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Thomas shines in close road loss to Michigan
The emotions were difficult to hide on both sides. For the visitors wearing green it was disappointment.
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Spartans trump Nebraska, 73-64, maintain momentum after U-M game
Coming off one of the biggest victories of the season against No. 4 Michigan, the talk of practice this week for the No.
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Women's team falls to Michigan on road
_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.
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MSU up on U-M women's team at halftime
Michigan standout sharpshooter Kate Thompson hit her first four shots, including three 3-pointers to help the Wolverines jump out to an early seven-point lead about seven minutes in. Thompson cooled off though and the energy of the opening tip died down at Crisler Center to allow MSU to run off 11 straight points and take a 22-19 lead. Behind senior guard Jasmine Thomas’ team-high 11 points, MSU leads U-M 32-28 at the intermission.
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MSU looks for 13th-straight win against rival Wolverines
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.
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Balanced attack helps propel women's basketball to blowout win against Indiana
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.
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How they did it
On Tuesday, The State News published five keys for the Spartans to win the first ever top-10 clash with the rival Wolverines. The No. 8 MSU men’s basketball team (21-4 overall, 10-2 Big Ten) dominated No. 4 Michigan (21-4, 8-4) from start to finish, winning 75-52 in front of a frenzied crowd of 14,797 in attendance. Here’s how MSU fared when it came to the pregame keys.
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MSU-UM game brings back memories for former players
The last time Mateen Cleaves took the floor against Michigan, he left a lasting impression not soon forgotten.
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Column: MSU sends message with blowout win
It might have been the first time the MSU and U-M’s men’s basketball programs met as a pair of top-10 teams, but it certainly didn’t feel like it.
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Freshmen face-off
The talk began months ago, back when the ink dried on their letters of intent. The greatest University of Michigan freshman class since the Fab Five.
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Women's basketball dominates Indiana, 72-42, at home
It was a night in which nearly everything went right for the Spartans at Breslin Center. That was evident when Mariah Harris scored five points on her first two touches of the night.
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Column: Men's basketball played as great as they wanted to in win over Michigan
With a crowd of media surrounding him near his locker late Tuesday night, Derrick Nix was asked a question he knew was coming. Given the events that had just transpired, it was inevitable. “How great can you guys be?”
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Breslin Beat Down
Thirteen seconds. That’s all it took. Thirteen seconds. That’s how quickly MSU scored to take the lead.
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Hot shooting lifts MSU to 38-24 lead over Michigan at halftime
The No. 8 MSU men’s basketball team (20-4 overall, 9-2 Big Ten) made an astounding 53.3 percent of its shots in the opening half to take a 38-24 lead into halftime against No. 8 Michigan (21-3, 8-3).
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Women's basketball looks to bounce back against Indiana
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.
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Live chat: MSU men's basketball versus Michigan
Follow along with our live chat from Breslin Center as the No. 8 MSU men’s basketball team takes on the No. 4 Michigan Wolverines in a top-10 showdown.
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Trice to miss Michigan game due to concussion-like symptoms
The Spartans will have to square off against their in-state rivals a man down tonight, as MSU head coach Tom Izzo confirmed Travis Trice will miss his third straight game.
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Lines start early at Breslin Center for MSU-Michigan showdown
As the No. 8 MSU men’s basketball team prepares for its biggest game of the season against rival No. 4 Michigan, MSU students are making preparations of their own on the sidewalks in front of Breslin Center.
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Old rivalry renewed as No. 4 U-M visits MSU
Derrick Nix remembers the first time he played Michigan. More than that, he remembers a lesson he learned in a practice days before it. During the 2009-10 season, then-freshman Nix readied for one the nation’s fiercest rivalries along with Kalin Lucas, Durrell Summers and the rest of then-No.
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Keys to victory
The Spartans and Wolverines have met on the hardwood 169 other times, but never like this, never as a pair of top-10 teams.