The No. 2 MSU basketball team might have been missing the beaches of Maui when it welcomed Tennessee Tech to Breslin Center on Sunday. The Spartans had an ugly start, but fought through their own mistakes to defeat the Golden Eagles, 73-55.
Overcoming a 10-point halftime deficit, the No. 2 MSU men’s basketball team defeated the No. 13 Washington Huskies, 76-71, in the third-place game of the Maui Invitational.
The No. 2 men’s basketball team fell to UConn on Tuesday in the second round of the Maui Invitational.
Led by a career-high 28 points from senior guard Kalin Lucas, the No. 2 MSU men’s basketball disposed of a pesky Chaminade team on the way to an 82-74 win in the opening round of the Maui Invitational.
The MSU men’s basketball program hasn’t won an early season tournament since the Pearl Harbor Classic in 1998. The Spartans will try to break that streak at the 2010 Maui Invitational, which begins Monday.
With a later-than-usual 10 p.m. tip-off as a part of ESPN’s Tip-Off Marathon, the MSU men’s basketball team didn’t perform like the No. 2 team in the country, committing 19 turnovers and shooting 50 percent from the free-throw line in an 82-73 victory over South Carolina on Tuesday night at Breslin Center.
When the No. 2 MSU men’s basketball team takes on South Carolina at 10 p.m. Tuesday at Breslin Center, Izzo said his players likely will get a taste of their own medicine.
Austin Thornton came to MSU four years ago as a lights-out shooter. But in the three years since his redshirt season, head coach Tom Izzo said Thornton had yet to put that jumper on display. On Friday, Thornton found his stroke, going 3-for-5 from the field and making all four of his free throw attempts.
Led by senior guard Kalin Lucas’ 18 points and 6 assists, MSU beat Eastern Michigan, 96-66, Friday at Breslin Center.
The No. 2 MSU men’s basketball team kicks off the 2010-11 season today, and the players say past faults are being worked on and chemistry is up to help the team obtain the ultimate prize: the National Title.
Can expectations be too high? For the No. 2 MSU men’s basketball team, they couldn’t be any higher. The tone was set from day one: national championship or bust.
In its final tune-up game before the regular season tips off Friday, the No. 2 MSU men’s basketball team defeated Nebraska-Omaha, 102-72, Monday in an exhibition game at Breslin Center.
Senior guard Kalin Lucas scored a game-high 13 points and dished out three assists in his first game since rupturing his Achilles’, as the No. 2 MSU men’s basketball team beat Saginaw Valley State, 88-44, on Tuesday at Breslin Center.
With several men’s basketball players still coming back from injuries, players noted freshmen guard Keith Appling, center Adreian Payne and forward Alex Gauna as incoming players expected to greatly contribute to the program’s success.
Students tossed footballs and roasted hot dogs over bonfires among the multicolored rows of tents, which filled Munn field Friday night.
After a summer full of injuries, the MSU men’s basketball team is beginning to get everyone back on the court.
MSU men’s basketball senior guards Kalin Lucas and Durrell Summers were named to the John R. Wooden Award Preseason Top 50 List, the Los Angeles Athletic Club announced Monday
The two-time defending Big Ten Champion MSU men’s basketball team will be featured on ESPN’s College GameDay twice next season, including a visit to Breslin Center in February.
The world of college sports usually is a boring one during the summer months. After March Madness — the most exciting two and a half weeks in all of sports — and spring football are complete, there is not much to look forward to between April and August when it comes to major college sports. However, not only was summer 2010 far more intriguing than most summers, it also will end up playing a significant role in the future of MSU athletics.
For the third time in school history, the MSU men’s basketball team will take on the Chaminade Swords when the two teams play in the opening round of the EA Sports Maui Invitational at 9:30 p.m. Nov. 22 in Maui, Hawaii. It will be the first time the two teams have faced each other since 2005, when the Spartans beat the Swords, 89-67, also at the Maui Invitational.