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Spartans win with team effort
Three players helped in their own way in Saturday’s win against Illinois.
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Women clinch share of Big Ten title
The No. 11 MSU women’s basketball team has clinched at least a share of the Big Ten championship.
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Lucas, Spartans beat Illinois, 61-57
In a battle between two Big Ten teams fighting for their NCAA tournament lives, the MSU men’s basketball team beat Illinois, 61-57, Saturday at Breslin Center.
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GameDay in East Lansing
For the first time since 2007, ESPN’s College GameDay visited East Lansing and Breslin Center on Saturday.
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Women claim comeback win against Wildcats
After snatching first place in the Big Ten and selling out Breslin Center last week, the No. 11 MSU women’s basketball team feared it would fall into a trap against Northwestern.
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Saturday Spotlight
When ESPN decided before the season that it would send its College GameDay crew to East Lansing this Saturday, I doubt anyone at the network thought they would be seeing a game between two teams fighting to make the NCAA Tournament in MSU and Illinois.
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Spartans eye Fighting Illini in rematch
The MSU men’s basketball team and Illinois have taken a similar path up to this point. When ESPN’s College GameDay selected East Lansing as its Feb. 19 location, they expected different storylines.
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Women prep for Wildcats, Jaeschke
In the past week, the No. 11 MSU women’s basketball team has taken first place in the Big Ten and sold out Breslin Center for the first time. To say the team is on an emotional high would be an understatement.
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Despite loss, many positives from OSU game
It was a valiant effort, but the MSU men’s basketball team simply ran out of gas. Playing with a severely limited junior forward Delvon Roe and an invisible senior guard Durrell Summers, the Spartans still nearly escaped Columbus, Ohio, with a monumental victory. Yes, the Spartans are just three games above .500, but there were so many positives to take out of Tuesday’s 71-61 loss to No.
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Buckeye Bummer
Columbus, Ohio – The MSU men’s basketball team fell to No. 2 Ohio State, 71-61, on Tuesday night at Value City Arena. MSU falls to 14-11 overall and 6-7 in the Big Ten.
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Merchant still excited from Sunday
One day after a game where No. 11 MSU women’s basketball team sold out Breslin Center for the first time in women’s basketball history, MSU head coach Suzy Merchant took the podium for her weekly Monday morning press conference, all smiles.
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Spartans look to stop Sullinger, guards
After beating Penn State last Thursday, junior forward Draymond Green and other members of the MSU men’s basketball team said they were looking forward to taking on undefeated and No. 1-ranked Ohio State Tuesday.
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Spartans, Buckeyes each hold advantages in matchup
Ohio State and MSU matchup broken down.
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U-M falls to Spartans at Breslin, 69-56
Coming out on top of its in-state rival in a collective team effort, MSU (22-3 overall, 10-2 Big Ten) controlled the game against the Wolverines (14-10, 7-5), winning, 69-56.
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Home cookin'
The MSU women’s basketball team felt the impact of the first sell-out crowd in the history of the program long before the opening tip Sunday.
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MSU's strength too much for Wolverines
Following the MSU women’s basketball team’s 69-56 win over Michigan on Sunday afternoon at Breslin Center, U-M head coach Kevin Borseth said there was one glaring difference between the two teams. “We could not contend with their strength,” Borseth said.
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Spartans beat Wolverines in front of record crowd, 69-56
For the second time this season, the No. 11 MSU women’s basketball team beat Michigan, 69-56, in front of a sold-out crowd at Breslin Center.
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Spartans play the Spartan way
For the last three weeks, nothing about the MSU men’s basketball team jumped out at you and said, “Now that is Spartan basketball.” Quite the opposite, fans were leaving games or turning off the TV wondering what happened to a program that has developed a reputation for running teams to death while also physically beating the living daylights out of them just for good measure.
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Green’s triple-double sparks Spartan win, 75-57
A triple-double from junior forward Draymond Green led the MSU men’s basketball team to a 75-57 defeat of Penn State on Thursday night at Breslin Center.