With its NCAA Tournament hopes on the line, the No. 10 MSU hockey team was controlled by Michigan for the second straight game as the Wolverines defeated the Spartans, 5-3, on Saturday at Munn Ice Arena. The win gave U-M the series victory in the CCHA quarterfinal matchup and likely ends the Spartans’ season, barring an unforeseen at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament.
The Spartans’ most dynamic offensive threat came out of the tunnel after warm-ups and skated for about 30 seconds in front of the MSU bench before heading back into the locker room. An MSU athletics communications official said Tropp stepped on a puck during warm-ups.
Indianapolis – The same group of upperclassmen, captains and leaders who put the MSU men’s basketball team on their back Friday against Minnesota were the same ones that clanked late free throws and ran out of gas down the stretch in the Spartans’ 72-67 loss.
Indianapolis — Two pairs of missed free throws in overtime and clutch shooting from Minnesota hurt the MSU men’s basketball team Friday night as the Spartans lost, 72-67, to the Golden Gophers at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. The Spartans’ quarterfinal loss in the Big Ten Tournament means they will be off until the start of the NCAA Tournament next week.
Home ice advantage, tournament seedings and season records were put aside Friday night at Munn Ice Arena as the Michigan Wolverines gave MSU an old-fashioned whooping, routing MSU 5-1 in the quarterfinals of the CCHA Tournament. The Spartans likely will need to win the final two games of the best-of-three series to receive an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Indianapolis — With a dominating 76-55 win Thursday against No. 11 seed Penn State in the first round of the men’s Big Ten Tournament at Conseco Fieldhouse, the No. 6 seed Minnesota Golden Gophers advance to face MSU, which defeated Minnesota twice already this year and had a first-round bye. Minnesota and MSU are scheduled to tip-off at 9 p.m. Friday.
The East Lansing Planning Commission approved a request Wednesday to convert Lambda Chi Alpha’s house into an apartment complex. Members of the MSU chapter of the fraternity said they plan to continue fighting the proposal and make their case to East Lansing City Council.
MSU junior guard Kalin Lucas was selected to the All-Big Ten first team and sophomore guard Draymond Green was a unanimous selection for the conference’s Sixth Man of the Year, the conference announced Monday night.
In all the excitement and success the MSU men’s basketball program has been subjected to in the past decade, one particular accolade has been missing: a Big Ten Tournament championship.
MSU wide receivers B.J. Cunningham and Mark Dell and former MSU running back Ashton Leggett were sentenced to 18 months of probation and 150 hours of community service last week on charges of assault and battery in East Lansing’s 54-B District Court. The charges stem from a November 2009 dormitory brawl in Rather Hall where members of the MSU football team allegedly attacked members of the Iota Phi Theta fraternity.
As the banner commemorating the MSU men’s basketball team’s secondstraight Big Ten title and sixth during head coach Tom Izzo’s Hall of Fame career ascended to the ceiling, the Spartan Brass proudly played MSU Shadows, the university’s alma mater. The only tune more appropriate would have been the rock ballad from Bachman-Turner Overdrive: Takin’ Care of Business.
In his final game at Breslin Center on Sunday, senior forward Raymar Morgan scored a season-high 22 points, grabbed 10 rebounds, kissed the ‘S’ at midcourt and watched a Big Ten Championship banner raise to the rafters in front of Spartan legends Mateen Cleaves and Charlie Bell as the MSU men’s basketball team throttled archrival Michigan, 64-48.
Indianapolis — In her team’s biggest game of the season, Aisha Jefferson delivered. Her teammates, though, were notably absent.
Indianapolis — Iowa, the only team to beat the MSU women’s basketball team during its run to end the regular season, did so again Saturday, knocking the Spartans out of the Big Ten Tournament with a 59-54 win at Conseco Fieldhouse.
With just one regular season game remaining, MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo seems to have had it. Following his team’s two-point victory over conference bottomfeeder Penn State on Thursday, Izzo said he was going to change the way his team practices and subsequently could make dramatic changes to the lineup. “We’ve fought it all year and we’re going to fight it another game only we’re going to maybe fight it in a different way,” Izzo said.
Indianapolis — The MSU women’s basketball team found a way to win without Allyssa DeHaan, who left Friday’s Big Ten Tournament quarterfinal game with Michigan midway through the first half with back spasms.
The MSU women’s basketball team advanced to the Big Ten Tournament semifinals with a 61-50 win against Michigan on Friday afternoon at Conseco Fieldhouse.
An MSU student reported his basketball shoes stolen from Breslin Center between Sunday and Monday. The shoes are valued at $300.
The Lansing community welcomes refugees to the area and resettlement organizations in the area coordinate support. Lansing has become one of the several areas designated for refugee resettlement since the 1970s. Refugees are given a fresh start and are helped in the transition to their new homes.
The MSU men’s basketball team beat Penn State 67-65 Thursday. This win put the Spartans a step closer to consecutive Big Ten titles and kept them from their first home three-game losing streak since 1997.