After a hectic week of basketball beginning with a blowout loss to then No. 2 Kentucky, a confidence boosting win over Mississippi Valley State and then a controversial win against Florida Gulf Coast, MSU has fallen to No. 24 in the rankings, dropping 11 spots in the AP poll.
On Sunday from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. the Magic Johnson Foundation had their annual Holiday Hope giveaway at Everett High School where MSU alumni, Magic Johnson grew up and went to high school.
MSU police made 24 arrests over the weekend according to their Clery Crime and Fire Log.
The smell of food lingered throughout McDonel Hall on Nov. 18. The smell stopped some students in their tracks and left others with rumbling stomachs.
Thanksgiving is this Thursday and many students will return home to see family and rest up for the home stretch of the semester. However, there are also many students who won’t have the opportunity to go back home and spend time with family.
No. 13 MSU men’s basketball escaped Florida Gulf Coast in a thrilling 78-77 win Sunday night aided by a clock error that seemed to have cheated FGCU out of a chance to win. With 2.8 seconds remaining in the game FGCU guard Christian Terrell tried to inbound the ball out of a timeout, only to have it swatted out-of-bounds by MSU forward Miles Bridges on the baseline. Bridges’ block drained the clock to 1.6 seconds giving FGCU ample but short time for a buzzer-beating shot on an executed inbounds pass.
On October 28, the MSU Board of Trustees announced they were requesting a return of the state budget to 2011 levels.
The Associated Students of MSU (ASMSU) is still working on developing a Safe Rides program for students to get home safely and to take proactive measures against assaults on and off-campus. MSU is one of the few Big Ten universities that has not developed a Safe Rides program and ASMSU has been working on developing the service for almost five years.
A frenetically paced and foul filled first half, seeing both sides commit nine turnovers and double digits infractions, left the Spartans leading by just two points to Florida Gulf Coast.
In the fall of 1989, Sparty’s current form was introduced for the first time to the MSU community.
It was going to take more than a little rain to deter MSU students from going to University Activity Board’s A Night in Diagon Alley, a Harry Potter themed event at the Union.
Visiting assistant professor Anna Buckner has a couple of different ways to get her in the mood for art. Sometimes she makes a lavender tea, and other times she listens to bluegrass music like she did growing up in North Carolina.
No. 13 MSU basketball was back at Breslin Center again and fresh of their first win of the season against Mississippi Valley State this past Friday.
Follow along with The State News football beat writers Nathaniel Bott and Stephen Olschanski as they tackle MSU basketball. No. 13 MSU (1-2) hosts Florida Gulf Coast (1-2) in a non-conference tilt at Breslin Center. Send them your thoughts, questions and comments below.
Deep in the heart of Columbus with the wind sweeping down on Ohio Stadium, MSU kicker Michael Geiger stepped to the ball, launched it end over end off his and foot and sent it straight.
For the greater part of the 2016 MSU football campaign, two things were certain. Uncertainty and criticism. No position, no personnel, no coach, no decision seemed to get by unscathed.
The last time MSU started the season 0-2 was the 2011-2012 season, where the Spartans dropped games to North Carolina and Duke. Then they went to win their next 15 games in a row, win the Big Ten Tournament and secure a No. 1-seed in the NCAA Tournament.
For much of the season, the MSU men’s soccer team found itself in a resurgence. After falling below .500 in 2015, missing the NCAA Tournament and bowing out in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament, the Spartans responded with an upstart season, climbing the national rankings all the way to No. 12 in the NSCAA coaches poll.
After a deeply divisive presidential election cycle, the country has a new president-elect, Donald Trump.
After a close loss against No. 2 Minnesota, No. 13 MSU Volleyball made the trip to play another heavy hitting team, No. 3 Wisconsin on Saturday.