Unfortunately for the MSU men’s basketball team, the NCAA has made it illegal to defend a team shooting free throws. In a touchy, tightly officiated Big Ten Tournament semifinal game, the Spartans had to stand aside and watch Wisconsin shoot 37 free throws on 30 team fouls en route to a 65-63 win Saturday afternoon at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.
The MSU men’s basketball team didn’t know much about the Temple Owls when it was revealed the two teams would meet in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, but The Spartans were confident it would only be a matter of hours before they were well educated.
We must make value judgments every day, and it’s easy to make decisions for the wrong reasons because they’re based on flawed logic. Unfortunately, even the basic principles underlying these daily decisions are not standard curriculum in pre-college education.
I recently learned from an MSU cafeterias employee that they often throw away perfectly good food at the end of the day. “They have to do it,” she said. But they don’t. It’s a waste of food.
Throw around as many Michigan Open Meetings Act exemptions as you’d like. It doesn’t make the MSU Board of Trustees’ actions any less dastardly.
With its season on the line, a different Northern Michigan team showed up at Munn Ice Arena on Saturday night.
Indianapolis — In a span of three minutes, the MSU men’s basketball team lost four players and a 10-point lead.
The MSU hockey team has struggled in third periods at times this season. But against Northern Michigan on Friday night, the Spartans turned a one-goal game into a four-goal blowout, scoring three times in the final stanza to knock-off the Wildcats, 5-1, at Munn Ice Arena.
Indianapolis — He didn’t take the leadership role and just run with it — he hopped on a horse and took off.
Indianapolis — Through an up-and-down season, there’s one thing the MSU men’s basketball team has been able to do with every chance it’s had.
An ASMSU official who was charged with third-degree sexual assault Wednesday could continue planning a quarter-million-dollar concert if a bill is approved by Student Assembly. ASMSU’s policy committee passed a bill Thursday that would allow Nigel Scarlett, Student Assembly vice chairperson for external affairs, to continue planning the iVote concert, which has been re-scheduled for next fall.
Trustee Colleen McNamara was on campus for at least six hours for informal meetings Feb. 21, the day before the MSU Board of Trustees monthly meeting.
From give-it-your-all plays to jerseys that make you dry heave, this season has had it all. We now present the best and worst of the 2007-08 men’s basketball regular season.
There’s no better time than the playoffs to exact revenge on a team. A sweep by Northern Michigan essentially knocked the MSU hockey team out of the CCHA regular-season championship race in early February.
It’ll be a barn burner — two passionate squads with everything to prove.
MSU Tower Guard will host its annual Shamrock 5K Run at 10 a.m. Saturday which will begin at Conrad Hall.
Junior goaltender Jeff Lerg was named first-team CCHA All-Conference on Wednesday while junior forward Tim Kennedy was named to the second team.
Deputy Sports Editor Matt Bishop discusses the hockey team’s CCHA Quarterfinal series against Northern Michigan and the team’s NCAA Tournament hopes.
Every day in the U.S., more than 6,000 patients who need a bone marrow transplant cannot find a potential donor. For patients who suffer from diseases such as leukemia and lymphoma, finding a donor can mean the difference between life and death.
The MSU women’s basketball team got off to a (very) slow start, going 2-4 in its first six Big Ten games.