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BASKETBALL

Brothers' reunion fond memory for family, coaches

Nathan Dahlman needed to sit. The excitement of the past few hours, in which he saw his two sons, Isaiah, a senior guard on the MSU men’s basketball team, and Noah, a junior forward for Wofford, play against each other Friday evening had been too overwhelming.

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'We didn't match their intensity'

Although there still are 18 days until Christmas, the MSU women’s basketball team gave Indiana the biggest present it’ll receive this year. Following their big win against North Carolina on Thursday, head coach Suzy Merchant said the No. 22 Spartans played without the same energy, enthusiasm and excitement as they did against the Tar Heels.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

Spartans blow lead, lose 1st Big Ten game

Despite leading by as many as 13 in the first half, the MSU women’s basketball team collapsed in the second half, shooting 21.2 percent and allowing Indiana to grab a late lead it would never relinquish in a 68-63 loss to the Hoosiers on Sunday afternoon at Breslin Center.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

An MSU senior moment

In one of the biggest games of their careers, three MSU women’s basketball team senior captains came up huge for MSU. It started with forward Aisha Jefferson’s hustle and tenacity in the first half.

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Rivalry with Carolina continues tonight

A rivalry has been developing between the basketball programs at MSU and North Carolina the past few seasons. Tuesday the Tar Heels men’s basketball team continued its dominance by beating MSU for the third time in the past two seasons.

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Women's hoops offers free tickets

The MSU women’s basketball team announced Wednesday that fans who show their MSU Federal Credit Union credit/debit card at the Breslin Center ticket office today will receive two free tickets to tonight’s 8:30 p.m. game between No. 22 MSU and No. 4 North Carolina.

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Spartans fall to Tar Heels after poor 1st half

It has become all too predictable. Each time the MSU men’s basketball team has met North Carolina on the national stage in recent history, the Tar Heels have had their way with a Spartans team that routinely has appeared bewildered and overmatched.

MEN'S BASKETBALL

Spartans rebound after upset loss

The No. 2 MSU men’s basketball team split a pair of weekend games at the Legends Classic in Atlantic City, N.J., bouncing back with a convincing win Saturday against Massachusetts after being upset by Florida on Friday.

MEN'S BASKETBALL

Gators upset Spartans in Legends Classic, 77-74

Conventional wisdom says a basketball team can’t win a game committing 22 turnovers. Friday night, the No. 2 MSU men’s basketball team did everything it could to buck conventional wisdom – making 53 percent of its shots, out-rebounding Florida by 16 and holding the lead for much of the second half.