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.
Following an up-and-down start to the season, all it took was a little warm weather and sun for the MSU women’s basketball team to come to life.
In a game with 22 lead changes and 12 ties, the No. 25 MSU women’s basketball team finally broke through late in the second overtime, earning a hard-fought 93-90 double-overtime win against Oklahoma State to win the Lucaya Division of the Junkanoo Jam on Saturday night in Freeport, Bahamas.
Tom Izzo became the winningest coach in the history of MSU men’s basketball Saturday as the Spartans routed Massachusetts 106-68 in the third place game of the Legends Classic at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, N.J.
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.
The No. 25 MSU women’s basketball team found itself down 11-2 early in the first half Friday against George Washington. But from there, the Spartans roared back, outscoring the Colonials 76-36 the rest of the way to pick up a 78-47 win in the Junkanoo Jam in Freeport, Bahamas.
Draymond Green and the rest of the MSU men’s basketball team know what it could mean. For years, head coach Tom Izzo has been harping to his players in what he deems the “What have you done for me lately?” society of college basketball that it’s been God-knows-how-long since the Spartans won an early-season tournament.
The script couldn’t have been drafted more suitably. The day MSU men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo tied his predecessor Jud Heathcote with 340 wins at MSU, the coach who led the Spartans to the 1979 national title was inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame in Kansas City, Mo.
Suzy Merchant’s biggest concern for her No. 21 MSU women’s basketball team entering Sunday was defense.
Allyssa DeHaan always gets the loudest ovations when the MSU women’s basketball team’s starting lineup is announced.
He’s a 15-year head coach with four National Coach of the Year Awards, an unprecedented five Final Fours in nine years, a national title and more than 300 wins to pad a Hall of Fame résumé.
Following Tuesday’s grind-it-out victory against Gonzaga, the No. 2 MSU men’s basketball perhaps showed some signs of let-up in Friday’s 75-62 victory against Toledo.
Despite facing a double-digit deficit in both the first and second halves, the MSU women’s basketball team battled back time and time again.
The MSU women’s basketball team announced that sophomore forward Courtney Schiffauer will miss the remainder of the season after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee Tuesday.
Junior guard Durrell Summers hit the go-ahead 3-pointer to become the hero. In the waning minutes of the game, junior guard Kalin Lucas stepped up and made an acrobatic layup to extend the lead.
Despite the season only being two games old, the No. 21 MSU women’s basketball team already has seen its fair share of adversity.
It seemed like it wasn’t meant to be. Every time the No. 2 MSU men’s basketball team tied Gonzaga — or even pulled within a few points — the Bulldogs kept the Spartans nipping at their heels. Then, after all the ties (three), one-point deficits (five) and two-point deficits (four), Durrell Summers took the game into his own hands.
Draymond Green recently was watching ESPN when the network started showing the greatest college basketball games involving mid-major schools
Detroit — After a season-opening loss to Dayton on Friday, the No. 10 MSU women’s basketball team was looking at something of a must-win Sunday against Detroit.
The No. 10 MSU women’s basketball team didn’t open its season the way it planned, losing 77-74 to Dayton on Friday at University of Dayton Arena.