At halftime of its first exhibition game of the season, the MSU women’s basketball team leads Saginaw Valley State 35-16.
For junior defender Kevin Cope, the MSU men’s soccer team’s 1-0 loss to No. 2 Akron on Wednesday is a good example of how their season has unfolded.
For the third-straight year, sophomore center Madison Williams will miss the entirety of the 2012-13 season for the MSU women’s basketball team after suffering a torn left anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL.
Although the Spartans’ record may not reflect it, Saturday’s matchup against No. 21 Nebraska will feature a battle of two Big Ten giants.
The game might not count in the stat sheet, but when Gary Harris put on his jersey with the block “Spartans,” emblazoned across his chest for the very first time, it didn’t take long for the novelty to wear off.
With a Big Ten Tournament finals appearance likely being the key to a NCAA Tournament berth, the MSU field hockey team starts its journey to the Big Dance on Thursday.
Sophomore Madison Williams will miss the entire 2012-13 after re-injuring her left anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, according to a press release from the MSU athletics department. This will be the third straight season the 6-foot-7 center will miss because of her injuries.
Dawson scored a team-high 16 points along with seven rebounds, to help the Spartans blow out Northwood 85-57 Tuesday at Breslin Center to kick off the basketball season.
Almost eight months, then-freshman guard Branden Dawson found himself on the floor of the Breslin Center court, just 10 minutes into MSU’s final regular season game against Ohio State.
Tom Anastos understands the MSU hockey team is on a learning curve. After losing nearly half the roster from his inaugural season, including star defenseman Torey Krug, that much is to be expected. But what Anastos won’t tolerate is lacking mental preparedness to compete, which he said plagued his team in Friday’s 3-2 loss to Lake Superior State in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
As the month of October comes to a close for the MSU football team, it means more than just turning a page on a calendar. With only three games left in the season, the Spartans (5-4 overall, 2-3 Big Ten) are in the final stretch of the 2012 season, fighting for a chance to extend their season with a sixth win that would make them bowl eligible.
Just days before the first game of the season, the MSU women’s basketball team is dealing with a flurry of injuries that are changing the entire look of this team.
The MSU field hockey fell to Iowa last month, but now that the Big Ten Tournament is around the corner, it’s going to be a completely different ball game.
After a slow start, the No. 14 MSU men’s basketball team took off in its exhibition opener, rolling over Northwood (Fla.) 85-57 Tuesday night at Breslin Center.
MSU finished the first half leading Northwood 34-28, with Dawson’s highlight reel hardly limited to the game’s opening minute.
Every program has one or two players who set the bar high for the program and stand out in history. In the case of the MSU women’s soccer team, that program-changing player is Laura Heyboer.
They were never going to be in the ring at the same time, but the heavyweight bout for rushing supremacy between the Big Ten’s top two running backs was expected to go the distance.
After months of training and practice, the MSU men’s basketball team will play before a crowd for the first time Tuesday when the Spartans host Northwood in their first exhibition game of the 2012 season.
Coming into his freshman season, there were monumental expectations for Branden Dawson. The centerpiece of his recruiting class, the 6-foot-6, 220-pound slashing guard from Gary, Ind., was heralded as one of head coach Tom Izzo’s prize players in the pursuit of future NCAA Tournament runs. And his first season certainly didn’t disappoint.
Heading into Sunday afternoon’s game against Indiana, MSU men’s soccer (8-7-1) player Jay Chapman had yet to receive a collegiate point. The freshman midfielder hadn’t picked up a goal or an assist throughout his 12 games as a Spartan, and he apparently thought Sunday was the perfect time to put an end to that.