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Izzo dealing with struggling Appling, Dawson
Keith Appling has been one of Tom Izzo’s most consistent players at both ends of the floor for most of the season.
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The Girls' Scouts
They are former star players, team captains and all-area performers. They know the tendencies of the Big Ten’s top teams and players.
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Women's basketball loses to Ohio State, 67-60
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.
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Men’s basketball plays “fat and sassy” in losses
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.
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Difficult road lies ahead for women's basketball team starting with trip to Ohio State
There will be no rest for the weary MSU women’s basketball team as it concludes the 2012-13 regular season.
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Men's basketball falls to Ohio State, 68-60, in Columbus
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.
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Men's basketball leads Ohio State, 31-25, at half
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.
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Thomas steps up play as MSU career nears its end
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.
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MSU: 10th-straight season with 20 wins or more
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.
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Women's basketball picks up much needed win against Northwestern
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.
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Indiana wins starting lineup battle in 72-68 MSU loss
East Lansing’s first top-five matchup didn’t go the way Spartan fans had hoped, and now MSU looks to pick up the pieces.
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Spartans fall to No. 1 Indiana, 72-68, at Breslin Center
It was the first time two top-five teams had ever played in East Lansing, and by the time it was over Tuesday night’s tilt between the Spartans and Hoosiers had become a classic.
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MSU to play Northwestern, try to bounce back from U-M loss
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.
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Men's basketball trails No. 1 Indiana, 36-30, at halftime
The stakes were already high, a late season battle for first place in the Big Ten, but there was extra juice in Breslin Center on Tuesday night.
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MSU fans line up in droves before IU game
As the scattered remains of Jimmy John’s wrappers and Little Caesar’s Pizza boxes tumbled in the bone-chilling wind across the snow-covered lawn, hundreds of students wrapped around Breslin Center in excitement for the highly-anticipated No.
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Spartans prepare for rematch against Indiana
Close, but no cigar. Three weeks ago, this was the overarching message after the then-No. 13 MSU men’s basketball team left Assembly Hall with a 75-70 loss to then-No.
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Key matchups in Top-5 showdown
For the first time in history, the MSU men’s basketball team will host a top-five matchup, as the No. 4 Spartans (22-4 overall, 11-2 Big Ten) square off against No. 1 Indiana (23-3, 11-2) in front of a national television audience (7 p.m., ESPN).
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Double Trouble
With a difficult stretch of games during the next week, the No. 8 MSU men’s basketball team saw an opportunity this weekend to hone some of its shortcomings against Nebraska.