to a Spartan Athletics release.
The MSU men’s basketball non-conference schedule has been announced and includes two home games against the University of Louisville and the University of Florida, according to a Spartan Athletics release.
In a recent article on USA Today, Coaches and Coming Out, men's basketball head coach Tom Izzo made his stance on having gay players clear.
The Los Angeles Clippers announced today that they have officially signed Rookie forward Branden Dawson, the details of the contact have not been announced. Never will I ever forget this day!
As the Orlando summer league begins to heat up former MSU basketball players Branden Dawson and Travis Trice are trying to find their path in the NBA. Dawson, of course, is playing for the Los Angeles Clippers summer league team after he was taken with the No.
After accepting an invitation to the 2015 U.S. Pan American Men’s Basketball Team training camp, senior guard Denzel Valentine is one of 12 players who made the team, according to a news release by Spartan Athletics.
A day after news broke of the suspension of MSU junior guard Eron Harris due to a July 1 drunk driving arrest, the MSU basketball program received more bad news Wednesday, as news surfaced of junior guard Alvin Ellis’ May 2 charge of misdemeanor count of underage purchase, consumption or possession of alcohol surfaced. The charges were eventually dismissed and dropped to a public littering charge of $615, according to online records at 54B District Court in East Lansing. In addition to this, online records also indicate that a month later on June 19, Ellis was once again hit with a charge of underage purchase, consumption or possession of alcohol. "Being a student-athlete at Michigan State University is a privilege.