Syracuse, N.Y. — It was a competitive game for much of the first half, but a late scoring drought by MSU could endanger its Final Four dreams.
We had a team down in Syracuse covering the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight rounds of the NCAA tournament. MSU eventually advanced to the Final Four on Sunday.
If there are tiers when ranking the great coaches in college basketball, Tom Izzo and Rick Pitino would be near the top.
Syracuse, N.Y. -- MSU head coach Tom Izzo will square off against a Pitino-led team for the second time this year, but with a Final Four berth at stake, this one will mean a bit more. The Spartans dropped a home game to Minnesota and head coach Richard Pitino in February, and on Sunday at 2:20 p.m., MSU will face Richard’s father and Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame member Rick Pitino. Pitino’s Louisville Cardinals (27-8 overall, 12-6 ACC) have surged in the tournament, despite the dismissal of guard Chris Jones in late February. The Cardinals escaped in their first tournament game with a two point win over UC Irvine.
A year after losing three key pieces of its puzzle, MSU has clawed its way right back to where its season ended last year. The Elite Eight. An improbable yet not infrequent tournament run has been conducted by upperclassmen.
Syracuse, N.Y. — For a while, it looked as though MSU's free throw woes would be their undoing.
Syracuse, N.Y. Oklahoma never trailed over the first twenty minutes, and at halftime, the Sooners lead the Spartans, 31-27. Oklahoma junior guard and Big 12 Player of the Year Buddy Hield leads all scorers with 11 points, and MSU senior guard Travis Trice follows with 10 points.
One of the biggest reasons for MSU hockey’s late-season success was its ability to find contributions from different players every week.
Head coach Tom Izzo said he didn't have a comment when asked about MSU earning the No. 7 seed in the NCAA Tournament an hour after falling to Wisconsin in the Big Ten tournament, but during his weekly press conference on Tuesday, he said the Spartans deserve to be underdogs this season.
The men’s baseball team (11-11 overall, 1-2 Big Ten) is entering a key stretch of the season and it has came out the gates swinging. Spending the first month plus playing baseball on the road in the south the team returned to East Lansing to play its first two games at home. Before the team takes on No.
The Spartans are reaffirming their role as the team that kicks into gear late in the season with versatile performances and unexpected victories. Now, MSU must defeat Oklahoma to advance to the Elite Eight
The softball team will try and get back on the winning track in their home opening series this weekend.
Cross country senior Leah O'Connor has become one of the most decorated athletes in MSU history. But the runner, who most recently snagged the national NCAA indoor mile title, has come a long way in the last five years.
The MSU Women’s Club Water Polo team is ranked 5th in the nation, as of the March 12 Collegiate Water Polo Association poll.
By Matthew Argillander margillander@statenews.com The men's baseball team has struggled to find offensive consistency in their young season but if the game against Central Michigan on Tuesday is any indication of what is to come the team may of found a 'home-remedy'. In the Spartans first home game of the year the offense got out to a hot start scoring three runs in the first and they never looked back en route to an 8-3 win over the Chippewas. Senior catcher and first baseman Blaise Salter who had two RBI's in the game said that the team needed this performance after struggling to get the offense going as of late. "We came out to a hot start with the first inning hitting, we needed that we kind of struggled a bit," Salter said.
It was almost the story of two seasons for MSU hockey, or even the story of two years.
Denzel Valentine’s favorite memory with Bryn Forbes didn’t take place on the hardwood. It took place on grass.
The team competes in the Midwest Collegiate Sailing Association, a subsection of the Intercollegiate Sailing Association. Last weekend, they traveled to Notre Dame for the Freshman Icebreaker regatta, and place No.
Fifteen years later, Mateen Cleaves is still invested in Spartan basketball.