Clutch play by Burke the key to MSU loss to U-M
Two plays: That’s all Michigan guard Trey Burke would need to sink the No. 9 MSU men’s basketball team.
Two plays: That’s all Michigan guard Trey Burke would need to sink the No. 9 MSU men’s basketball team.
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.
The ball was in Trey Burke’s hands as he drove to the rim, for an uncontested and unexpected final minute dunk.
Ann Arbor — The Spartans spent all week saying this meeting with the Wolverines wouldn’t be as lopsided as the team’s first meeting this season, and it proved true in the opening 20 minutes. The Spartans and Wolverines met as a pair of top-10 teams for the second time in three weeks, and the opening half was very different from the first, as the No.
Jasmine Thomas missed the final shot she ever took at Breslin Center in a Spartan uniform.
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Defense and pottery. That’s what the MSU women’s basketball team does for fun.
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.
While most students are counting the minutes until spring break, 14 students have gotten an early jump on the time off.
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.
When Tom Izzo strode to the podium Tuesday, it didn’t take long to realize something was a little different — the man was on a mission.
Keith Appling has been one of Tom Izzo’s most consistent players at both ends of the floor for most of the season.
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.
The past two weeks have been nothing short of a roller coaster ride for Tom Izzo and the No. 9 MSU men’s basketball team.
There will be no rest for the weary MSU women’s basketball team as it concludes the 2012-13 regular season.
It was all Adreian Payne could do in a return to his home state. The Dayton, Ohio native dominated the paint for the majority of Sunday’s contest against No. 18 Ohio State, finishing the game with 12 points and 14 rebounds and asserting himself as one of the Big Ten’s most dangerous weapons.
Tom Izzo often prides the MSU men’s basketball team in its ability to rebound, focusing on it often in practice and understanding its impact on the offense.