Spartans set for rematch against Minnesota.
After five consecutive years of watching Ohio State reign atop the Big Ten conference and raise banner after banner, the No. 11 MSU women’s basketball team — with a 69-56 victory at Illinois — have dethroned the former champions and will carry the trophy a few hours north to East Lansing.
After freshman center — a.k.a former Spartan Alyssa DeHaan’s replacement — Madison Williams went down with a torn anterior cruciate ligament, would anyone have believed me if I said MSU women’s basketball head coach Suzy Merchant would be able to reshape her offense and turn the No.
Saturday night’s 61-57 win over Illinois wasn’t enough to take the MSU men’s basketball team off the bubble or make the Spartans a lock for the NCAA Tournament.
Three players helped in their own way in Saturday’s win against Illinois.
Opening the weekend on Friday hosting No. 11 Michigan, the Spartans (9-9 overall, 1-8 Big Ten) fought for a comeback before losing their final two matches with a technical fall for redshirt freshman 133-pounder Chris Lyon and a pin against redshirt freshman 141-pounder Levi Stace. MSU fell to the Wolverines (11-5, 6-3), 24-15.
The MSU hockey team saw its chances of having a first-round home game in the CCHA tournament fade this weekend as it split with Alaska on the road.
The No. 11 MSU women’s basketball team has clinched at least a share of the Big Ten championship.
The MSU hockey team followed up a loss Friday by defeating Alaska, 6-2, in CCHA play on Saturday.
In a battle between two Big Ten teams fighting for their NCAA tournament lives, the MSU men’s basketball team beat Illinois, 61-57, Saturday at Breslin Center.
For the first time since 2007, ESPN’s College GameDay visited East Lansing and Breslin Center on Saturday.
The MSU women’s soccer team has signed seven players to National Letters of Intent for the 2011 season.
When ESPN decided before the season that it would send its College GameDay crew to East Lansing this Saturday, I doubt anyone at the network thought they would be seeing a game between two teams fighting to make the NCAA Tournament in MSU and Illinois.
The MSU men’s basketball team and Illinois have taken a similar path up to this point. When ESPN’s College GameDay selected East Lansing as its Feb. 19 location, they expected different storylines.
The MSU hockey team might see a mirror image of itself and recent opponents this weekend when it visits Alaska.
After receiving its season-high score in last weekend’s competition, the MSU gymnastics team is looking to repeat and improve when it faces Ohio State on the road at 7 p.m. Friday.
For the MSU wrestling team, there is more at stake this weekend than bragging rights over its archenemy.
In the past week, the No. 11 MSU women’s basketball team has taken first place in the Big Ten and sold out Breslin Center for the first time. To say the team is on an emotional high would be an understatement.
It was a valiant effort, but the MSU men’s basketball team simply ran out of gas. Playing with a severely limited junior forward Delvon Roe and an invisible senior guard Durrell Summers, the Spartans still nearly escaped Columbus, Ohio, with a monumental victory. Yes, the Spartans are just three games above .500, but there were so many positives to take out of Tuesday’s 71-61 loss to No.