Merchant begins NCAA Tourney talk, Big Ten deserves high ranking
Even in women’s basketball it’s never too early to talk about March Madness. The No. 11 Spartans suffered their third loss of the season at the hands of No.
Even in women’s basketball it’s never too early to talk about March Madness. The No. 11 Spartans suffered their third loss of the season at the hands of No.
With 2.9 seconds left in regulation of Sunday night’s 84-83 win against Indiana, Draymond Green — a junior forward for the MSU men’s basketball team — had every right to be nervous. The No.
It didn’t matter that MSU was a heavy favorite in the game. It didn’t matter that the game never should have been that close.
The No. 25 MSU men’s basketball team defeated Indiana, 84-83, in overtime Sunday at Breslin Center. Senior guard Kalin Lucas led MSU with 26 points while Indiana was led by Christian Watford’s 21 points. The win snapped a three-game losing streak for MSU.
The core of a Final Four team was back: Senior guard Kalin Lucas was healthy, and future hall of fame coach Tom Izzo had turned down an offer from the NBA to come back more determined than ever. Yet somehow Thursday night, that potential dream season, which already had been more rocky than anyone expected, officially became a nightmare.
It was déjà vu for the No. 10 MSU women’s basketball team on Thursday night at Carver Hawkeyes Arena. The Spartans again found themselves with a chance to beat No. 18 Iowa, but again it would take last second heroics.
For the first time in 12 meetings in East Lansing, the Michigan men’s basketball team defeated No. 25 MSU, 61-57, Thursday night at Breslin Center.
Here we go again. The team with seemingly never-ending drama strikes again. This time with the season-long dismissal of junior guard Korie Lucious. To catch you up, the drama surrounding this team began in June, when MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo took some time to ponder a move to the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers.
In the early 1990s the Fab Five — a flashy and talented group of players all in the same class at Michigan — was dominating college basketball while also making certain fashion trends popular. One of those trends was the practice of wearing black socks while playing basketball.
The Spartans blew an eight-point lead with two minutes left in the game. That was going to be the story the last time the No.
Junior guard Korie Lucious has been dismissed from the men’s basketball program, MSU announced Tuesday night.
As of last spring, Russell Byrd didn’t know what it was like to be injured. But nine months after the first of two surgeries on his broken left foot, the MSU freshman guard, who is redshirting this season, is all too familiar with the feeling of being sidelined. “I’ve never been injured,” Byrd said.
“Should Lykendra Johnson be considered a candidate for Big Ten Player of the Year?”
Senior guard Durrell Summers’ defense has been called into question in the past. But something clicked for Summers following the halftime break during the No.
No matter how much size the Golden Gophers put on the court, junior forward Lykendra Johnson and senior forward Cetera Washington refused to be denied from getting to the boards for the No.
Delvon Roe’s excitement was hard to ignore. Less than an hour after the No. 17 MSU men’s basketball team’s 86-76 loss at No.
Standing at 6-foot-1, it looked like junior forward Lykendra Johnson might be outmatched by the height that Minnesota’s women’s basketball team had to offer.
Heading into Saturday’s matchup with No. 14 Purdue in West Lafayette, Ind., junior forward Draymond Green and the rest of the No.
Interested audience members were able to view a different kind of basketball game Saturday night when the Harlem Globetrotters took to Breslin Center’s court.
Led by 20 points and 17 rebound from junior forward Lykendra Johnson, the No. 12 MSU women’s basketball team defeated Minnesota, 66-54. The performance by Johnson is her best of the season, just beating out her 17-point and 17-rebound performance on Jan.