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Badgers down Spartans, 57-42
Madison, Wisc. — At times, it wasn’t clear what was icier — the 19-degree Wisconsin weather or MSU’s offense.
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Senior smackdown
After four years on the MSU women’s basketball team, senior guard Courtney Davidson ended her regular-season career in record-setting style. Davidson scored a career-high 20 points, leading the team to a 54-46 victory over Illinois on Thursday night at Breslin Center.
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Senior memories
The top Spartan seniors discuss some of the highlights of their basketball careers.
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Naymick, Neitzel excel on, off court
When Drew Neitzel and Drew Naymick walk the length of their home floor on Sunday for senior day celebrations, they’ll be leaving a trail. The trail — of records, statistics, charity work and tenacity — will go down as a culmination of their character, more commonly referred to as a legacy.
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Anderson, Smith in close battle for Big Ten Player of Year
With the Big Ten regular season coming to a close Sunday with a logjam near the top of the league, it’s no surprise to see the same tight race near the top of the individual stat sheet.
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Breakdown
Spartans fans — what is your profession? It could be to grab the foam finger, body paint, rowdy rags, hair dye and Sparty helmet — there’s no other game at Breslin Center quite like this one.
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Team hopes to send seniors out with win
Emotions will be running high for the MSU women’s basketball team when it meets Illinois tonight for its regular-season finale. Not only is position on the line for the Big Ten Tournament, but also it will mark the last home game for seniors Courtney Davidson and Alisa Wulff.
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Spartans expect battle in rivalry game
Every time Tom Izzo travels to Madison, Wis., he takes a number with him. That number — zero — is the amount of victories the MSU men’s basketball head coach has brought home with him on those road trips in the last seven seasons.
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Off the court, on the field
When most people return to their alma mater in hopes of a new career, they trade their current lifestyle for one full of books and term papers. Antonio Smith, on the other hand, decided to swap his basketball shoes for football cleats.
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Rebounds are Spartans' Achilles' heel
When a basketball player misses a shot, every person in the paint is supposed to attack the boards in a fight for the ball, correct? That theory, which MSU women’s basketball head coach Suzy Merchant has described as being far from “rocket science,” has been ignored by her team more often than not.
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Morgan a bright spot heading into tough final stretch
Five wins, 17 losses. It’s no secret – conference road games haven’t been one of the MSU men’s basketball team’s strong points the last three seasons. And the road games won’t get any easier while the team finishes up its Big Ten season, as the Spartans still travel to Wisconsin, Illinois and Ohio State – in three arenas known to rattle the opposition.
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Men take revenge on Iowa Hawkeyes with 66-52 win at home
In the Big Ten race, the MSU men’s basketball team might almost be out — but the Spartans are going into every game like they have everything to play for.
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Izzo receives moment of glory after leading Spartans to milestone victory
The number 300 has a whole new meaning for Spartans fans. Surrounded by MSU administrators, dozens of former Spartan basketball players and his family, MSU head coach Tom Izzo angled his head upward and focused his eyes on one of Breslin Center’s overhead screens. Izzo had just obtained his 300th win Saturday afternoon at the arena.
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Rolling off 4 straight wins, MSU gets derailed
After gaining momentum to put together a train of wins, the MSU women’s basketball team’s streak was halted at four by Purdue on Sunday. The Boilermakers (15-13 overall, 11-6 Big Ten) took revenge and then some against the Spartans (17-12, 9-8) — setting the record straight as they shut down MSU, 69-59, to split the season series.
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Poor offense, rebounding leads to defeat
Murphy’s Law was in full effect for the MSU women’s basketball team Sunday against Purdue
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Men's basketball earns Izzo's 300th win
There seemed to be some extra emotion at Breslin Center Saturday afternoon.
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DeHaan leads MSU past Northwestern
MSU head coach Suzy Merchant had no reason to be “scared to death” going into Thursday night’s game against Northwestern at Breslin Center.
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Bench big factor as Spartans end 2-game losing streak
Mike Kebler hit a jump shot with less than a minute to go Wednesday night, extending the MSU men’s basketball team’s lead against Penn State to 86-47.
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Big Ten Roundup: Struggling Iowa heads to Breslin Center
Iowa comes into Breslin Center with a record of 1-3 in its last four games and — just like any good coach — Todd Lickliter knows what the problem is: defense.
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Determined
It’s 2:30 on a Tuesday afternoon in the Duffy Daugherty Football Building weight room, and less than a dozen MSU athletes are working out. Aisha Jefferson, a 6-foot-1 junior forward on the MSU women’s basketball team, has already been going hard for close to an hour, and the perspiration is building on her forehead.