Colorado Springs, Colo. – Six-thousand feet and 6,000 screaming fans didn’t bother the MSU hockey team one bit. With three second period goals, the No. 3 seed Spartans stopped highly-favored Colorado College, 3-1, in the NCAA Tournament West Regional semifinal Friday night at World Arena.
Houston – The last thing Drew Neitzel did as a Spartan was shoot a 3-pointer. The senior guard took a pass, stepped back a few feet from behind the arc and let it fly. Nothing but net. Coming 20-point performances in three of his last four games, Neitzel had just six points – with seven assists – in his last MSU game. After a season in which Neitzel admitted to being a bit scatterbrained, he ended with a strong postseason and now looks to the future. “It’s tough,” he said.
Houston – Like a flash, it was gone. The Spartans were dismantled in the first 20 minutes of their NCAA Tournament regional semifinal against Memphis in Houston on Friday, and found themselves in a hole they couldn’t climb out of – eventually losing, 92-74. MSU was picked apart like they hadn’t been all season in a first half that likened itself to a 16-seed versus a one-seed rather than a 5-seed picked to have a chance at upsetting a top team in the country.
It turned out to be a battle to see which team could launch fewer bricks. The MSU women’s basketball team skidded by Kansas, 58-54, Thursday night at Breslin Center, shooting 34.5 percent from the field.
As soon as Detroit was announced as a site for this weekend’s NCAA Tournament basketball games, MSU alumnus DeArron Easley knew he had to go. “I decided to go to the games at Ford Field because I am a basketball nut who loves this time of year,” he said.
Through Kalin Lucas’ eyes, tonight’s game against Memphis will look more like the Kentucky Derby than the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16. The freshman guard said the fans who make their way to Reliant Stadium at 10 p.m. in Houston are in store for a lightning-quick, up-and-down basketball game between two teams that strive to run a blazing fast-break offense.
A 19-year-old male MSU student was ticketed Wednesday for possession of a stolen university parking pass, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
The defending national champions aren’t supposed to be a large underdog entering the NCAA Tournament.But considering the circumstances surrounding the MSU hockey team’s West Regional semifinal game against Colorado College tonight, it’s difficult to call the Spartans a favorite. First, there’s what should be a raucous crowd at World Arena, where the host Tigers are 18-2-0 this season. Add in an Olympic-size ice sheet and elevation in excess of 6,000 feet and the odds seemed to be stacked against the Spartans.
At 7 a.m. Monday morning, junior guard Travis Walton busted into roommate junior center Goran Suton’s bedroom with his butt down, head up, on the balls of his feet — chopping his legs back and forth to symbolize his defensive stance.
The MSU hockey team has a tall task ahead as it faces Colorado College at 10 p.m. tonight in the NCAA Tournament’s West Regional semifinal at World Arena.
A charity art and auction show to benefit a public health nurse working in Africa will take place from 6:30-9 p.m. at McDonel Hall.
The Grand River Avenue parking ramp near Morrill Hall and Olin Health Center has been awarded a 2008 Aon Build America Award in the “Building New” category.
Holly Rosen didn’t wait for officials from MSU’s Residence Halls Association to notify her that MSU Safe Place would receive proceeds from the group’s charity ball this year.
By neglecting education, some members of the black community are aiding in their own oppression, sociology professor Kalvin DaRonne Harvell said Thursday.
MSU has the nation’s top graduate program in both elementary and secondary education for the 14th year in a row, according to the U.S. News & World Report.
After grasping a plastic pop bottle, seventh-grader Quincey Briggs used black forensic powder and a brush to sweep the bottle and uncover his own fingerprint.
A man charged with the shooting and attempted murder of an East Lansing man last summer has pleaded guilty to assault with intent to murder and felony firearm.
Spring’s first blue skies have a way of making students wish they were outside enjoying the sunshine instead of sitting in an artificially lit lecture hall, but it could be worse.
The Michigan Senate unanimously approved a state renewable portfolio standard Thursday, which would require state facilities to purchase 25 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2025.
For all that has been said about Tom Izzo’s basketball teams playing like football players and his notorious “war drill” that features football pads, it’s only appropriate that the Spartans will play their Sweet 16 game in a football stadium this weekend.