NEW YORK — After their Big Ten Tournament semifinal loss to Michigan Saturday, the second-ranked Spartans will have at least a 12-day layoff before they can take the hardwood again, as the team’s earliest scheduled NCAA Tournament opening game is March 15.
NEW YORK — Watch men's basketball players react to its 75-64 loss to Michigan in the Big Ten Tournament semifinals Saturday.
NEW YORK — Men's basketball was playing its instate rival, Michigan. They had won 13 straight games, their last loss coming to the Wolverines on Jan. 13. They wanted redemption, but came up short in Madison Square Garden, the “mecca of basketball.”
NEW YORK — The Wolverines would pull away in the second half and beat the Spartans, 75-64, to advance to the Big Ten Tournament finals.
NEW YORK — No. 2 men’s basketball (29-3, 16-2 Big Ten) didn’t get a chance in the regular season to avenge it’s January loss to Michigan. But on Saturday they will.
NEW YORK — "Cassius was unbelievable the first half. Miles played really well the second half. And those guys brought us back in it," head coach Tom Izzo said.
NEW YORK — If you only looked at the numbers, you probably would have predicted men's basketball would beat the Badgers with relative ease in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Tournament Friday.
NEW YORK — Watch men's basketball players react to their 63-60 win over Wisconsin in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Tournament.
NEW YORK — The men’s basketball team defeated Wisconsin in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Tournament, 63-60, in front of a heavily MSU-supported crowd at MSG on Friday afternoon.
"I'm almost just laser focused," freshman forward Jaren Jackson Jr. said after practice Wednesday.
Even with turnover issues, MSU is still one of the best teams in the nation statistically. However, the Spartans over the past month have been consistently ranked lower than a No. 2 seed in recent projected brackets for the NCAA Tournament.
Watch head coach Tom Izzo, sophomore guard Cassius Winston and freshman forward Jaren Jackson Jr. preview the Big Ten Tournament in New York City.
In the wake of the NCAA investigation involving the men’s basketball team, head coach Tom Izzo said at Wednesday’s practice the team will no longer be answering questions unrelated to basketball.
Sophomores standouts Miles Bridges and Cassius Winston, along with freshman Jaren Jackson Jr. were selected to the Big Ten men's basketball All-Conference teams that were announced late Monday.
An internal investigation by the university found members of Bridges’ family had dinner with an agent, which violated NCAA rules.
For the third straight week men's basketball comes in at No. 2 in the Associated Press Top-25 Poll that was released Monday.
State News men's basketball reporter Casey Harrison gives his thoughts after MSU’s 68-63 win against Wisconsin at Kohl Center.
Head coach Tom Izzo said there "was one major issue with the $400" Cynthia allegedly received from Dawkins that MSU and the NCAA "found to be completely not true, as we know now."
No. 2 MSU (28-3, 16-2 Big Ten) defeated Wisconsin (14-17, 7-11), 68-63, in the team’s regular season closer at the Kohl Center.
The No. 2 men’s basketball team will have a chance to win the Big Ten title outright for the first time since 2009 when the team travels to play the Badgers in the last regular season game Sunday.