BASKETBALL
Prognosticators
Proggin’ around like nobody’s business, the prognosticators have the 411 on men’s and women’s basketball.
ICE HOCKEY
Abdelkader signs with Red Wings
Justin Abdelkader has had a busy 24 hours. After deciding to forgo his senior season, the MSU hockey junior forward was signed to an amateur tryout with the Detroit Red Wings and made his NHL debut Thursday night against Columbus.
SOFTBALL
MSU softball overcomes Eagles, 4-2
For four innings, things looked grim for the MSU softball team during its game on Wednesday. Eastern Michigan tallied two runs early in the first and second innings, stealing momentum from the Spartans.
BASEBALL
Spartans get revenge in 'must win' game
With a win on Wednesday, the MSU baseball team put a stop to an opponent’s winning streak that the Spartans started.
BASKETBALL
Izzo: Crean one of great young coaches in country
Tom Crean knows what’s ahead. After spending nine years putting Marquette back on the national map, Crean faces a more daunting challenge: rebuilding Indiana’s legacy. He replaces Kelvin Sampson, who resigned before last season ended amid NCAA allegations of recruiting violations.
FOOTBALL
Team making progress in intense scrimmages
Just because it’s spring doesn’t mean the MSU football team isn’t head to toe in pads, duking it out for starting positions in the fall.
ICE HOCKEY
Bryan Lerg signs with Edmonton Oilers
It didn’t take long for Bryan Lerg to find a new home following the MSU hockey team’s season-ending 3-1 loss to Notre Dame on Saturday.
BASKETBALL
Neitzel will participate in 3-point contest
Though his time leading the MSU men’s basketball team has come to an end, Drew Neitzel isn’t finished representing the Green and White.
BASKETBALL
Containment of Wolfpack star forward is key to MSU victory
Three down, two to go. The MSU women’s basketball team heads into the semifinals of the WNIT tonight against North Carolina State with one goal: to win a championship.
BASKETBALL
Marquise Gray to undergo knee surgery; out until June
After tweaking his knee in the last few minutes of a Thursday practice in preparation for Friday’s men’s basketball contest against Memphis, junior forward Marquise Gray clocked just one minute of playing time in the Sweet 16 loss. And it was released today by head coach Tom Izzo that Gray is expected to undergo knee surgery for a torn meniscus.
BASKETBALL
WNIT game attendance is disappointing
Ice hockey — out. Men’s basketball — out. In terms of the postseason, the MSU women’s basketball team is all we have left. The Spartans will play in the semifinals of the WNIT on Wednesday with a change to play in a national championship game.
BASEBALL
Roof brothers reunite as teammates at MSU
From the small town of Paducah, Ky., to the super-sized campus of MSU, junior catcher Eric Roof and freshman shortstop Jonathan Roof always have been on the same team.
BASKETBALL
Lucas' high school coach among MSU fans in Houston
In a sea of burnt orange T-shirts and hats, every so often refreshing waves of green would splash onto the humid streets of Houston.
BASKETBALL
Memphis meltdown
As the clock wound down on MSU’s Sweet 16 loss to Memphis and its season, Tom Izzo took a glimpse into the future. The MSU head coach rotated freshmen guards Kalin Lucas, Chris Allen and Durrell Summers in with sophomore forward Raymar Morgan, junior center Goran Suton and junior guard Travis Walton as seniors Drew Naymick and Drew Neitzel said their goodbyes.
BASEBALL
MSU baseball wins a game, loses a game against Illinois to end opening weekend
After dropping both games of a doubleheader to Illinois on Saturday, MSU baseball coach David Grewe declared Sunday’s twin bill against the Illini as “Survival Sunday.”
BASKETBALL
Spartans unable to overcome early onslaught from Memphis
Early on, it was more of a slam-dunk contest than a basketball game, and unfortunately for the MSU men’s basketball team, they weren’t invited to the aerial circus.
SOFTBALL
After slow start to weekend, Spartans blast Badgers out of park with blazing bats in Big Ten home opener
Somebody had her Wheaties. Senior outfielder Nikki Nicosia tallied a hat trick of home runs, and freshman shortstop Bianca Mejia blasted two out of the park in Sunday’s doubleheader against Wisconsin.
SPORTS
MSU gymnasts pleased with 4th place finish in tourney
It was all about having fun at Saturday’s Big Ten Tournament for the MSU gymnastics team. This was not the same team that showed up to last year’s tournament and left empty-handed with a dead-last, seventh-place finish.
ICE HOCKEY
Seniors have re-established elite legacy
An impromptu Notre Dame victory celebration was well under way Saturday as Bryan Lerg and Chris Mueller stood in the bowels of World Arena following MSU’s 3-1 loss to Notre Dame.
ICE HOCKEY
Icers look ahead to game against CCHA rival Notre Dame
Colorado Springs, Colo. — In the NCAA Tournament projections, it looked like if MSU was going to play a CCHA team with a trip to the Frozen Four on the line, it would be Michigan. Instead, MSU will be facing Notre Dame, a team fresh off an upset of No. 1 seed New Hampshire, at 10 p.m. Saturday.