Malik Hall and Tyson Walker helped carry the Spartans to a 76-66 win against the Minnesota Golden Gophers in a tight back-and-forth match.
After returning to the winning column Sunday afternoon against Rutgers, the Michigan State men’s basketball team will be back home Thursday night to take on the Minnesota Golden Gophers at 6:30 p.m.
Michigan State basketball graduate student Steven Izzo, the son of Hall-of-Fame head coach Tom Izzo, logged his first career points during MSU’s 73-55 win over Rutgers on Sunday afternoon.
After narrowly falling to No. 10 Illinois on Thursday, the 9-7 Michigan State men’s basketball team will look to put its 1-4 start in Big Ten play behind it and take advantage of its favorable schedule for the next month, starting Sunday at noon against Rutgers in East Lansing.
The Spartans and the Fighting Illini both shot 42% from the floor Thursday night. Where Michigan State had seven turnovers, Illinois had eight. Where Michigan State had 37 rebounds, Illinois had 34. Pretty much everything on paper Thursday in Champaign looked nearly identical—until you looked at the free-throw column.
The Michigan State men’s basketball team will get back on the road Thursday to take on No. 10 Illinois after its tough 88-74 loss to Northwestern Sunday night.
Ever since Michigan State’s men’s basketball team’s 77-70 loss at Nebraska on Dec. 10 to drop to 0-2 in conference play, the Spartans have played like an entirely different team.
To kick off the new year, the Michigan State men’s basketball team dominated the Penn State Nittany Lions 92-61 for both teams’ third Big Ten matchup of the season.
This unexpected challenge Michigan State took after the holiday break resulted in one of their strongest wins so far this season. But based on how they were playing in November, it was not likely a game the Spartans would have won.
The Spartans finished their up-and-down December with an 87-75 victory over the red-hot Indiana State Sycamores, marking their fourth straight win after losing consecutive conference games to open the month.
Michigan State basketball’s Jeremy Fears Jr. was shot in the leg late Friday/early Saturday and underwent surgery, the team announced Saturday afternoon.
The Spartan squad dished out 33 assists on 38 made field goals on the night headlined by ten assists each from senior guard A.J. Hoggard and freshman guard Jeremy Fears Jr.. Prior to the matchup against the Seawolves, Fears had logged a career-high five assists in the Nov. 19 game against Alcorn State—now that number is doubled.
The 99-55 win marked MSU’s third straight after it dropped two straight in conference play to fall below .500 just two months after being ranked No. 4 to start the season.
In the Monday night 79-62 home victory over the Oakland Golden Grizzlies, Tyson Walker logged his 1,000th career point with the Spartans—the 24th fastest to do so in just 80 games.
The Spartans rode the wave of momentum from their 24-point crushing of Baylor on Saturday with a 79-62 win over the Grizzlies, pushing them over the .500 mark at 6-5 and putting themselves in a relatively comfortable position confidence-wise in their current string of non-conference games.
In a press conference Thursday, head coach Tom Izzo reflected on the start of the season and said the team needed to get back the identity they had since Izzo took the helm 28 years ago: defend, rebound and run. Michigan State’s Saturday afternoon 88-64 beatdown of Baylor was a near-textbook performance of Izzo’s mantra.
MSU executed the Hall-of-Fame coach’s slogan to a tee Saturday afternoon in its unforeseen 88-64 beatdown of Baylor. The team controlled the glass, swallowed the Bears up defensively and turned their missed shots and turnovers into points on the other end.
Ahead of a Saturday matinee matchup with No. 6 Baylor at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, head coach Tom Izzo said neither he nor his team are panicking. But they know they need to start picking up quality wins, starting with what Izzo said would be a “big-time win” against the Bears.
The Spartans, in danger of falling way behind in the Big Ten title conversation, will look to shut down Nebraska on defense and find enough flow offensively to come away with a much-needed road victory.
