Members of the MSU men’s basketball team and head coach Tom Izzo will be the first to note that tonight’s game at Indiana has a lot more to it than meets the eye.
During his team’s three-game losing streak, Tom Izzo was looking for some resiliency and a rallying cry from his players. The MSU men’s basketball head coach thinks he found it during Saturday’s 65-54 win against Penn State, and a key reason was junior guard Mike Kebler’s defensive performance on Penn State guard Talor Battle.
A game circled back in November on the MSU and Purdue men’s basketball teams’ schedules has been reinforced with another layer of ink.
The MSU men’s basketball team is hoping rapper Drake wasn’t a prophet in “Forever” when he said, “Like a sprained ankle, boy, I ain’t nothing to play with.”
Point guard is a position of leadership. It’s unavoidable.
Darlis Nix remembers her son’s trek to and from Detroit Pershing High School by the tears flowing from his eyes. An immensely talented basketball player and future high school state champion and Mr. Basketball winner, Derrick Nix also was the heftiest kid in his class growing up.
The No. 5 MSU men’s basketball team used an 18-4 run out of halftime to build a sizable lead against Northwestern on Saturday night at Breslin Center en route to a 79-70 win.
When the No. 5 MSU men’s basketball team meets up with Northwestern on Saturday at Breslin Center (7 p.m., BTN) it will mark the third time the Spartans already have played an opponent twice in their Big Ten schedule.
During the past few weeks, head coach Tom Izzo has sounded more like a pirate than a basketball coach.
Tom Izzo disagrees with former football coach and current trustee George Perles’ famous quote, “They all count one.” The mantra is something the MSU men’s basketball head coach won’t be thinking tonight when the No. 5 Spartans (17-3, 7-0) travel to Ann Arbor to face Michigan (10-9, 3-4).
To all Spartans fans outraged by the new MSU logo, men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo has a message: Shame on you.
Their work here is done. The MSU men’s basketball team put a final — though potentially discouraging — stamp on a crucial homestand Wednesday night by beating Iowa 70-63 to improve its record to 6-0 in the Big Ten and hold its lead in the conference standings.
This is why you don’t abandon ship when the MSU men’s basketball team loses to unranked Florida in November.
Tom Izzo won’t call Raymar Morgan the next Travis Walton, but the MSU men’s basketball head coach says it should be noted that the senior forward’s defense this season has improved. Given the opportunity for consistent marking in a game, Morgan has the ability to shut down an opponent.
To be the best, you’ve got to beat the best. The MSU men’s basketball team made a strong case as the Big Ten’s top dog Saturday, knocking off the last team standing in its way of perching atop of the Big Ten standings outright, hammering Illinois 73-63 on Saturday afternoon in front of an inspired capacity crowd at Breslin Center.
And then there were two. And soon there will be one. The remaining duo of undefeated teams in the Big Ten will meet in a pivotal January matchup Saturday when the Illinois men’s basketball team travels to Breslin Center to meet No. 7 MSU (3:30 p.m., CBS).
Outside, temperatures plummeted to the low teens and a bone-chilling wind chill was enough to keep anyone indoors.
It’s only right that the decade’s best team is well-represented on the All-Decade team. Mateen Cleaves and Morris Peterson already have had their numbers retired, and Charlie Bell also might get that honor some day, but he gets knocked out of the starting lineup for Alan Anderson — just barely.
The Wofford Terriers came to East Lansing looking to give the MSU men’s basketball team a dogfight. And, for most of the night, they did.
Aside from common articles and pronouns, one word resounded in head coach Tom Izzo’s weekly press conference more than any other: embarrassed.