MSU women’s basketball head coach Suzy Merchant inked three recruits Wednesday on National Signing Day, led by Detroit Country Day center Madison Williams, the No. 100 player in the country as rated by hoopgurlz.com.
Defenders aren’t flashy, they rarely make headlines and they certainly don’t tally impressive statistics.
The MSU men’s soccer team’s journey to defend its Big Ten Tournament title begins Thursday.
The MSU football team heads to West Lafayette, Ind., for its final road game of the season Saturday (noon, ESPN). Purdue (4-6, 3-3 Big Ten) is coming off its first win at Michigan since 1966 and will hope to ride the emotions of its senior day.
Although the No. 6 MSU field hockey team hasn’t been to the national semifinals since 2004, this season’s road to the Final Four begins with a very familiar feel.
With nine freshman on the No. 13 MSU hockey team’s roster, most of the rookies don’t know what they are getting into this weekend when the team travels to Yost Ice Arena on Friday night to face No. 6 Michigan.
The MSU football team’s tight end position was considered to be strong when this season began. But early in the year, the talent didn’t seem to be used to its full potential.
The MSU women’s soccer team made its final push for an NCAA Tournament bid Friday, beating No. 11 Ohio State 1-0.
Senior kicker Brett Swenson was named a semifinalist for the Lou Groza Award on Monday, which goes to the nation’s top placekicker.
With five weeks remaining in the college football season, there still is no clear-cut favorite to win the Heisman Trophy.
Junior forward Jantine Steinmetz connected with senior midfielder Floor Rijpma for the go-ahead goal against Michigan on Oct. 25 that lifted the No. 8 MSU field hockey team to its first ever regular season outright Big Ten championship.
Six practices, two games. At 5-5, that’s all the MSU football team and its seniors have left if they don’t win at least one of their final two games to become bowl eligible for the third straight season.
A lot is at stake for the MSU women’s basketball team this season.
The Spartans won the first set Friday against Northwestern, but lost the next three.
Through the exhibition season, the MSU women’s basketball team appears to be as good as advertised.
Ashton Leggett had seven career carries entering Saturday’s game against Western Michigan, only one of those coming this season.
In a 15-minute goal-scoring frenzy Sunday, the MSU field hockey team demonstrated its offensive explosiveness to become Big Ten Tournament champions.
Purdue 38, Michigan 36 — For the first time in 43 years, Purdue walked out of Michigan Stadium with a victory. The Boilermakers (4-6, 3-3) defeated U-M 38-36 after stopping a U-M two-point conversion attempt with just more than two minutes left.
It took two seasons and two heartbreaking losses in the conference semifinals to clinch the Big Ten tournament championship.
In freshman wrestler Dan Osterman’s first collegiate meet, he took first place in the freshman/sophomore division Saturday during the Eastern Michigan Open.