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Sports | Basketball Men's 1000

MEN'S BASKETBALL

Highs and lows

COLUMBUS, Ohio - While the majority of the MSU community has been tanning on the beach, the MSU men’s basketball team has been hard at work.

ICE HOCKEY

Hockey falls to U-M, 7-1

ANN ARBOR - MSU couldn’t overcome a multiple unlucky bounces in a disappointing 7-1 loss to archrival No. 11 Michigan on Friday at Yost Ice Arena, in Ann Arbor, Mich.

MEN'S BASKETBALL

Appling shows flashes of old self in Iowa victory

There were less than 20 minutes left in Keith Appling’s MSU career at the Breslin Center, and his Spartan team was getting outplayed by Iowa.Having not made a three-point shot in more than a month, Appling hoisted one up and splashed it, much to the delight of the Breslin crowd.?One problem, it didn’t count.?But that didn’t stop Appling. He went on to hit a free throw and two layups in the game.