The MSU women’s basketball team is headed to the NCAA Tournament for the fifth-consecutive postseason. “The Spartans who fell to Purdue in the “finals of the Big Ten Tournament on March 10 — were given a No. 5 seed, sending them to College Park, Md., to face No. 12 seed Marist.
The story always reads the same way.
Entering his seventh spring as head football coach, the goals largely remain the same for Mark Dantonio and the MSU football team.
Seventeen hours after Tom Izzo said he wanted to see more film of the Spartans’ first NCAA Tournament opponent before commenting on them, MSU’s head coach made his way back to the very same podium with some bags under his eyes and very possibly the same set of clothes on.
It’s a bittersweet ending. Before Sunday’s game, the MSU hockey team was told by head coach Tom Anastos to “empty the tank” Sunday night. They had to play with the awareness that the season rested on the outcome, forcing them to leave it all on the ice.
Selection Sunday has come and gone, and the MSU men’s basketball team now knows it will travel less than 90 miles to begin its quest for a third national title.
It was a mucky hard-fought series at Steve Cady Arena this weekend, but the Spartans couldn’t manage to pull past the No. 3 Miami (Ohio), as a 4-1 loss in the CCHA playoffs sealed the end of the MSU hockey season.
Four Spartans will make their way to Des Moines, Iowa, next weekend after strong performances at the Big Ten Championships in Champaign, Ill.
The MSU softball team didn’t have the weekend it was looking for at the Hoosier Classic in Bloomington, Ind. as the Spartans dropped a pair of games on Saturday prior to the cancellation of both games on Sunday.
A trip to the Golden State last weekend ended with a sweep of Santa Clara for the MSU baseball team.
When the MSU hockey team steps on the ice Sunday night, its season sits on the line for the second time in one week.
As legions of MSU men’s basketball fans made the trip to Chicago, the thoughts of many were tied to a weekend of basketball.
Oxford, Ohio— MSU hockey started Saturday’s CCHA playoff game in a similar fashion as Friday’s win: with a goal by freshman forward Matt DeBlouw from junior linemate Greg Wolfe.
MSU hockey started Saturday’s CCHA playoff game in a similar fashion as Friday’s win: with a goal by freshman forward Matt DeBlouw from junior linemate Greg Wolfe.
Chicago — As soon as he heard the name, Keith Appling couldn’t hide a look of disgust as he began to shake his head.
Chicago – Few college basketball players are criticized quite like Aaron Craft. Whether it is his rosy red cheeks, his subtly confident personality or even his skin tone, Craft has been the subject of much abuse from fans and media since he arrived at Ohio State.
A rematch of last year’s Big Ten Tournament title game wasn’t without controversy, as a late flagrant foul and a dominant second half from Aaron Craft helped lift the Buckeyes.
It was a rematch of last year’s Big Ten Tournament title game and, for 20 minutes, both teams already appeared in championship form.
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The MSU hockey team will take the ice Saturday against Miami (Ohio) for the second consecutive night with hopes of a trip to Joe Louis Arena hanging in sight.