While the Lansing area has benefitted from Johnson’s success and outreach, the former scrappy guard from Sexton High School praises his hometown as well.
With senior center Marcus Bingham Jr.'s departure last month, Michigan State is tasked with adding more size after Marble's decision to transfer.
MSU alumna Aerial Powers made her return to Michigan State;.
"I look at it and I think sky’s the limit, I can overcome and accomplish anything. … If I feel like I can’t do something or I’m not motivated, I look or tap on my left leg and I remember that this tattoo is here so I Can Too.”
Michigan State's Nia Clouden is the final player taken in the first round of the WNBA Draft as she makes her way to the Connecticut Sun.
It’s not necessarily something we think too hard about before we speak.
The Spartans will now begin the search for someone to fill Associate Head Coach Dwayne Stephens' role as the offseason starts shortly.
Michigan State guard Max Christie will enter his name into the NBA Draft, retain eligibility.
Bingham joins fellow senior Gabe Brown in the NBA draft waters after Brown announced his decision last week. Senior forward Joey Hauser is the only remaining senior yet to decide if he will exercise his extra year of eligibility.
Boyne City Elementary School math and science teacher Erin Mastin hopes to leave a positive impact on her current third-grade class by using sports to teach them how to work together as a team.
According to multiple reports, Gabe Brown is heading to the NBA draft.
She was No. 42 in ESPN's Top-100 list of recruits, Michigan Gatorade Player of the Year and Michigan Miss Basketball.
“Last year, I was mad at my team at the end,” Head Coach Tom Izzo said. “This year, I was proud of my team at the end.”
“The sad part is it wasn't a nine-point game,” Izzo said. “It was a game that went exactly like I hoped it would go.”
Now, the Spartans are left with conflicting feelings of being proud of the performance and the grief that the season is over at the hands of a team that played flawlessly in crunch time.
Michigan State's season comes to an end with a 85-76 loss to Duke.
The game marks Head Coach Tom Izzo's 16th head-to-head matchup with Duke Head Coach Mike Krzyzewski.
“He played about as complete a game as any forward I've had here in a long time, if you look at all the things he did," Head Coach Tom Izzo said.
It certainly wasn’t the prettiest win possible for MSU, but all they could ask for was to be standing after the duel and not picking themselves up off the canvas to make sense of a completed season.
With the win, MSU moves onto the round of 32 to take on second-seeded Duke, who defeated 15-seeded Cal State Fullerton 78-61 earlier on Sunday.