After consecutive NCAA Tournament runs that ended in defeat at the Final Four, there is one thing on the minds of the MSU men’s basketball players as they prepare for the upcoming season: Finish the job by winning the national championship.
MSU men’s basketball senior guards Kalin Lucas and Durrell Summers were named to the John R. Wooden Award Preseason Top 50 List, the Los Angeles Athletic Club announced Monday
Records released during the weekend indicate differences between the statements of an alleged suspect and victim in an alleged on-campus sexual assault that the county prosecutor said he “believes” involved members of the MSU men’s basketball team.
Athletic officials have yet to comment on how junior guard Korie Lucious’ pleading guilty to one count of reckless driving will affect his standing on the MSU men’s basketball team. Lucious pleaded guilty to one count of reckless driving on Thursday in East Lansing’s 54-B District Court. The charge was reduced from one count of operating while intoxicated, or drunken driving. Both are misdemeanor charges.
Junior guard Korie Lucious pleaded guilty to one count of reckless driving Thursday, according to court documents. Lucious was arrested on suspicion of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated on Aug.
Junior guard Korie Lucious was arrested early Monday morning for allegedly operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, or OWI, according to records from East Lansing’s 54-B District Court.
Junior guard Korie Lucious was arrested early Monday morning for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, according to records from East Lansing’s 54-B District Court.
The two-time defending Big Ten Champion MSU men’s basketball team will be featured on ESPN’s College GameDay twice next season, including a visit to Breslin Center in February.
Former guard Chris Allen has decided to transfer to Iowa State, MSU confirmed Friday. Allen, who would have been a senior for the MSU men’s basketball team, was removed from the team Aug. 3 for failing to meet several obligations laid out by head coach Tom Izzo.
The world of college sports usually is a boring one during the summer months. After March Madness — the most exciting two and a half weeks in all of sports — and spring football are complete, there is not much to look forward to between April and August when it comes to major college sports. However, not only was summer 2010 far more intriguing than most summers, it also will end up playing a significant role in the future of MSU athletics.
For the third time in school history, the MSU men’s basketball team will take on the Chaminade Swords when the two teams play in the opening round of the EA Sports Maui Invitational at 9:30 p.m. Nov. 22 in Maui, Hawaii. It will be the first time the two teams have faced each other since 2005, when the Spartans beat the Swords, 89-67, also at the Maui Invitational.
MSU men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo has been selected to drive the pace car Aug. 15 at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Mich., for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series CARFAX 400, speedway officials announced Thursday.
After a summer of speculation, MSU announced Tuesday that senior guard Chris Allen will not return to the men’s basketball program for the 2010-11 season.
A lot has happened in the last 1,000 days. Three different national champions have been crowned in college basketball, the first non-white U.S. president has taken office and three separate “Twilight” movies have been released, making obsessive girls around the globe decide between Team Edward or Team Jacob. But not once, in all that time, has Michigan defeated MSU in football or men’s basketball, the two biggest college sports in the country.
In Jason Richardson’s nine years in the NBA, he has played for three different teams and three different cities. At every stop along the way, Richardson has been involved in the community, donating his time and money to his own charity, the Jason Richardson Foundation, and others in those cities. But when the former MSU standout returned to Michigan for the annual Jason Richardson Golf Classic on Wednesday, which benefited the United Way of Saginaw County, he said he hasn’t forgotten where he came from.
For some of the early entries, such as No. 1 pick John Wall, leaving school for the NBA was an easy decision. However, not every player who left school early was happy with his decision on draft night.
After going undrafted in Thursday’s 2010 NBA Draft, former MSU forward Raymar Morgan was invited to play for the Washington Wizards in the NBA Summer League. The Wizards will play five games in the league, which runs July 9-18 in Las Vegas. Morgan likely will get the chance to play with John Wall, whom the Wizards picked No. 1 overall in the draft.
MSU women’s basketball head coach Suzy Merchant, a former high school basketball honorable mention All-American, was inducted into the Traverse City Central High School Hall of Fame on Friday.
MSU men’s basketball sports information director Matt Larson said no press conference is scheduled for Saturday. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo would announce his decision Saturday, but later said Izzo may wait until Monday.
MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo met with officials of the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday. After spending more than eight hours in Cleveland, Izzo returned to East Lansing where he told reports he did what he had to do. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that Izzo didn’t accept the job but he didn’t turn it down.