Consistency. Combine it with talent and great things can happen. But consistency has been one thing he women's basketball team (11-10) as lacked this season. “You see flashes (of how good they can be), and now they have to be consistent,” head coach Suzy Merchant said.
EAST LANSING - Team and individual achievements were made on Wednesday for the Spartans. Tori Jankoska, who came into her tenth Big Ten matchup of the season against Indiana, recorded a career-high 28-points en route to a 72-57 victory at the Breslin Center. The senior guard hit 56-percent of her shots from beyond the arc, finishing the game as one-of-two Spartans (11-10, 3-7 B1G) who found themselves with over 20-points scored. Aerial Powers, the Detroit product from Country Day, led the team in field-goal (22) and three-point attempts (10). Her aggressiveness on the offensive side of the floor matched Jankoska's point total with 28. Both players' shot making abilities helped garner MSU's largest conference victory this season.
Down by three-points with seven minutes into the first half following a jumper from the key by Indiana Hoosiers guard Karlee McBride, the shots were immediately converting for the Spartans. MSU went on a 12-0 run to record their second largest lead of the evening before going into halftime with a 39-25 lead at the Breslin Center. Tori Jankoska, the senior guard, was 4-of-6 from beyond the arc to lead the Spartans with 19-points. She was responsible for the final four-points of the half after being fouled after converting a three-pointer. Aerial Powers, the Detroit product, has added 16-points and Becca Mills has recorded four-points, the only three players who have garnered any points in the first 20-minutes. The Spartans are currently shooting 37 percent from the floor (13-of-35), compared to Indiana, who has converted just 32 percent of their shots (9-of-28). Six players have garnered stats in the points column for the Hoosiers, with Karlee McBride leading the team with six-points.
East Lansing, Michigan, known as the home of the Michigan State Spartans, can now be known as one of the elite football hotspots in the country. In a recent ranking list from wallethub.com, a website focused on personal financial resources, East Lansing ranked in as the second-best city in the country for football fans.
After a season sweep at the hands of Maryland, MSU will travel to Rutgers, the Big Ten’s other newcomer, once again looking to get back on track. The game was originally scheduled for 9 p.m.
Kathie Klages, women's gymnastics head coach, is in her 25th season and has served as a coach both on and off the mat for her gymnasts.
This past week electrical engineering senior and swim team captain David Zoltowski was awarded the prominent Churchill Scholarship.
The women’s tennis team is coming off an up and down two-day stretch of play in California against No.
Perhaps the season has not gone quite the way fans had hoped, and after 20 games, head coach Tom Izzo is disappointed as well. He is, however, trying to keep things in perspective. “(I) keep reminding myself we’re 13-7 not 7-13,” Izzo said.
By Mayara Sanches msanches@statenews.com Not many freshman recruited by a Big Ten school get to play much, or even at all, during their freshman year. They are put on the bench, where they sit and watch the great players do their best, hoping to learn from them.
Foul trouble crippled the men's basketball team early against No. 16 Maryland on Saturday. Senior forward Branden Dawson, sophomore forward Gavin Schilling, junior forward Branden Dawson and junior guard Denzel Valentine each picked up two in the first half, and head coach Tom Izzo was forced to turn to his bench sooner than he would have preferred. It wasn't the first time Valentine got himself into early foul trouble this season.
The men's basketball game against Rutgers has been rescheduled to Thursday at 6 p.m. according to a statement released by the athletic communications department at Rutgers. The game was originally scheduled for Tuesday at 9 p.m.
With a potentially historic snowstorm looming, the men's basketball team's Tuesday 9 p.m. game against Rutgers has been postponed indefinitely, Rutgers men's basketball announced through its Twitter handle. To avoid the storm, head coach Tom Izzo said the men's basketball team moved its flight up to 3 p.m. Rutgers announced the game had been cancelled about an hour before MSU was scheduled to leave East Lansing.
Trae Waynes, the former MSU standout, will get another opportunity to further showcase his skills as a defensive back before the NFL Draft in the 2015 Quicken Loans All-Star Football Challenge. Scheduled to participate in the Hands Competition, Waynes is set to take on Landon Collins (Alabama) and Quinten Rollins (Miami OH.) on Friday, Jan.
Pat Narduzzi's success as a defensive coordinator for the Michigan State Spartans was so renowned that his head coaching search didn't stop at just Colorado State and Pittsburgh.
MSU hockey (9-11-2, 3-3-2-2 Big Ten) is coming its best weekend of the 2014-2015 season after picking up two wins against Ohio State (7-13-2, 2-6 Big Ten) on Friday and Saturday.
In the annual annual Jan Howard Memorial Breast Cancer Awareness Meet the MSU women's gymnastics team the Minnesota Golden Gophers on Saturday evening. The Spartans began the night on the vault with junior Nicola Deans coming in first in the competition, while MSU was on the vault, Minnesota had a quality team performance on the bars.
MSU (13-7 overall, 4-3 Big Ten) put on yet another puzzling performance, this time in a two-point loss to Nebraska. After scoring the game’s first points, the Spartans trailed the rest of the way, as Nebraska’s Terran Petteway and Shavon Shields delivered a one-two punch that MSU just couldn’t handle.
The women’s basketball team defeated Wisconsin, 77-71 , in a very close game Sunday. With a lot of fight, the team was able to break through the tight Wisconsin defense and bring home the win, after coming back from 85-56 loss against Maryland on Thursday . “That was a rough one,” freshman Kennedy Johnson said.
With 7:26 minutes remaining in the game, it looked as though MSU was set to suffer its second consecutive blowout conference loss on the road. It was at the 7:26 mark when Nebraska junior guard Terran Pettaway, who had been giving MSU fits all night, sank his third and last 3-pointer to give the Huskers a 58-43 lead.