Senior guard Travis Walton said the MSU men’s basketball team is going to go inside against Connecticut and its 7-foot-3 center Hasheem Thabeet. Sophomore guard Kalin Lucas, however, said the Spartans can’t go to the basket because of the risk of getting blocked by Thabeet.
During his sophomore year, Travis Walton was sitting at a barbershop when he overheard a man talking about God. “Do you really believe that?” Walton asked the stranger. He replied that he did. The man was Jesse Brown, a pastor at Rivers of Life Church, 2495 N. Cedar St., in Lansing. His message struck Walton, now a senior guard on the MSU men’s basketball team. Interested and intrigued by Brown and his beliefs, Walton began going to Rivers of Life regularly — although only after his grandmother met and approved of Brown.
As the men’s basketball team continues to string victories together, fans are pouring cash into East Lansing’s bars and retail stores. East Lansing officials said they’re expecting MSU’s participation in this weekend’s Final Four to bring a significant economic boost to the area.
Michigan residents looking to use marijuana for medical purposes might have to look a little harder than they would like. Medical marijuana officially becomes legal Saturday, but the law is hazy on how patients can obtain the marijuana, said Greg Francisco, executive director of the Michigan Medical Marijuana Association.
For MSU group Active Peace, a movie hopefully will be the first step toward creating global peace. The group presented a screening of the film “The Day After Peace” on Thursday in Erickson Hall.
North Carolina has been the favorite to be here all season. Villanova is a surprise. Regardless, both teams have 40 minutes of basketball to make it to the national championship game and play for the title. The No. 1 seed Tar Heels (32-4) are led by a group of determined seniors while the No. 3 seed Wildcats (30-7) feature some fantastic guard play that has allowed them to reach the Final Four.
A few years ago, MSU men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo was sitting in his office at the Alfred Berkowitz Basketball Complex. Across from Izzo was Kalin Lucas, an ultra-fast high school guard, and Lucas’ parents, Kenneth and Tina.
When it comes to defending North Carolina, predicating your offense around stopping one player is like picking which type of poison you want for dessert. The Tar Heels have as many scoring options as they have players on their roster, with at least four of those players bound for the NBA after this season.
Last season, forward Tyler Hansbrough, guard Ty Lawson, guard Wayne Ellington and forward Danny Green all could have been high NBA draft picks if they left school early. Instead, they came back to North Carolina for a chance at a second-straight Final Four and their first national championship.
It’s been a long road for Connecticut to get to the Final Four, but it’s been even longer for Stanley Robinson. The sophomore forward was suspended for the fall semester by UConn coach Jim Calhoun. So instead of playing basketball, he spent the first part of the basketball season working at a metal plant.
Of the four teams left in the field, the MSU men’s basketball team has arguably the least NBA talent on its roster. On Thursday, senior guard Travis Walton was asked if he was concerned his team’s lack of star talent hurts its chances.
The MSU men’s basketball team has learned a valuable lesson this week: When you’re on top of the college basketball world, everyone wants something from you. Even a Wolverine.
When the MSU men’s basketball team made its remarkable run to the Final Four in 2005, three redshirts sat on the end of the bench waiting for their chance to get on college basketball’s biggest stage.
When Durrell Summers takes the court Saturday night, the sophomore guard will know exactly what he’s up against. MSU’s opponent, Connecticut, is a juggernaut of a team. The Huskies blazed through the West Region like a forest fire, winning their four tournament games by an average of 25.5 points. In all those games combined, they trailed for a total of three minutes and 27 seconds.
Entering the 2005 NCAA Tournament, many experts figured MSU would be first-round mincemeat. As the dangerous five-seed, the Spartans opened their postseason run against Old Dominion, a mid-major that experts thought was ripe for a deep run in the tournament.
During the regular season, MSU sophomore guard Chris Allen’s role on the team was fairly simple. He was a scorer, and only a scorer. On a good day, Allen was good for about 10 points off the bench. The problem was, he hadn’t been experiencing too many of those days.
Punxsutawney Phil has spoken, and yes, one and all, spring has officially sprung. So, in the spirit of the new season I thought that a fresh and light dessert for the fresh and light mood would be more than appropriate.
Cedar Fest was a massive gathering turned riot last April. What started as a party in Cedar Village took a turn for the worse later that night as the crowd grew and turned destructive.
Dear fellow Spartans, Now that I am well into my second year as mayor of the City of East Lansing, I am proud to say that I have attended every single student event to which I have been invited, and it has been a pleasure.
Bonnie Erbe, a blogger for U.S. News & World Report, made a typical case against universal health care in a February 2008 entry. She argued, “the only reason Canada’s health care system works, for example, is that 90 percent of Canadians live within 100 miles of the U.S. border and they come here for urgent needs.”