The women’s basketball team’s return to form on offense happened with the subtraction of a key player on Sunday — junior guard Kiana Johnson.
Two days after sitting in the locker room with tears in his eyes after losing to Michigan, senior guard Keith Appling was nearly all smiles at Monday’s press conference. But just because he was wearing a smile doesn’t mean the pain of MSU’s 80-75 loss has gone away. “That’s a game not only myself, but my teammates wanted that win very badly,” Appling said.
It doesn’t get any easier from here on out. Following the No. 7 MSU men’s basketball team 80-75 “loss to No.
After Thursday’s loss to Illinois, the women’s basketball team had no answers for the two-game slump.
Two days after sitting in the locker room with tears in his eyes after losing to Michigan, senior guard Keith Appling was nearly all smiles at Monday’s press conference.
Keith Appling is tough, but he’s not Superman. The senior guard fought his way through 37 minutes in the No.
When MSU fans were sulking after the 80-75 loss to No. 21 Michigan, Tom Izzo took the podium to address the heartbreaking game. “In the 30 years I’ve been here, I’ve never been more proud of a team,” he said. Wait, what? MSU just dropped a game against their rival to fall behind in the Big Ten title race, and he used the word “proud?” Well, as weird as it seems to say after losing such a marquee game, he’s right on the money. There is no question the Wolverines deserved to win Saturday’s game — they hit all the shots when they needed to in front of the delirious Breslin Center crowd. Yet at the same time, the Spartans took a few steps in the right direction without two of their biggest players. Missing two starters in Adreian Payne and Branden Dawson, Izzo was forced to play some guys who usually only see the court during warmups. Besides Gary Harris’s 27 points and Keith Appling’s double-double, freshman guard Alvin Ellis was the bright point during a loss at the hands of the Wolverines. To be honest, Ellis looked like anything but a first-year player.
For some Harlem Globetrotters fans, it’s the power of the tradition that keeps them coming back.
Career games from freshman guard Tori Jankoska and redshirt junior center Madison Williams made the difference for the women’s basketball team Sunday afternoon.
Junior center Madison Williams was the difference for MSU in the first half. After missing two of the previous three games, she blocked a career-high six shots in 10 minutes of action, spurring a 13-0 run to help the Spartans take a 37-32 lead over Ohio State on the road at halftime.
Sophomore guard Gary Harris and senior guard Keith Appling might have carried the No. 3 MSU men’s basketball team as far as they could Saturday night, but it was the unsung heroes that nearly pulled the game out. Players like junior guard Russell Byrd, freshman guard Alvin Ellis and freshman forward Gavin Schilling stepped up and mad big plays to keep the Spartans in it. “I had some guys who stepped up,” head coach Tom Izzo said.
At times it was ear-splitting at Breslin Center, as the MSU faithful saw their No. 3 Spartans control the better part of the game against the No.
You can probably hear it from wherever you are sitting, but the fans at Breslin Center like what they’re seeing against their No.
The Breslin Center was electric nearly ten hours before tip-off as ESPN’s College GameDay returned to East Lansing for the first time since 2011.
Before he was an analyst on ESPN’s College GameDay, Jalen Rose spent his college days playing for one of Michigan’s greatest teams. Now, with the show heading to East Lansing, Rose is spending some time back in enemy territory, and MSU fans are making sure he knows it. “People are going to say stuff, or say ‘Hey Jalen, what you doing up here?’ or remind me of games where they won or when they yelled things at me,” Rose said while meeting with the media on Friday.
No ancient language had a word for blue. Instead, they just referred to the color as a shade of black, or in some instances, green.
While watching TV clips from MSU’s game against Indiana on Thursday, junior forward Branden Dawson let his anger get the best of him — and his right hand.
Same story, different day. In a virtual repeat of Sunday’s 66-54 loss against Penn State, the women’s basketball team (12-7 overall, 4-2 Big Ten) could not maintain a consistent level of effort for 40 minutes of basketball, falling to Illinois (9-10, 2-4) 61-51 despite leading 33-25 early in the second half.
The women’s basketball team leads Illinois 28-25 at halftime. Mills was the primary source of offense for the Spartans early, scoring MSU’s first seven points.
While watching TV clips from their game against Indiana Thursday, junior forward Branden Dawson let his anger get the best of him.