Bell, Pickrel look to step up play in opening round of tournament
The MSU women’s basketball players boarded their flight to College Park, Md., yesterday with three letters on their mind: WTW.
The MSU women’s basketball players boarded their flight to College Park, Md., yesterday with three letters on their mind: WTW.
By this point, Derrick Nix knows what’s on the line.
In the first game of the second round of the NCAA Tournament, the MSU men’s basketball team (25-8) has a commanding 35-18 lead over Valparaiso (26-7)
AUBURN HILLS, Mich.— Returning to the place his childhood team won an NBA championship, this time ready to begin his own run for a title, Keith Appling couldn’t help but smile.
As MSU prepares to play in the NCAA Tournament today at the Palace of Auburn Hills, look back at the team’s regular season in this timeline.
One of the biggest lessons Tom Izzo said he’s learned from his first NCAA Tournament is to prepare not just for his first opponent, but instead for the entire weekend.
When Marist women’s basketball coach Brian Giorgis looks at his team, he sees an interesting comparison to his first-round opponent in the NCAA Tournament this weekend.
Auburn Hills — It was all smiles for Tom Izzo and the MSU men’s basketball team as they arrived at the Palace of Auburn Hills in preparation for their opening NCAA Tournament game today, and while their focus was on the task at hand, a bit of good news about the future made its way down the pike later in the day.
The squeaks of sneakers sprinting across MSU’s basketball practice court suddenly stopped as the 2009 Final Four banner billowed briskly against the wall Monday afternoon.
Go ahead and ask Brandon Wood who he’s rooting for — at this point, nearly everyone else has.
The MSU women’s basketball team is headed to the NCAA Tournament for the fifth-consecutive postseason. “The Spartans who fell to Purdue in the “finals of the Big Ten Tournament on March 10 — were given a No. 5 seed, sending them to College Park, Md., to face No. 12 seed Marist.
The story always reads the same way.
Seventeen hours after Tom Izzo said he wanted to see more film of the Spartans’ first NCAA Tournament opponent before commenting on them, MSU’s head coach made his way back to the very same podium with some bags under his eyes and very possibly the same set of clothes on.
Selection Sunday has come and gone, and the MSU men’s basketball team now knows it will travel less than 90 miles to begin its quest for a third national title.
At last, it’s time to break out the dancing shoes. Following a semifinal exit in the Big Ten Tournament, the No.
As legions of MSU men’s basketball fans made the trip to Chicago, the thoughts of many were tied to a weekend of basketball.
Chicago — As soon as he heard the name, Keith Appling couldn’t hide a look of disgust as he began to shake his head.
Chicago – Few college basketball players are criticized quite like Aaron Craft. Whether it is his rosy red cheeks, his subtly confident personality or even his skin tone, Craft has been the subject of much abuse from fans and media since he arrived at Ohio State.
A rematch of last year’s Big Ten Tournament title game wasn’t without controversy, as a late flagrant foul and a dominant second half from Aaron Craft helped lift the Buckeyes.