MSU women’s basketball head coach Suzy Merchant specifically is looking toward juniors Kalisha Keane, Brittney Thomas and Cetera Washington, along with sophomore Lykendra Johnson, to step in and become the new generation of leaders.
For years, the MSU baseball team has been near or below .500 entering Big Ten play, needing a miracle run in the conference to qualify for the NCAA Tournament. But with a 22-6 record for one of the best starts in school history, every win counts toward a possible at-large bid to the tournament in June.
Looking at the MSU softball team’s roster, there’s one thing that sticks out: There only is one senior on the 17-member team.
MSU women’s basketball head coach Suzy Merchant was surprised when senior center Allyssa DeHaan wasn’t selected in the 2010 WNBA Draft last week.
Last season, the MSU football team often lacked the strong running game typically needed for Big Ten success. This spring, head coach Mark Dantonio said a duo of talented sophomores are working on solving that problem.
Early last week, Jacquie Joseph sat in Jenison Field House looking out her office window. Joseph, 47 years old and now in her 17th year as MSU’s softball coach, has won more than 500 games at MSU and, presumably, can stay at the helm for as long as she wants.
Right-handed starter Tony Bucciferro was excellent on the hill for the Spartans through six innings, but racked up five earned runs combined in the seventh and eighth innings as the Spartans lost a late 3-2 lead.
The MSU gymnastics team fell shy of an automatic bid to the NCAA Championships on Saturday, finishing sixth at the NCAA Regionals in Lexington, Ky., but senior Nicole Curler qualified individually for the NCAA Championships on April 22-24 in Gainesville, Fla.
The MSU softball team was able to rebound from a frustrating Big Ten road opener by defeating Indiana 5-2 in Bloomington, Ind., on Sunday.
The MSU women’s tennis hadn’t won a Big Ten match heading into Sunday’s match against Penn State but looked a far cry from the 0-6 conference team it was entering Sunday, getting a gritty 6-1 win that featured two third-set singles match victories.
If you charted the MSU men’s basketball team’s 2009-10 season, it might be off the Richter scale. The peaks and valleys and ebbs and flows were off the charts in a season that might have featured more high-to-low contrast than any in recent memory.
In the spirit of looking ahead, here’s my Preseason Big Ten Power Rankings for next year.
The MSU football team entered spring practice the past two seasons with several injuries to key players and several question marks as to who would step in to fill their place.
Halfway through the Big Ten season, the MSU women’s tennis team still is looking for its first conference victory.
The MSU baseball team went from a midweek nonconference game to gearing up for the annual Crosstown Showdown exhibition — which was postponed because of weather — to mentally preparing for a long road trip against Big Ten foe Minnesota.
It’s not often that Ultimate Fighting Championship cards feature two title fights, but that’s exactly what the fans are getting for the second straight pay-per-view this weekend when UFC 112 emanates from Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, this weekend.
The MSU gymnastics team will have one last chance to make a major impact on the national scene as it prepares for Saturday’s NCAA Regional in Lexington, Ky.
A shot at the Big Ten Championship, several key tournament finishes and an exciting end to one of the most successful seasons in school history are all on the line during the next three weeks for the No. 14 MSU women’s golf team.
Prior to last weekend’s series against Minnesota, the MSU softball team was 2-8 in one-run games, including a February stretch in which it lost four out of five games by 2-1 scores. Fast-forward one week after sweeping Minnesota by scores of 2-1 and 7-6, and the Spartans (16-17 overall, 2-2 Big Ten) have a newfound confidence going into this weekend’s series at Indiana (7-21, 0-2). “We weren’t tough enough, and we weren’t finishing, so we had leads, and then we blew it in the end,” MSU softball head coach Jacquie Joseph said. “We’ve been doing that a lot.
April really is the best month for sports on the calendar.