If you were to ask people to make a list of the best items needed for the Izzone Campout, their answer might lead you to believe they were sleeping somewhere other than Munn field.
Friday marked the 17th annual Izzone Campout, an event held each year to get students ready for the upcoming basketball season and, for upperclassmen, secure a spot in the notorious cheering section; the Izzone.
Midnight Madness, the kickoff to the 2012-13 basketball season will take place beginning at 9:30 p.m. Oct. 12 at Breslin Center.
Cheers echoed across the IM Sports-West court from spectators as more than 60 people faced off against colleagues and friends on opposing teams. The teams included the Monday and Wednesday shifts pulling out a 38-32 victory against the Tuesday and Thursday shifts in the championship round.
Shawn Respert, Clinton Jones and four other Spartan legends were welcomed into the MSU Athletics Hall of Fame on Thursday evening at Wharton Center.
No new information has been released in regards to the two MSU women’s basketball players who have been suspended for the first nine games of the 2012-13 season.
MSU freshman forward Kenny Kaminski will be out four to six months after undergoing successful surgery on his right shoulder on Sept. 7 to repair a torn labrum, according to a release by the MSU athletics department.
MSU women’s basketball head coach Suzy Merchant announced Friday that sophomore guard Kiana Johnson and redshirt freshman forward Akyah Taylor have been suspended for the first nine games of the upcoming season, after NCAA guidelines “related to the receipt of extra benefits” were violated, according to a release by the MSU athletics department. “Both Kiana and Akyah are good student-athletes that made a bad decision this summer,” Merchant said in a statement.
Two MSU women basketball players, Kiana Johnson and Akyah Taylor, are suspended for the first nine games of the upcoming season, according to the Associated Press. MSU officials said NCAA guidelines “related to receipt of extra benefits” were violated. Keep checking statenews.com and future print editions of The State News for more on this developing story.
When electrical engineering freshman Seth Purucker woke up Wednesday morning, he never thought he would be attending all of the MSU men’s basketball games for free this season. But as Izzone tickets went on sale just after midnight on Wednesday, Purucker was one of 20 students who received free tickets from the Student Alumni Foundation, or SAF, and the athletics department after making a half-court shot at the rock on Farm Lane on Wednesday morning.
The MSU women’s basketball team knows where and when they will be playing next year, as the schedule for the 2012-13 season was released Friday.
Even with the dawn of football season mere hours away at MSU, the men’s basketball team has generated some excitement of its own with the release of its schedule for the 2012-13 season.
Even with his history of placing MSU in marquee events, Mark Hollis might trump them all with his greatest scheduling triumph yet.
Just a few months ago, former MSU basketball player Anthony Ianni thought he would follow in the footsteps of his father, Deputy Athletic Director Greg Ianni, and pursue a career in sports administration. That all changed earlier this month when he was appointed by Gov. Rick Snyder to the state’s newly created Michigan Autism Council.
The State News was able to link up with a few former MSU athletes to see what post-East Lansing life has been like for them.
Since the moment he arrived on MSU’s campus, a fire has been burning within Draymond Green. A meticulous broil, the burn fueled the ascent of a chubby, brace-faced kid from Saginaw into the NABC Division I National Player of the Year in four short, but memorable years.
Green, a former MSU basketball player and 2012’s Big Ten Player of the Year, was selected 35th overall by the Golden State Warriors in the second round of the 2012 NBA Draft Thursday night.
The announcement today from ESPN and the MSU Athletics Department that the men’s basketball team will be traveling to Germany for its 2012 season opener has many saying, “Athletics Director Mark Hollis has done it again.”
MSU men’s basketball assistant coach Dwayne Stephens has been elevated to the role of associate head coach, the athletics department announced on Tuesday.
MSU basketball player Derrick Nix was sentenced Thursday to serve 24 hours of community service and pay $853 in court costs and fines before Judge Richard Ball in 54B District Court, according to the Detroit Free Press. After Nix was pulled over at the intersection of Abbot and Lake Lansing roads, Nix was charged with possession of marijuana and operating a vehicle with the presence of drugs and was arrested 12:20 a.m.