An 80-yard touchdown drive with 1:20 remaining helped No. 21 Nebraska (7-2 overall, 4-1 Big Ten) stun the MSU football team (5-5 overall, 2-4 Big Ten) 28-24 Saturday night at Spartan Stadium.
After a number of grind-it-out offensive struggles this season, offensive fireworks were on display as the MSU football team (5-4 overall, 2-3 Big Ten) and Nebraska (6-2, 3-1) head into the halftime locker room tied at 14.
When Tom Izzo looked into the stands Friday night he saw something unusual: his mother wearing a sweatshirt with the opposing team’s colors.
It wasn’t pretty, but the MSU men’s basketball team closed out its exhibition season by knocking off St. Cloud State 62-49 in a lackluster game Friday night at Breslin Center.
It was no nonsense night for the MSU volleyball team on Friday, as they swept Iowa in three sets (25-20, 25-16, 25-18).
It’s no secret that the problem plaguing the MSU hockey team for most of the season has been an inability to score in the first two periods. But not being able to score at all, as was the case on Friday against Bowling Green, is another problem altogether.
St. Cloud State stuck around for much of the first half after hitting four 3-pointers, but the MSU men’s basketball team pulled ahead by as much as 11 to lead the Huskies 33-26 at halftime of the team’s final exhibition game.
Jasmine Thomas knew time was running out. After being everything from a starter to not playing by coach’s decision, Thomas has seen it all during her four years on campus, and with sophomore guard Kiana Johnson suspended and injuries to seemingly the entire roster mounting by the minute, Thomas knows that for the first time, the greatest responsibility for the MSU women’s basketball team’s success falls on her shoulders.
Even after losing two players to injuries for the season in the past week, the MSU women’s basketball team handily defeated Saginaw Valley State 74-35 on Thursday night.
It was Sept. 9, 1995, and Mark Dantonio stepped onto the field at Spartan Stadium for his first game in green and white as MSU’s defensive backs coach under Nick Saban.
Last week in Madison, Wis., the MSU football team showed it wasn’t ready to let its season end.
The MSU volleyball still is looking to do something this upcoming weekend it hasn’t accomplished the whole season: go undefeated in a Big Ten weekend.
Iowa City, Iowa, quickly turned into Heartbreak City for the MSU field hockey team on Thursday, as the Spartans dropped the Big Ten Tournament opener in a 2-1 overtime loss.
As the MSU hockey team returns home this weekend for the first of a home-and-home tilt against Bowling Green, finding a quick start on offense is on a lot of minds. And with the stagnant presence of the Spartans’ offense in the first two periods of games this season, it probably should be.
It was an offensive struggle early, but a surge before halftime started a rout, as the MSU women’s basketball team pummelled Saginaw Valley State 74-35 in Thursday night’s exhibition opener.
At halftime of its first exhibition game of the season, the MSU women’s basketball team leads Saginaw Valley State 35-16.
For junior defender Kevin Cope, the MSU men’s soccer team’s 1-0 loss to No. 2 Akron on Wednesday is a good example of how their season has unfolded.
For the third-straight year, sophomore center Madison Williams will miss the entirety of the 2012-13 season for the MSU women’s basketball team after suffering a torn left anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL.
Although the Spartans’ record may not reflect it, Saturday’s matchup against No. 21 Nebraska will feature a battle of two Big Ten giants.
The game might not count in the stat sheet, but when Gary Harris put on his jersey with the block “Spartans,” emblazoned across his chest for the very first time, it didn’t take long for the novelty to wear off.