At halftime, the women’s basketball team leads No. 16 Penn State, 34-27. Senior forward Annalise Pickrel leads MSU with 11 points, and senior guard Klarissa Bell has 10 points and eight rebounds.
The women’s basketball team already has toppled one ranked team during its winning streak. Sunday, they will try for a repeat. Winners of six consecutive games, the Spartans (12-5 overall, 4-0 Big Ten) will look to maintain its status as the only undefeated Big Ten team as they host No.
It was “just like football” in Champaign, Ill., as the No. 4 men’s basketball team completed a road sweep in the Land of Lincoln. After beating Northwestern earlier in the week, the Spartans came into Illinois and came out with a 78-62 win over the Fighting Illini.
It wasn’t as easy as Friday night, but MSU completes the sweep of Big Ten foe Penn State, winning 3-2 on Saturday at Munn Ice Arena.
MSU made history on Friday night, securing its first win in the newly formed Big Ten Conference in program history, beating Penn State 3-0 at Munn Ice Arena.
For the first time since 2007, the women’s basketball team will leave Iowa City with a win. Aided by hot shooting from behind the arc, the women’s basketball team built a 21-point halftime lead and cruised to a win Thursday night, defeating Iowa at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, 87-72.
MSU has a long tradition of success on the basketball court, but they’re one win away from putting another historic notch in their green and white belt. With a win in Champaign, Ill.
The women’s basketball team hit on all cylinders in the first half against Iowa, entering halftime with a 49-28 lead.
For the last two months, the No. 4 men’s basketball team’s starting five has looked like a carousel.
MSU will have two more opportunities to find its first win in the newly-formed Big Ten as the Spartans return home for the first time in more than a month against Penn State.
The wrestling team lost its first match of 2014 earlier this month to Iowa, 41-0, and will face No. 2 Minnesota today, two of the top teams in the country — and MSU will have to stop focusing on rankings in order to come out victorious. No.
There’s no arguing it, No. 4 MSU is one of the best squads in the nation – truly a “Final Four or bust” team.
Gary Harris and Keith Appling combined to score 25 points to lead the No. 4 MSU men’s basketball team to a 54-40 win against Northwestern Wednesday night in Evanston, Ill. Appling also contributed four assists, while junior forward Branden Dawson grabbed 11 rebounds to lead MSU.
It’s been a rough three years for junior guard Travis Trice, who has been haunted during his career by three I’s: injury, infection and illness.
Fresh off a close win over Michigan, the women’s basketball team (11-5 overall, 3-0 Big Ten)SB is playing its best basketball of the season.
The last time Northwestern won a game against a top-5 opponent was in 1979 against the Spartans, and after the first half Wednesday night, they’re in prime position to do it again.
On paper, the No. 4 men’s basketball team should have no problem dismantling Northwestern in MSU’s first road game in 11 days. However, coming fresh off an upset of then-No.
When there is so much pressure resting on you, the best thing to do is relax. Even if you have to throw yourself in the air and flip over twice. Even if you have to tumble on a 4-foot-high and 4-inch wide surface. Even if you have to run toward a still object as fast as you can, like MSU junior gymnast Alina Cartwright does every day. As MSU’s gymnastics season gets underway, Cartwright is focusing on relaxing to reach her goals of placing and medaling at the Big Ten championship, as well as at nationals. Cartwright’s lofty goals date back to her career as a high school gymnast.
Sunday’s 79-72 victory against Michigan was familiar territory for women’s basketball head coach Suzy Merchant.