Oxford, Ohio - With fifth-ranked MSU’s league-title hopes hanging in the balance, its talented top line carried the Spartans to a dramatic 4-3 victory over Miami (Ohio) on Saturday at Goggin Ice Arena.Junior left wing Brian Maloney tallied the game-winning goal with 50.9 seconds left.
MSU senior linebacker Josh Thornhill filed his name for entry into the NFL Draft in April. Last season Thornhill led the team with 128 tackles, 93 solo, in 12 games for the Spartans. The 6-foot-2, 235-pound linebacker is projected to go somewhere between the second and forth rounds. Thornhill joins junior running back T.J.
The Spartans’ NCAA Tournament chances remained intact as Alan Anderson stepped to the line and connected on two free throws, giving MSU a 57-54 win against Indiana. Sunday’s win all but wraps up a bid for the Spartans (17-10 overall, 8-6 Big Ten) in the NCAA Tournament.
The MSU baseball team kicked off its season by winning two of three games during their weekend trip to Las Vegas. The Spartans (2-1) defeated UC Santa Barbara 19-14 on Friday in the UNLV Tournament. Twelve of the team’s runs came in the last three innings, seven coming in the last inning. Senior Nick Bates struck out six of the first seven batters he faced on Saturday to help give the Spartans an 8-3 victory over host UNLV. Bates tied his career-high with nine strikeouts in seven innings. On Sunday the Spartans finished the tournament with a 22-15 loss to Creighton.
The MSU women’s basketball team came up with a big win Sunday, just when it needed to.The Spartans (16-11 overall, 6-10 Big Ten) picked up an 80-72 win over No.
Danny Crossman was named linebackers coach and special teams coordinator for the MSU football team Friday. Crossman, 35, served as an assistant coach at Georgia Tech the last three years.
The MSU men’s basketball team made the NCAA Tournament selection committee raise a collective brow Sunday.The Spartans toppled Big Ten-leading No.
When Spartan men’s basketball fans look back to MSU’s 83-65 loss to Indiana on Jan.
The gymnastics team hosts the 13th Annual Country Markett Spartan Invitational Saturday. The Spartans (9-4, 0-2 Big Ten) welcome Illinois-Chicago (8-8), New Hampshire (5-2) and Ball State (10-6) at Jenison Field House. MSU has won the tournament the last two years.
The men’s tennis team begins Big Ten play this weekend. The Spartans (7-2) host No. 2 Illinois (5-1) and No.
Starting a season with 17-straight road games may be a strain for most sports teams, but the MSU baseball team is ready to except the challenge. The Spartans open the season with games against UC Santa Barbara, UNLV and Creighton this weekend in Las Vegas at the UNLV Desert Classic.
MSU men’s and women’s track teams begin the Big Ten Indoor Track and Field Championships on Saturday and Sunday.
The Spartan women’s basketball team doesn’t want to enter the Big Ten Tournament on a sour note. To prevent that from happening, MSU (15-11 overall, 5-10 Big Ten) will need to upset No.
The women’s golf team heads to Florida this weekend to host the Central District Classic. The tournament features 14 teams, including six ranked teams.
To say Miami (Ohio) has struggled to score in recent contests against MSU is quite an understatement - the RedHawks’ last four games against MSU have been exhibitions of complete offensive futility. Never before, in 60 years of MSU hockey, had the Spartans shut out the same opponent four times in a row until thwarting Miami the past two years.
Most of the talk in MSU’s locker room this week centered around the team’s impending series against Miami (Ohio). But a close second in conversation material has been Olympic hockey, which started its medal round Wednesday.Many Spartan players are rooting for a United States versus Canada matchup, which won’t happen until Sunday’s gold or bronze medal games - if at all.
MSU recruit Corey Potter, upon returning from Siberia, both verified and discredited the mental image most Americans have about the frosty central Russian region. “It was really cold, but it wasn’t that bad,” said Potter, who signed a National Letter of Intent with MSU in November.
The Spartan men’s basketball team begins a crucial five-day span tonight, when it hosts Minnesota. MSU (15-10 overall, 6-6 Big Ten) plays three games against the Big Ten’s best - beginning with surprising fifth-place Minnesota (14-9, 7-5) at 7 p.m. Spartan head coach Tom Izzo said the upcoming week will play a major role in determining MSU’s NCAA Tournament fate. “It’s no question that this week will pretty much determine our NCAA Tournament future,” Izzo said.
College basketball players aren’t normally adored by hometown fans when they’re 13 years old.But Rick Rickert is an exception.
The MSU women’s track and field team has acquired new help in the throwing department. Amy Wabaunsee, a physical education teacher at Lansing’s Immaculate Heart of Mary-Saint Casimir, was hired by women’s head coach Angela Goodman earlier this season to coach the throwers. Wabaunsee’s employment was made public Tuesday and Goodman said her addition to the team has been positive thus far.