He might be the architect of this game. He helped build one program, visiting homes across the country to find the purest talent to wear Carolina Blue.
Junior center Paul Davis has come a long way. Before the season, he said he wanted to average a double-double a game. During the regular season, he fell short of this goal, but now, in the most important time of the year, Davis has met his goal, averaging 15.0 points and 10.8 rebounds per game in four NCAA Tournament games, including a career-high 14 rebounds against Vermont on March 20. "It's time," Davis said.
Members of the African Student Union will bring the sights, sounds and tastes of Africa to the community this weekend at their annual gala show, which caps off this year's African Culture Week. The event is titled "The Faces of the Motherland" and is free for MSU students.
OK, let me answer the most frequently asked questions first. No, I don't want to play beer pong.
All the talk leading up to Saturday's game has been about the athletes that make up North Carolina's team, and their ability to run. But MSU has a few athletes of its own, starting with sophomore guard Shannon Brown. The Chicago-native is averaging 10.8 points and 3.2 rebounds per game in his second year at MSU.
MSU fans who swept up men's basketball apparel this week might have received more than a college keepsake. One Nike T-shirt design splashed with a Final Four logo that had Michigan spelled "Michgan," could turn out to be a collector's item, said Howard Ballein, owner of Student Book Store, 421 E.
Winter is fading in East Lansing but that doesn't mean northern sports and culture are. On Friday, the MSU Outing Club will host the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour on campus with screenings of short action, animated and documentary films, all of which were shown at the official festival in Banff, Alberta, Canada in 2004.
As the season progresses for the No. 1 seed MSU women's basketball team, the leadership needs to show up even more than before, and that is exactly what is happening as the Spartans head into the Final Four. "I have been very proud of the roles that Liz (Shimek), Kelli (Roehrig), Lindsay (Bowen) and Kristin (Haynie) have been playing," MSU head coach Joanne P.
In response to Patrick Walters' column "'R-word best left unused until MSU's tournament bids are complete" '(SN 3/31), I hate to say it, but MSU earned that infamous reputation.
Duke hadn't lost to MSU since 1958, and it has one of the most successful active coaches. Kentucky had seven championships and beat MSU in front of the biggest crowd in college basketball history. But the MSU men's basketball team didn't flinch at its past losses and recently took down both college basketball giants in the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight. Now the Spartans (26-6) don't want it any other way.
While hundreds of teams (and prognosticators) sit at home, the Boss and BC are on there way with Louisville, North Carolina, Illinois and MSU, to St.
Not only is the men's basketball team splashed across multiple pages in The State News, the boys are seen giving Tom Izzo noogies after the Kentucky game, proudly wearing their Final Four T-shirts after the buzzer sounds and holding up their precious string from the basketball net all across newspapers and screens around the country.
The No. 1 seed MSU women's basketball team out of the Kansas City Regional will face No. 1 seed Tennessee out of the Philadelphia Regional. Tennessee (30-4) is making its 16th appearance in the Final Four, as the Spartans (32-3) are making their first ever. Along with their 16th appearance, head coach Pat Summitt recently became the winningest coach in NCAA Division 1A history, passing none other than former North Carolina coach Dean Smith.
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No. 5 seed MSU (26-6) Coach: Tom Izzo Leading scorers: guard Maurice Ager (13.8 points per game), swingman Alan Anderson (13.7 ppg) and center Paul Davis (12.2 ppg). It's been a mini-Cinderella run for the Spartans, as they have unexpectedly made it to the Final Four. After overcoming the No.
All I can say right now is - who'd have thunk? Both the men's and women's teams in the Final Four together - Wow! I remember going to the men's Final Four in 2000, when I was a senior in high school, and how exciting it was to watch my team cut down the nets and host the crystal basketball. Spartans fans must be on top of cloud nine right now, thinking about what could be. After 2000, I came to MSU my freshman year with great expectations for the men's team and watched as they made it to its third-straight Final Four.
First and foremost, congrats to both the men and the women on making the Final Four. It is an outstanding achievement for both the men's and women's team, and I know the entire campus is beaming with pride; a pride you can honestly feel and see with all the Michigan State memorabilia worn across campus.
Envision a stage littered with sand and actors dressed in tie-dyed T-shirts - it's a far call from the more obvious picture which comes to mind when thinking about a Shakespearean play. But that's exactly what audiences will get when they go to see the BoarsHead Theatre rendition of William Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors." Co-director Geoffrey Sherman said he and his partner Diana Van Fossen chose to set the play in modern Greece because the contemporary setting makes it easier for the audience to understand. "You look for a modern parallel of the story that's being told," Sherman said.
Despite efforts to increase student interest, voter turnout for this year's ASMSU election was once again disappointing.