While the men’s basketball team opened its season in San Diego, the women’s squad did the same on the opposite side of the country.
With President Barack Obama looking on, the MSU men’s basketball team was in awe Friday night. It wasn’t just the president in attendance that shook the team.
Although the MSU men’s basketball team lost the Quicken Loans Carrier Classic on Friday in San Diego, head coach Tom Izzo was proud of his team.
Kinesiology junior Hugo Arevalo wanted to be a part of the historic carrier game. But because the game was being played across the country, Arevalo settled for what he said was the next best thing.
San Diego — In a game that won’t be remembered for the final score, the MSU men’s basketball team lost to No. 1 North Carolina 67-55 in the Quicken Loans Carrier Classic on Friday.
SAN DIEGO — Tom Izzo is known for putting his team through grueling schedules. Today, the men’s basketball head coach is taking his “play anyone, anywhere, any time” motto to an extreme.
San Diego — When most freshmen begin their college basketball careers, there usually is some time for adjustment — a period to get used to the drastic differences between playing in high school and playing NCAA Division I basketball.
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.