The Duke women’s basketball team’s journey to a national championship is not about the other 63 teams, being a No. 1 seed or its 26-5 record. The number the players have on their mind is 212.
Throw conferences, strength of schedule and RPI out the window. When coming up against the top scorer in the nation, you can’t help but take notice. The MSU women’s basketball team will do just that in its first round NCAA Tournament game against Middle Tennessee State on Sunday, taking the floor against star junior forward Alysha Clark, who leads the nation with 27.3 points per game. In addition, she averages 9.8 rebounds per contest.
Minneapolis — Before heading back to the locker room after pregame warm-ups, MSU sophomore guard Chris Allen has a little ritual: He always takes the last shot.
Minneapolis — Southern Cal’s Taj Gibson scored 24 points on 10-for-10 shooting from the field to lead No. 10-seeded USC to a mild upset Friday, as the Trojans beat No. 7-seed Boston College 72-55 in the NCAA Tournament’s Midwest Region at the Metrodome.
Minneapolis — To this day, Travis Walton remembers the MSU men’s basketball team’s 81-67 loss to North Carolina in the 2007 NCAA Tournament. The now-senior guard said he played awful as a sophomore point guard on that team, hanging his head in despair as the Spartans’ deficit grew deeper and deeper.
Minneapolis — All season long players on the MSU men’s basketball team have been saying they have depth. On Friday night they went out and proved it.
Minneapolis — It’s been several years since Jimmy Langhurst played AAU ball with Raymar Morgan, but the Robert Morris guard said he hadn’t forgotten what type of ability Morgan possessed. Now, maybe the rest of the world will remember. Morgan completed a furious alley-oop dunk on the first play of the game and never hit the brakes, scoring a team-high 16 points to motor No. 2-seed MSU past Robert Morris 77-62 in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday at the Metrodome.
Sophomore forward Corey Tropp has been reinstated to the MSU hockey team, head coach Rick Comley announced Friday.
A 71-year-old professor reported a laptop and accessories stolen from his Berkey Hall office while he was away on spring break, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
To friends, Shane Collins was a bright student whose promising future was cut short by his sudden death last week. “He was the smartest kid I knew and still had time to be friends with everyone,” said no-preference sophomore Nick Weaver, a close friend of Collins. “You don’t find that very often.”
The madness is coming to East Lansing. Breslin Center will shed its green and white in favor of NCAA blue this weekend as MSU plays host to four teams, hundreds of media members and thousands of screaming fans for the first round of the women’s NCAA Tournament. No stranger to postseason play, Breslin Center was home to MSU’s deep WNIT run last season and the Spartans’ first-round NCAA Tournament win in 2007, making it the third consecutive year East Lansing will play host to a title dream.
Minneapolis — When it comes to getting coverage, Robert Morris men’s basketball head coach Mike Rice knows where his team stands.
MSU head coach Tom Izzo couldn’t help but laugh when told of what Raymar Morgan said to the media Thursday afternoon at the Metrodome. Morgan, a junior forward on the MSU men’s basketball team, said the Spartans have played exceptionally well during their last two practices.
Step right up and take your shots at Raymar Morgan. You won’t be the first. Call him too sensitive — it’s not like the junior forward hasn’t heard that one before. Compare his up-and-down play to the stock market, a jab taken at him by a TV commentator earlier this year. Even snicker that he has invented “new ways to travel,” a quip authored by a Sporting News reporter before the season even started. Say whatever you want — just don’t expect Morgan to listen to you.
Finally, Joanne P. McCallie has come back to East Lansing. It’s been exactly two years since the former MSU women’s basketball coach has been on the public stage in East Lansing. That was following her team’s loss to Rutgers in the second round of the 2007 NCAA Tournament.
Preparing to face the nation’s leading scorer and a team that loves to push the ball, the MSU women’s basketball team has had only one thing on its mind this week — transition.
A look at MSU’s first-round opponent, as well as a preview of the next round.
A look at MSU’s first-round opponent, as well as a preview of the next round.
More than 50 students, faculty members and area residents met Thursday on the median of Grand River Avenue at Abbot Road to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war.
A bill introduced Tuesday by state Sen. Wayne Kuipers, R-Holland, seeks to make it possible for citizens to track all of the Michigan government’s spending online. The bill, SB 382, would require the state to post records of all its spending on a free Web site, which would be open for the public to view.