With 11 freshmen who saw considerable ice time last year, one would think this year’s MSU hockey team would be experienced entering the season. But that’s not the case.
In its last tournament, the No. 10 MSU women’s golf team shot a program record 8-under-280 en route to a tie for second place at the Lady Northern Invitational.
Head coach Mark Dantonio stressed the importance of moving past the Michigan victory Tuesday at his weekly press conference. Dantonio, dressed in a Detroit Tigers jacket, talked about how the Spartans will have to maintain the intensity that came out of the victory against U-M.
Coming into this season, the No. 8 MSU field hockey team had a steady group of upperclassmen that was expected to lead the way to a promising season.
Head coach Mark Dantonio showed up to his Tuesday press conference sporting a Detroit Tigers jacket that he said was given to him by Tigers manager Jim Leyland in July 2008.
The MSU men’s hockey didn’t score more than four goals in a single game last season. But in Wednesday night’s exhibition game against Western Ontario, the Spartans tallied five goals and the offense was clicking on all cylinders en route to a 5-2 victory in the team’s lone exhibition game of the young season.
Illinois football head coach Ron Zook announced Monday that senior quarterback Juice Williams has been benched in favor of junior Eddie McGee for Saturday’s game against MSU.
Nine new freshmen can be found on the MSU hockey team’s roster this season.
MSU head coach Mark Dantonio said Saturday’s win against Michigan was a “program win.”
Four years ago, MSU women’s golf head coach Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll, then-freshman Natalie Brehm and Brehm’s family sat in the Paul J. Rearick Golf Complex discussing Brehm’s future with the Spartans.
Already down 1-0 against Northwestern University on Saturday and trailing in the second set, the No. 23 MSU volleyball team didn’t want to fall too far behind and risk starting Big Ten play with a 1-3 mark.
As Michigan quarterback Tate Forcier’s overtime pass was tipped in the air Saturday, junior cornerback Chris L.
The No. 20 MSU women’s soccer team bounced back from a late loss Friday by playing No. 12 Purdue to a 1-1 tie Sunday in West Lafayette, Ind.
The No. 8 MSU field hockey team stayed on the winning path this weekend, following last weekend’s pair of home victories with two wins this weekend at Louisville.
For the first time in 21 years, the MSU men’s soccer team has lost its first two Big Ten games of the season.
The MSU men’s and women’s basketball teams will hold their annual Midnight Madness event at 9:30 p.m. Oct. 16 at Breslin Center.
After 162 games, the Detroit Tigers and Minnesota Twins need one more game to decide who will represent the American League Central Division in this year’s playoffs.
The Big Ten saw another exciting weekend as four of the conference’s six games were decided by six points or fewer. Both Wisconsin and Ohio State remained perfect in conference action, while the Badgers and Iowa remained undefeated overall.
Fans and opponents had been used to seeing two different quarterbacks line up under center for the MSU football team this season.
With a roster dominated by underclassmen, it’s fitting that the No. 23 MSU volleyball team would need to turn somewhere for leadership and maturity.