As Tom Izzo readies to attempt another deep NCAA Tournament run, the praise of the MSU men’s basketball head coach’s March success is coming out yet again.
College Park, MD — One and done. The mantra of the NCAA Tournament is as old as March Madness itself, but the finality of the phrase hit Taylor Alton and the rest of the senior class especially hard on Saturday.
Draymond Green became just the third player in history to record multiple triple-doubles in the NCAA Tournament, according to the Big Ten Network, joining Earvin “Magic” Johnson and Oscar Robertson. Friday also marks the third triple-double of Green’s career and his first this season.
For possibly the first time all season, the men’s basketball team’s center duo of Derrick Nix and Adreian Payne were on in the same game in Friday’s 89-67 win against LIU Brooklyn.
On Friday evening, the Coalition of Indian Undergraduate Students invited MSU students, friends and families to Satrang 2012: Afansa at the Auditorium.
Columbus, Ohio — The No. 1-seed MSU men’s basketball team ran away with its first game of the 2012 NCAA Tournament against No. 16-seed LIU Brooklyn, 89-67..
Columbus, Ohio — The home of Ohio State is almost painted green this week. With St. Patrick’s Day weekend and the MSU men’s basketball team in town for the NCAA Tournament, seemingly everyone has a touch of green to their outfits.
A 22-year-old female student reported her Apple Macbook was stolen at about 5:30 p.m. March 12 from Berkey Hall, MSU police Sgt.
The 15 houses that make up the web of the Student Housing Cooperative are undergoing an examination of their most fundamental ideologies, which has gone largely unnoticed by some of the MSU community.
Tom Izzo enters his 15th-straight NCAA Tournament with a No. 1-seed MSU men’s basketball team for the fourth time in his career.
Columbus, Ohio — For the second straight year, the LIU Brooklyn men’s basketball team enters the NCAA Tournament as an underdog facing high-ranked teams.
In high school, while sitting in foods class, MSU alumna Lauren Long found out about an opening at a bridal salon called the Wedding Bell. She jumped at the chance to take the job, and she’s been consulting brides ever since. “It’s always a happy time for people, and I think that feeling is contagious,” said Long, an Okemos resident.
ASMSU passed a bill Thursday night in support of extending the Main Library’s hours during the weekends to allow students more study time.
The East Lansing City Council is again discussing potential budget issues that could cut police and fire services, which might hurt the departments’ ability to deal with large events, such as future March Madness celebrations. During their Tuesday night work session at City Hall, 410 Abbot Road, council members discussed removing eight full-time police positions, including five patrol officers, two detectives and one school officer to maintain a lower budget in the 2013-14 fiscal year.
In his spare time, Kirk Goldsberry is trying to innovate the way people think about basketball shooting.
A new smartphone application named Capsule is getting some attention among young adults because of its innovative way of party planning and sharing. The app launched Jan. 19 and provides users with a way to invite specific friends to an event without having it publicly displayed on Facebook or other social media sites. A specific phone number and email address is selected for the Capsule group so personal information can be anonymous.
Police forces in the city will be out in higher numbers this weekend in anticipation of warmer weather, basketball and St. Patrick’s Day celebrations.
Rather than spending St. Patrick’s Day covering her surroundings in green and shamrocks, political science and pre-law junior Bridget Sheehan grew up viewing the holiday as a time for church and to celebrate with family over a home-cooked meal of shepherd’s pie and corned beef and cabbage.
Inquisitive audience members will have the chance to help debunk myths with two of TV’s most well-known scientific sleuths this weekend. Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, co-hosts of the Discovery Channel series “MythBusters,” a program in which science and experimentation are used to prove or disprove urban myths, will bring their live show, “MythBusters: Behind the Myths” to Wharton Center and allow fans to join them as investigators for a day. The show will take place at 3 p.m.
It is almost the weekend. Classes are ending and students are ready to unwind. Here is a roundup of events to attend during the weekend respite. Dia de la Mujer Let’s get the more serious one out of the way first.