It was all Adreian Payne could do in a return to his home state. The Dayton, Ohio native dominated the paint for the majority of Sunday’s contest against No. 18 Ohio State, finishing the game with 12 points and 14 rebounds and asserting himself as one of the Big Ten’s most dangerous weapons.
Tom Izzo often prides the MSU men’s basketball team in its ability to rebound, focusing on it often in practice and understanding its impact on the offense.
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The opening weekend of game action yielded a few lessons for the MSU baseball team. After several weeks of indoor practice, the Spartans (1-1 overall, 1-0 Big Ten) split a pair of games in the first weekend of play in Greenville, S.C., losing 3-2 to Furman on Friday before defeating Northwestern 7-4 on Sunday.
With three games left in the regular season, as well as the Big Ten tournament and NCAA Tournament on the horizon, the final chapter has yet to be written on this year’s MSU women’s basketball team.
Multiple flights and a day’s worth of travel, only to be welcomed by a high of minus 4 degrees. The weather of Fairbanks, Alaska, might make the frigid winters of East Lansing seem tropic, but to Tanner Sorenson, the sub-zero temperature means home.
When the MSU wrestling team takes on No. 10 Central Michigan on Friday night, the feeling will be different than anything the team has experienced this season.
The MSU gymnastics team has high hopes as they travel to University Park, Pa., to take on No. 24 Penn State at 7 p.m. Saturday.
It might have been more challenging than they were expecting, but the Spartans pulled out a much-needed 54-45 win against Northwestern at home Wednesday night.
After an upper body injury plagued Ryan Keller the first half of the season, the freshman forward finally is finding his stride for the MSU hockey team.
East Lansing’s first top-five matchup didn’t go the way Spartan fans had hoped, and now MSU looks to pick up the pieces.
As the indoor track and field schedule nears its conclusion, MSU travels to Geneva, Ohio for the Big Ten Indoor Championships this weekend.
Already holding the title of the most Big Ten Golfer of the Week awards in MSU history, the education senior also is tied for second in conference history — just one award away from the No. 1 spot.
It was the first time two top-five teams had ever played in East Lansing, and by the time it was over Tuesday night’s tilt between the Spartans and Hoosiers had become a classic.
For the second week in a row, the MSU women’s basketball team will take the Breslin Center floor one day following a highly-anticipated men’s matchup with a winning streak against a conference foe on the line.
The stakes were already high, a late season battle for first place in the Big Ten, but there was extra juice in Breslin Center on Tuesday night.
Twenty-eight seasons. Fourteen trips to Alaska. Hundreds of games. Countless players. Few fans are as dedicated as Janeen Geisenhaver.
At Tuesday afternoon’s press conference, MSU hockey players and head coach Tom Anastos finally were able to say they succeeded at the little things last weekend.
Every time the MSU wrestling team hits the mat, the work they’ve put in all season is on display, but they’re not the only people watching their hard work pay off.
Follow along with our live chat as top-ranked Indiana rolls into Breslin Center for a nationally-televised tilt with MSU.