After being absent from the starting lineup for the first time this season, Becca Mills and Annalise Pickrel made their presence felt off the bench for the Spartans against No. 15 Purdue on Sunday.
The No. 13 MSU men’s basketball team (17-4 overall, 6-2 Big Ten) was unable to pull off the upset in Bloomington, Ind. Sunday afternoon, falling to No. 7 Indiana (18-2, 6-1), 75-70, before a capacity crowd at Assembly Hall.
The boos echoed throughout Assembly Hall every time he touched the ball. The chants rained down as he stood at the free throw line for the first time, less than two minutes into the game.
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After Friday night’s victory, the MSU hockey team finally was gaining a bit of confidence back to a struggling season. Saturday night, that confidence was taken right back with a 3-2 win by Penn State) over the Spartans (7-16-3 overall, 5-12-1-0 CCHA). MSU carried over its offense from Friday’s 5-3 victory into Saturday’s first period, and it was Spartan defenseman who got MSU on the board. Sophomore RJ Boyd and senior Matt Grassi netted two very similar goals about two and a half minutes apart in the first frame. Both took slapshots that made their way into the net above Penn State goaltender Matthew Skoff’s glove hand — Boyd from the left point and Grassi from the right. That goal was Grassi’s first of the season. “It was nice,” Grassi said.
Penn State hockey got the better of MSU on Saturday night when the Nittany Lions overtook the Spartans, 3-2.
In a preview of future Big Ten play, MSU and Penn State hockey took the ice for the first time against each other, in which MSU came out on top, 5-3.
Ted Gill has worked as a defensive football coach for nearly 40 years, but Friday it was announced that his time at MSU has come to a close.
At Friday morning’s Board of Trustees meeting, a number of on-campus construction plans and projects were approved by the board, including moving and rebuilding the on-campus fuel station, furthering construction plans to residence halls and renovating Munn Ice Arena.
At MSU, the overflow of research almost is seductive. The university attracts expert researchers from across the world, prides itself on having many unearthed scientific discoveries and budgeted more than $500 million for research in the 2011-12 academic year.
Although seeing an officer show up to a late-night party can be scary, experts said there are basic rights students have when dealing with police.
Growing up in a military family, Army ROTC Cadet Wendy Santiago said the military was in her blood.
Kiana Johnson did her best to carry the No. 25 MSU women’s basketball team to a win in its first-ever trip to Nebraska tonight. In their first game as a ranked team since the end of 2011, the Spartans fell to Nebraska 59-54.
ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, voted in support of a fitness plan fee included in students’ tuition, with an opt-out option, at its general assembly meeting Thursday night.
After Charlie Nguyen lost his job at General Motors Corp., or GM, he found the cure for his unemployment — manicures and pedicures. Nguyen, who worked for GM for 30 years, was asked to take an early retirement. Work was hard to come by in the passing months and his children’s college funds were dwindling, so Nguyen began nail technician classes with his wife.
Iranian native Iman Barjasteh said if he wanted to make it big in electrical and computer engineering, he had to come to the U.S. “Usually in these countries like America, you can find good opportunities to stay there and get a job,” he said. Barjasteh, a graduate student, said he plans to use his student visa to stay in the U.S.
Fantasy football and plenty of laughs will be on tab for MSU students this weekend, courtesy of the Residence Halls Association or RHA, and FX’s “The League Live.” RHA booked FX’s “The League Live” to come at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the Cobb Great Hall at Wharton Center. Tickets for the event went on sale Friday, Jan. 18, with student tickets going for $17 and $27 for non-students. Students are limited to two tickets per MSU ID. Tickets were still available for purchase as of Thursday night and also will be available for purchase at the door, if the event does not sell out, RHA Director of Public Relations Abigail Bhattacharyya said.
Many campus construction projects top the list to be discussed and voted upon by the Board of Trustees at its 9:30 a.m. Friday meeting in the boardroom at the Administration Building.
With first place in the conference on the line, the Spartans’ trip to Assembly Hall could be the team’s biggest challenge of the young conference season.
As the MSU hockey program prepares for its first-ever meeting with Penn State this weekend, Jake Hildebrand has more personal matters on his mind. The freshman goaltender for the Spartans (6-15-3 overall, 5-12-1-0 CCHA) will take the crease opposite Matthew Skoff, a Penn State (9-12-0) goaltender and close friend of Hildebrand’s.