Hoffman Estates, Ill.- Defense wins championships, or in the case of the MSU women’s basketball team, it gets them closer to one.
Jasmine Thomas missed the final shot she ever took at Breslin Center in a Spartan uniform – a free throw with 2.3 seconds left in the game and a six-point lead in hand. But it doesn’t matter to her.
Jasmine Thomas missed the final shot she ever took at Breslin Center in a Spartan uniform.
As the regular season winds down, the MSU women’s basketball team stuck to what got it to 20 wins this season for the 10th-consecutive year: balanced scoring and defense. The Spartans went on the road and avenged an earlier loss to Purdue by sinking the No.
In the beginning, it looked like a replay of the first matchup between MSU women’s basketball and Purdue. The Boilermakers’ sixth-year senior forward Drey Mingo scored six of No.
The final road trip of the season for the MSU women’s basketball team could prove to be the most challenging yet for the Spartans as they travel to No. 25 Purdue (20-7 overall, 9-5 Big Ten) tonight.
They are former star players, team captains and all-area performers. They know the tendencies of the Big Ten’s top teams and players.
Similar to the Spartans’ previous road game – a one-point loss to Michigan – senior guard Jasmine Thomas did everything in her power to will MSU to victory tonight at Ohio State.
There will be no rest for the weary MSU women’s basketball team as it concludes the 2012-13 regular season.
With three games left in the regular season, as well as the Big Ten tournament and NCAA Tournament on the horizon, the final chapter has yet to be written on this year’s MSU women’s basketball team.
There were two records on Suzy Merchant’s mind heading into Wednesday’s home matchup with Northwestern – one evoked nerves while the other evoked pride. The first, the Wildcats’ losing record on the season, made the sixth-year MSU women’s basketball coach nervous because she knew the number wasn’t indicative of how good Northwestern was. The second was the fruit of MSU’s 54-45 victory Wednesday night, which marked the Spartans’ 10th-straight season of 20 wins or more. “Those are always important numbers and you know how important it is to get there,” Merchant said.
It might have been more challenging than they were expecting, but the Spartans pulled out a much-needed 54-45 win against Northwestern at home Wednesday night.
For the second week in a row, the MSU women’s basketball team will take the Breslin Center floor one day following a highly-anticipated men’s matchup with a winning streak against a conference foe on the line.
The emotions were difficult to hide on both sides. For the visitors wearing green it was disappointment.
_Ann Arbor, Mich. – _Now that was how a rivalry game should be. Despite 21 points in a heroic effort from guard Jasmine Thomas in the senior’s final regular season match up with archrival Michigan, it wasn’t enough to end her Spartan career undefeated against the Wolverines. Michigan (19-6 overall, 8-4 Big Ten) broke its 12-game losing streak to MSU on Sunday afternoon with a dramatic 70-69 win in front of a sellout crowd at Crisler Center.
The Breslin Center crew had yet to finish using their leaf blowers to clear away popcorn, wrappers and cups left behind from the Spartan women’s basketball team’s most lopsided conference victory.
It was a night in which seemingly everything went right for the Spartans at Breslin Center. That was evident when MSU women’s basketball coach Suzy Merchant summoned Mariah Harris from the bench to check into her first game action since Dec. 16, 2012.
Indiana women’s basketball might be a Big Ten bottom dweller now, but MSU women’s head coach Suzy Merchant doesn’t expect that to last long under the guidance of first-year coach Curt Miller.
Following Sunday’s loss at No. 8 Penn State in arguably the biggest game of the regular season for the MSU women’s basketball team, head coach Suzy Merchant tried to embrace the positives.
Around the same time the Spartans were tipping off against the Big Ten-leading Nittany Lions, Michigan was putting the finishing touches on a 67-56 upset of second-place Purdue, ranked No. 13 — a win that would have been paramount to MSU’s chances of winning the conference this season.