A season after playing the first outdoor college basketball game on an aircraft carrier, the No. 14 MSU men’s basketball team kicked off its 2012-13 campaign inside Hanger 5 at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany.
Keith Appling is in rare company. Being a point guard in the MSU basketball program, the names of his predecessors read like a Mount Rushmore of achievement, forever carved into the MSU Athletics Hall of Fame.
The State News was able to link up with a few former MSU athletes to see what post-East Lansing life has been like for them.
Since the moment he arrived on MSU’s campus, a fire has been burning within Draymond Green. A meticulous broil, the burn fueled the ascent of a chubby, brace-faced kid from Saginaw into the NABC Division I National Player of the Year in four short, but memorable years.
Green, a former MSU basketball player and 2012’s Big Ten Player of the Year, was selected 35th overall by the Golden State Warriors in the second round of the 2012 NBA Draft Thursday night.
The announcement today from ESPN and the MSU Athletics Department that the men’s basketball team will be traveling to Germany for its 2012 season opener has many saying, “Athletics Director Mark Hollis has done it again.”
MSU men’s basketball assistant coach Dwayne Stephens has been elevated to the role of associate head coach, the athletics department announced on Tuesday.
Former MSU men’s basketball player Brandon Wood was arrested Sunday morning after an altercation outside a residence near downtown Chicago.
Draymond Green and Tom Izzo were honored Sunday by the National Association of Basketball Coaches. Senior forward Green was named the National Player of the Year, making him the third Spartan to earn National Player of the Year honors.
Phoenix — The No. 1-seed MSU men’s basketball team ran into a match-up they hadn’t faced all season in a schedule that seemed to have every style of team.
Phoenix — Draymond Green ended his career accomplishing one of his many goals — a career that ended three games sooner than he wished in a 57-44 Sweet 16 loss to Louisville. The senior forward surpassed Greg Kelser as the MSU all-time leading rebounder, but in a season he hoped to go to the Final Four, it didn’t matter.
For possibly the first time all season, the men’s basketball team’s center duo of Derrick Nix and Adreian Payne were on in the same game in Friday’s 89-67 win against LIU Brooklyn.
Columbus, Ohio — The No. 1-seed MSU men’s basketball team ran away with its first game of the 2012 NCAA Tournament against No. 16-seed LIU Brooklyn, 89-67..
The men’s basketball team defeated Ohio State on Sunday to win the Big Ten Tournament and went on to earn a spot as the No.
Indianapolis — Adreian Payne had a focus he’s never had before during the No. 8 men’s basketball team’s 92-75 win against Iowa.
_Indianapolis —_ It wasn’t quite the 34-point beat down that the No. 8 MSU men’s basketball team gave Iowa when the Hawkeyes came to Breslin Center Jan. 10, but the 92-75 win in the second round of the Big Ten Tournament gave the Spartans plenty to be happy about.
The MSU men’s basketball team picked up two major accolades Monday night when senior forward Draymond Green was named Big Ten Player of the Year and head coach Tom Izzo was named the conference’s coach of the year.
After an inspired first half, the No. 5 MSU men’s basketball team traded blows with No. 10 Ohio State in the second half of the 72-70 loss. The loss ends the season with MSU, Ohio State and Michigan tied for the Big Ten regular season championship at 13-5 in the conference.
The No. 6 MSU men’s basketball team avoided a scare on its trip to Minnesota, winning in the last two minutes, 66-61.
Coming off two wins against No. 6 Ohio State and No. 15 Wisconsin, No. 7 MSU now holds the longest winning streak in the Big Ten.