This is the rematch the No. 13 MSU football team has waited for. After a little more than a year of waiting, the Spartans get their chance to redeem themselves of a 37-6 loss to Iowa in Kinnick Stadium last season. Similar to last year’s matchup, there are major implications in Saturday’s game.
San Diego — When most freshmen begin their college basketball careers, there usually is some time for adjustment — a period to get used to the drastic differences between playing in high school and playing NCAA Division I basketball.
While the MSU men’s basketball team is preparing for its first game of the season on the USS Carl Vinson, another group of Spartans will open its season on the court. The women’s basketball team will start its season off in the Iona Tournament, playing its first game against Villanova at 1:45 p.m.
After a crushing 3-0 set loss at No. 16 Minnesota, the MSU volleyball team is looking to right its ship against Wisconsin on Saturday night. So far in the Big Ten season, the Spartans (18-9 overall, 7-8 Big Ten) have either suffered a season sweep or swept opponents they’ve played twice, and the match against Minnesota was no exception. Despite the loss, the Spartans saw some promising things from the team.
Only a day after Tom Izzo announced his strongest recruiting class in years, MSU baseball coach Jake Boss Jr.
The MSU men’s soccer team saw its season come to an end Wednesday with a 2-1 loss to Indiana in the Big Ten Tournament in the quarterfinals. The Spartans fell behind 2-0 in the first 47 minutes before netting a goal in the 81st minute. The Hoosiers netted the first goal in the 38th minute with a shot from about 22 yards out.
Even as the MSU hockey team looks ahead to the Western Michigan series, it has to look back on a tough week of practice. The team lost freshman Branden Carney for the season as he suffered a fracture to his C1 and C2 vertebrae last week.
It would be easy to feel disappointment about the way the season ended for MSU women’s soccer team. Sixty-four teams had their tickets punched for the NCAA Tournament, and even after one of the great seasons in program history, the “Spartans are on the outside looking in.
With the recent child sex abuse scandal at Penn State, the school’s Board of Trustees fired football head coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier Wednesday.
With six games left in the season, the MSU volleyball team is feeling awfully crowded in the Big Ten. Holding strong, the Spartans (18-8 overall, 7-7 Big Ten) are in a three-way tie for fifth place in the conference, clamoring for position over No.
The No. 13 MSU football team’s offense is known to play well at Spartan Stadium, but playing on the road has been a slightly different story.
The MSU men’s soccer team will open up Big Ten Tournament play Wednesday in Ann Arbor. The Spartans (7-7-4 overall, 2-2-2 Big Ten), who finished fifth in the regular season, will take on the No.
Despite its first losing season since 2006, the MSU field hockey team gained much from a disappointing fall.
It was quite the interesting weekend in the Big Ten. Nebraska fell to Northwestern at home, and Michigan couldn’t complete a comeback against Iowa on the road.
Sixty-four teams heard their names called for the NCAA Women’s Soccer Tournament Monday evening, and the MSU women’s soccer team was not one of them.
Sophomore goaltender Molly Cassidy was named to the All-Big Ten Tournament Team after recording 10 saves and posting a .833 save percentage in the team’s 2-1 first-round loss.
Sitting at the top of the Legends Division in the Big Ten, the No. 13 MSU football team has adopted a survive-and-advance mentality to get through the end of the regular season.
It’s an interesting dynamic to take control of the division but still have to talk about Saturday’s ugly 31-24 win, in which MSU allowed the conference’s worst team to hang around for 59 minutes and 30 seconds before remembering it is supposed to be one of the best teams in the country.
The Spartans trounced Grand Valley State, 75-23, concluding their exhibition season and asserting their position as the team to beat in the Big Ten.
As the MSU men’s basketball team finished its exhibition season with two blowouts of Ferris State last Sunday and Hillsdale on friday, head coach Tom Izzo saw things he liked and things he didn’t like.