The MSU hockey team enjoyed a bye weekend, but the rest of the CCHA continued with its league play. First-place Michigan lost twice to Notre Dame, 4-1 and 5-2.
Rolling, tumbling and jumping their way to victory, the MSU gymnastics team scored 196.775 and defeated Ohio State and West Virginia to break an all-time university scoring record on Saturday. While a crowd of 1,049 at Jenison Field House watched, the team took titles in every event but vault and eclipsed the previous MSU all-time record of 196.575, a score they had tied Feb.
State College, Pa. - Sharpen the scissors and get the ladders out of storage, because MSU is playing for a Big Ten Championship - and a chance to cut down the nets - Tuesday against Wisconsin at Breslin Center. The Spartans (17-9 overall, 12-3 Big Ten) beat Penn State, 67-42, on Saturday night, guaranteeing them at least a share of the Big Ten Championship if they win their regular season finale against the Badgers. "Everything now is one and done," head coach Tom Izzo said.
State College, Pa. - The Spartans are honoring a creed handed down from generation to generation: sharing. Against Penn State, nearly every Spartans shot was prefaced with pass.
Former Spartans defenseman Andrew Hutchinson's power-play goal in overtime lifted the Nashville Predators over the New York Rangers on Saturday, 2-1. Hutchinson was called up Wednesday from the Milwaukee Admirals, Nashville's minor-league affiliate, after Nashville defenseman Jason York fractured a cheekbone. Hutchinson, who played at MSU from 1998 to 2002, tallied 78 total points and 160 penalty minutes.
Bloomington, Ind. - Another close game on the road turned into another win for the No.
Next week cannot come any sooner. Girlfriends wait with fear and trepidation while their boyfriends' hormones get revved up.
MSU men's swimming and diving finished up a competition at the Big Ten Championships with individual performers excelling. The championship was held Friday and Saturday in West Lafayette, Ind. Standing out for the Spartans was Ian Clutten, who placed seventh in the 200 breaststroke, swimming the event in a time of 1:59.73 and earning an NCAA provisional qualifying time.
MSU softball heads to Florida this weekend to play against Stony Brook, Maryland and Florida International before entering into bracket play during the Florida International Tournament. The Spartans will face season-starters Stony Brook and 3-2 Maryland on Friday before taking on 2-9 Florida International on Saturday. MSU has 13 extra base hits on the season and hopes to keep up that momentum throughout this weekend's play. Coming off of a 1-1 showing at last weekend's UNLV tournament, the Spartans athletes hope to keep their record-breaking performances.
After tying the school's record score last week, the MSU women's gymnastics team wants to break that record on Saturday in its final home meet of the season. The No.
A computerized ranking to determine the Bowl Championship Series in college football causes more headaches than it originally was intended to, and college hockey's PairWise Rankings are no exception. While the MSU hockey team enjoys a bye week, you, the fans, should be concerned not only about next weekend's series against Michigan, but the upcoming NCAA Tournament as well.
The Big Ten is portrayed in the national media as the black sheep of the major conferences, and Tom Izzo doesn't like it. With the Big Ten's best record, MSU (16-9 overall, 11-3 Big Ten) is nearly a lock for the NCAA Tournament.
After four years of playing at Breslin Center, senior forward Julie Pagel isn't necessarily ready to say goodbye. "It's sobering; you spend four years somewhere, and it feels like you only spent a day," Pagel said.
Senior Sarah Martin earned the title of Big Ten Golfer of the Week. Martin, who helped take the Spartans to a 14.5-3.5 dual-match win at the Spartan/Wildcat Cup last week, took the title for the first time in her college career. Martin received the title, which she shares with Ohio State junior Kristen White, by tying for the Spartans' high score and by shooting a tournament-best score of 73 in last week's tournament.
The MSU women's swimming and diving team took 10th place at the 2004 Big Ten Championships on Feb.
The MSU gymnastics team tied a school record on Saturday by defeating Pitt in a 196.575 performance at Jenison Field House. The Spartans posted season-high team vault scores of 49.000 and 49.075, respectively, in the first and second rotations. Victoria Iakounina turned out a season-best score of 9.900 and took the event title on bars, while teammate Sarah Alexander took the beam title with a score of 9.900.
Spartans softball finished 1-1 Saturday at the first day of the UNLV Tournament. In the first shutout of the season, MSU defeated Butler, 6-0.
For all the homesick freshmen, put yourself in Pascale Schnitzer's shoes. A no-preference freshman on the MSU women's tennis team, Schnitzer moved more than 5,000 miles away from her home in Santiago, Chile, at the beginning of this semester to play tennis.
What a difference a game makes. Michigan's improbable win against Wisconsin on Sunday suddenly thrust the Wolverines into the batch of Big Ten NCAA Tournament hopefuls.
The MSU hockey team's hopes of dressing its current full roster for the next series against Michigan vanished after this past weekend. Freshman forward Drew Miller and junior forward Kevin Estrada are ineligible to compete in game one of the U-M series at 8:05 p.m.