A mile high and a few steps ahead. The MSU men’s basketball team climbed the first-round mountain and built an 18-point lead Temple couldn’t overcome en route to a 72-61 victory Thursday afternoon at Pepsi Center. The Spartans (26-8) continue their road to the Final Four on Saturday against No. 4 Pittsburgh.
About $500 in damage was done to an East Akers Hall window sometime between 5 p.m. March 14 and 1 a.m. Saturday, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Last season, the MSU men’s basketball team advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament and met one of college basketball’s powerhouses — North Carolina. After keeping up with the Tar Heels’ run-and-gun style of play, North Carolina eventually pulled away just by sheer depth and strength.
After last weekend’s devastating loss to Northern Michigan in the CCHA Quarterfinals, the MSU hockey team took the first few days of this week to regroup.
Thursday afternoon may have been a strong indication of promise for the future. With senior guard Drew Neitzel scoring six points on 2-for-11 shooting, some MSU fans might be saying “Uh-oh, we’re doomed in this tournament without Neitzel burying 3-pointers and scoring at least 17 points a game.”
Senior guards Alisa Wulff and Courtney Davidson were hoping Feb. 28 would be the last time they would play at Breslin Center.
Levance Fields scored a season-high 23 points and Keith Benjamin had 12 points and nine rebounds for Pittsburgh as the Panthers defeated Oral Roberts 82-63 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Thursday at Pepsi Center.
At the stroke of noon, Miguel Sanchez took his cell phone and what he considered to be one of the most important unopened envelopes he would ever hold into the hallway.
The Capital Area Transportation Authority will split Route 32 into two separate routes beginning March 24 due to construction on Farm Lane.
The prospects of a second Michigan primary are all but dead after the state Senate adjourned Thursday with no decision on a June 3 revote.
Hundreds of protesters marched through the MSU campus and clogged East Lansing streets Thursday in protest of the war with Iraq.
Clear, crisp high-definition television could be coming to campus next year. The MSU Telecommunication Systems Department is conducting a campuswide test until the end of the month that provides high-definition channels to students on campus.
Of the many metrics by which one can estimate the health of a society, one of the more interesting approaches is to compare the amount of public money spent on corrections versus how much is spent on higher education.
This is in response to the article Tickets in Mile High City scarce for MSU students (SN 3/20). Not only were tickets for MSU’s tournament games in Colorado available to the official team traveling party, players and coaches’ families and donors, but also to alumni and MSU students.
Here we are, five years later. It was on March 19, 2003, that President Bush ordered U.S. troops to invade Iraq under the pretense that former dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime possessed weapons of mass destruction. As the years went on, so did the reports of successes and failures, bombings and casualties.
Arguably the most important contribution from the MSU men’s basketball team in its win against Temple can’t be found in the box score. A combined MSU effort in defending guard Dionte Christmas, Temple and the Atlantic 10’s leading scorer, doesn’t show up on the stat sheet, but might be the most notable of the afternoon. Thanks to Kalin Lucas, Drew Neitzel, Raymar Morgan and especially Travis Walton, the Spartans held Christmas to three points — his lowest point total of the season.
A crowd of more than 30 residents gathered to pay tribute to former East Lansing City Councilmember Beverly Baten on Wednesday at Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road. Baten, who graduated from MSU in 1966, served on the council from 1999 to 2007.
In a marathon match that lasted three overtimes, sophomore wrestler Franklin Gomez overcame a tough unseeded opponent and a hurt ankle to advance to today’s quarterfinals of the NCAA Championships.
A blue and silver Haro Extreme X1 bicycle valued at $1,500 was stolen from a bike rack in the Holden Hall parking lot sometime between 1 p.m. March 13 and 9:40 a.m. Friday, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.