Bench big factor as Spartans end 2-game losing streak
Mike Kebler hit a jump shot with less than a minute to go Wednesday night, extending the MSU men’s basketball team’s lead against Penn State to 86-47.
Mike Kebler hit a jump shot with less than a minute to go Wednesday night, extending the MSU men’s basketball team’s lead against Penn State to 86-47.
Iowa comes into Breslin Center with a record of 1-3 in its last four games and — just like any good coach — Todd Lickliter knows what the problem is: defense.
It’s 2:30 on a Tuesday afternoon in the Duffy Daugherty Football Building weight room, and less than a dozen MSU athletes are working out. Aisha Jefferson, a 6-foot-1 junior forward on the MSU women’s basketball team, has already been going hard for close to an hour, and the perspiration is building on her forehead.
The MSU hockey team fared well against top-ranked Michigan the last time the two teams battled, robbing the No. 1 Wolverines of three points. The squads meet again today after playing twice earlier in the season, which included a Spartans shutout in Ann Arbor and a tie at Munn Ice Arena.
Ch-ch-ch-check it out! Wh-wh-wh-what’s it all about? I don’t know; but the prognosticators do!
Oh, how things change when Penn State doesn’t attempt 51 free throws in a game. The MSU men’s basketball team kept the fouls to a minimum and the high-speed to a maximum, defeating the Nittany Lions, 86-49, Wednesday night at Breslin Center.
As the MSU baseball team heads to Florida to begin their season, head coach David Grewe is hoping for a successful and healthy trip. The reason behind that is simple — Grewe likes what he sees in his 2008 Spartans and is ready to test them.
The MSU women’s basketball team will look to extend its winning streak to four games tonight against Northwestern. After alternating wins and losses for much of the Big Ten season, the Spartans have won three straight for the first time since late November.
The season’s women’s Big Ten race is turning into a mad dash. Usually by now there are about two or three teams that have any chance at first place and have anywhere from zero to two losses. Not this year.
As captain of the MSU hockey team, Bryan Lerg pulls double duty — to put it lightly. That “C” sewn on his jersey takes hard work.
After two straight losses and a locker room full of hung heads, maybe all the MSU men’s basketball team needs to bounce back tonight against Penn State is a little magic.
It’s official — MSU women’s basketball head coach Suzy Merchant has put her foot down once and for all. She will not, under any circumstance, allow any of her players to perform in an ill-advised fashion.
MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo had much to say at his weekly news conference Monday, but there was one significant word that echoed — turnover. Coming off the first back-to-back losses of the season at Purdue and Indiana last week, Izzo said he spent the rest of the weekend reviewing what the No.
The MSU softball team shone as bright as the Florida sun during its opening weekend, going 4-0 and winning the Seminole Classic in Tallahassee, Fla.
The MSU women’s basketball team pummeled Penn State on Sunday afternoon at Bryce Jordan Center, notching their first win in the teams’ 13-year series history.
So you throw him under the bus until his team starts prevailing, then loudly chant his name like nothing ever happened? Uhhh … Indiana fans, I don’t get it.
The MSU wrestling team is still searching for its first conference win after dropping yet another close dual meet on Friday.
For five years, Lawson Ice Arena in Kalamazoo perplexed the MSU hockey team. Saturday’s game would hold the answer to the riddle for the Spartans, who defeated Western Michigan 4-2 — the first win on the Broncos’ ice since 2003.
Boy, this team is tough to figure out. From individual and team standpoints, the MSU men’s basketball team is erratic, to say the least.
Bloomington, Ind. — Problems are not being corrected. Nineteen turnovers, 9 assists — not exactly a statistic MSU men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo can stomach anymore.