After its 2000 National Championship, the MSU men’s basketball team lost Mateen Cleaves, Morris Peterson and A.J. Granger. Luckily for head coach Tom Izzo, the Spartans had Charlie Bell, Andre Hudson and Jason Richardson coming back, along with two dynamite freshmen in Marcus Taylor and Zach Randolph.
In 2007, ESPN reporter Andy Katz wrote a piece anointing MSU as the top basketball program over the past 10 seasons. Two years later, I’m ready to take that coronation a step further. Not only has MSU been the nation’s best program in that span, head coach Tom Izzo has been the nation’s best coach.
Tom Izzo blames Bo and Woody. In the 1960s and ’70s, Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler and Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes were the poster boys of a rough-and-rugged Big Ten Conference.
The Student Alumni Foundation and MSU athletics department allotted 79 tickets to the Final Four in Detroit to members of the Izzone student section on Wednesday through a lottery.
Even though the Spartans will be playing 90 miles away, MSU basketball fans have the opportunity to watch the MSU men’s basketball team play Saturday from inside the friendly confines of Breslin Center.
The man known as South Africa’s Martin Luther King Jr. will deliver the university’s keynote speech at spring commencement. Desmond Tutu, a South African activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, is scheduled to speak at 1 p.m. May 8 at Breslin Center. The event will be free to the public.
Health officials are awaiting lab results to determine the cause of a viral outbreak that sickened 25 to 30 MSU students and caused the indefinite closure of Shaw Hall’s cafeteria Wednesday.
A 41-year-old Lansing man who unintentionally flagged down an MSU police officer Friday morning was eventually arrested for stealing another man’s debit card, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
The MSU men’s basketball team has all the storylines. The season is the 30th anniversary of the basketball program’s first national championship.
Two student organizations’ futures rely on a campuswide student vote this week. The Residence Halls Association and Impact (89-FM) each charge a student tax that the organizations rely almost completely on for funding. Every three years, each tax referendum goes before a student vote to determine whether the taxes continue.
In his four years at MSU, communication senior Mike Haslett never missed a chance to watch a game with the Izzone. This weekend, he’ll miss the two most important games of the year.
Next week, MSU junior Jack Newman will venture to Augusta, Georgia, for the premiere golf event in the world: the Masters Tournament. Newman will walk in the footsteps of Jack, Arnie, Tiger and Lefty — men who made their names at the famed Augusta National Golf Club.
College is a whole new world for many freshmen traveling campus for the first time. The State News sat down with one of these brave explorers to get a glimpse, in 15 questions or less, at a new face on campus and his perspective of his new frontier.
Fans can wish the MSU men’s basketball team good luck before the Final Four at a send-off party scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Breslin Center.
A local business allows customers of all ages to express their creativity and build a masterpiece — except the work of art may consist of crushed Reese’s Pieces, fresh raspberries and hot fudge. Or it could be a combination of broken Oreo chunks and a drizzled caramel, marshmallow topping.
Cheryl Connell-Marsh still loves to do the morning feed. After 25 years at Nottingham Equestrian Center, 16848 Towar Ave., she still loves to go in the barn in the morning when it’s dark and quiet and the horses mostly are asleep.
MSU senior Megan O’Brien will spend part of her summer taking a crash course in community organizing. O’Brien, a social relations and policy and urban and regional planning senior, was accepted into the Direct Action and Research Training Center, or DART, Organizers Institute.
Kenneth Wyniemko spent almost 10 years in prison for rape and robbery crimes he was later cleared of. On Tuesday, Wyniemko spoke to MSU professor Zach Hambrick’s psychology class about his time in jail, fighting for his innocence.
Parents shouldn’t be so quick to tell their children to stop playing video games, according to a study released by MSU psychology professor Linda Jackson this month in Barcelona, Spain.
MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio addressed the media Tuesday afternoon before the team’s fourth of 15 spring practices. Here’s what Dantonio had to say about the Spartans practicing in pads, the position battles and the men’s basketball team’s journey to the Final Four.