SAN DIEGO — When senior forward Draymond Green steps on the floor for the men’s basketball team’s season opener Friday, he knows it will be a moment like he’s never experienced.
While the MSU men’s basketball team is preparing for its first game of the season on the USS Carl Vinson, another group of Spartans will open its season on the court. The women’s basketball team will start its season off in the Iona Tournament, playing its first game against Villanova at 1:45 p.m.
The cherry has been placed on top of head coach Tom Izzo’s recruiting class, following the announcement that five-star Gary Harris recruit will commit to MSU — marking what could be one of the best recruiting classes for Izzo to date. Harris announced he was signing with the men’s basketball team on Wednesday. Harris is the 25th ranked recruit in the nation, and third rated guard according to Rivals.com.
The Spartans trounced Grand Valley State, 75-23, concluding their exhibition season and asserting their position as the team to beat in the Big Ten.
As the MSU men’s basketball team finished its exhibition season with two blowouts of Ferris State last Sunday and Hillsdale on friday, head coach Tom Izzo saw things he liked and things he didn’t like.
The warmups are over. Fans barely had started filing out of Breslin Center on Friday night following the MSU men’s basketball team’s 80-58 win over Hillsdale, and head coach Tom Izzo and the Spartans already had shifted gears.
Coming off one of the strongest seasons in program history that ended with a Big Ten championship, the expectations couldn’t be much higher for the MSU women’s basketball team in 2011-12. In the team’s first exhibition of the season, the No.
The Spartans took care of Ferris State 85-58 on Sunday and now take on a different-look Hillsdale team at 7 p.m. Friday at Breslin Center.
Through the first weeks of practice, one thing really stands out to MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo: his team’s unselfishness. But that unselfishness comes at a strange time, when most of the players haven’t played together all that long, Izzo said. “The neat thing is we’ve had years where we’re selfish — the ball never moved,” Izzo said.
The MSU men’s basketball team released photos of its special camouflage uniforms for the Nov. 11 Quicken Loans Carrier Classic.
Trying to put last season’s struggles it, the MSU men’s basketball team took the floor Sunday for the first time since March, when the Spartans dropped a 78-76 heartbreaker to UCLA in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. During an 85-58 trouncing of the Ferris State Bulldogs in an exhibition at Breslin Center on Sunday, the Spartans were able to get a feel for their team and fans were treated to a preview of what to expect come Nov.
With loads of inexperience, men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo will look for a lot more than usual in his team’s two exhibition games this season.
Men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo confirmed Tuesday that the team will wear a special uniform for the Nov. 11 Carrier Classic in San Diego.
MSU men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo confirmed to the Detroit Free Press on Tuesday that his team will wear a camouflage uniform for the Nov.
Guard Russell Byrd swiftly signed Dan Nye’s men’s basketball team poster.
Although youth — the Spartans feature six freshman or redshirt freshman and three sophomores — might cause some problems this season, it isn’t likely complacency will be one of them.
Tom Izzo is rejuvenated and ready for the new season — so is his basketball team.
With basketball season not far off, Midnight Madness gave MSU fans their first look at the men’s and women’s basketball teams Friday.
Despite losing three captains to graduation, the Spartans aren’t worried about playing as the top dog this season.
President Barack Obama will have a seat on the USS Carl Vinson this Veterans Day to watch MSU men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo’s Spartans take on North Carolina in San Diego, Calif., an Obama spokesman said in an email to The State News on Thursday.