Do players and coaches realize how much a bowl game can mean to a fan? I’m not sure. But I know, (dramatic pause) I owe my life to one. Let me explain. In 1965 the MSU football team was phenomenal.
Apparently new players and a fresh season don’t make much difference - at least not for MSU and Miami (Ohio).The fourth-ranked Spartans blanked Miami 3-0 on Friday and 2-0 on Saturday, extending their defensive dominance over the RedHawks (6-5-1 overall, 4-3-1 CCHA) to four straight games.MSU also shut out Miami twice last January - 1-0 and 5-0 - and the RedHawks haven’t scored against the Spartans in 292:07 minutes of hockey, dating to the first period of a 5-1 MSU win on March 11, 2000.All five games in the streak have been played at Munn Ice Arena.“I’m always surprised we get a shutout,” MSU head coach Ron Mason said.
The MSU wrestling team opened its season Saturday with the MSU Wrestling Open, where nine Spartans advanced to Sunday’s semifinals.
It’s the trip no volleyball team wants to make - traveling to No. 9 Ohio State and No. 13 Penn State on consecutive nights. Only three teams have ever survived the weekend with two wins.
The statistics didn’t look like those of a winning team.But with some unseemly numbers, the MSU women’s basketball teams beat Buffalo 50-42 and UCLA 67-63 to take first in the season-opening Spartan Chevrolet Classic on Friday and Saturday at Breslin Center.The team began the tournament at 8 p.m.
Sophomore cornerback Tyrell Dortch had a lot of time to think as he lay in a Madison, Wis. ,hospital bed for more than two weeks.
Miami (Ohio) rolls into East Lansing tonight with a high-octane offense and one of the CCHA’s premier players in forward Jason Deskins. But the RedHawks (6-3-1 overall, 4-1-1 CCHA), who finished second to MSU in the CCHA last year, were the pupils of a Spartan defensive clinic in the teams’ last meeting.
The MSU women’s basketball team will host the Spartan Chevrolet Classic for the 14th time on Friday and Saturday at Breslin Center. The tournament field includes Buffalo, Liberty, UCLA and MSU. Boston College won the tournament last year, downing MSU 63-61 in the championship game. Before last season’s championship game loss, the Spartans had won the tournament four consecutive years. MSU has advanced to the title game 12 of 13 years, its only first-round defeat coming in 1989 to the eventual champion, Kentucky. The first game sets Liberty against UCLA at 6 p.m.
The No. 15 MSU men’s basketball team has started 2-0 and still has one more exhibition game to tighten things up before the regular season continues. The Spartans play their second exhibition game of the year at 2 p.m.
It isn’t just about the Big Ten anymore. When the Spartans (16-7, 9-7 Big Ten) travel to face No.
Not only did the men and women’s swimming teams defeat another Mid-American Conference team Tuesday against Toledo, but the women’s 200-medley relay broke the pool record with a time of 1:48.55. Going into Toledo, the women’s team had a three-meet winning streak and the team continued its dominance by winning 13 events to defeat the Rockets 192-108. The record setting 200-medley relay team, consisting of junior Kathryn Duncombe, freshman Jessica Henning, junior Heather Wellings and freshman Alicia Copestick, broke the old pool record by .67 seconds. Copestick helped the women’s team in other events as well, swimming on the 400-yard freestyle relay team that won, 3:35.11.
It isn’t officially rivalry week until Grambling and Southern duel it out in the Battle of the Bands, but many big-time rivalries are this week, including Florida vs.
Two Spartan field hockey seniors forwards, Bridget Cooper and Maureen Halstead, were selected to participate in the NFHCA North/South All-Star Game. Halstead was an All-Big Ten second-team selection.
The ink has dried and the letters are sealed. MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo can now call Rochester forward Paul Davis, Detroit Crockett guard Maurice Ager and Arlington (Indianapolis) forward Delco Rowley Spartans. Izzo announced the signings of the three players at an 11 a.m.
Within MSU’s new offensive scheme, the Spartan forwards are darting all over the ice and generating plenty of goals for head coach Ron Mason.But fourth-ranked MSU’s offensive glory doesn’t start and end with centers and wings.
Take away the canyons, anvils and the cartoon attributes, and sophomore wide receiver Charles Rogers and Purdue safety Stuart Schweigert could pass for Wile E.
Any hopes the MSU women’s soccer team had of continuing its season were lost Monday when the NCAA announced the 64 teams that will make up the tournament bracket.But the men’s soccer team still has four days to wait and hope that its season had that little extra spark that would push it into the 48-team bracket.The men haven’t been in the tournament since 1969, though in 1967 and 1968 the team was NCAA co-champions.The goalkeeper for the co-champion teams, MSU’S current head coach Joe Baum, said he believes this team could hold its own against the teams he played on.“I think if you look at our team today, we don’t have any All-Americans, but we’re more solid throughout the lineup,” he said.
Though MSU wasn’t one of the two teams battling for the championship, much of the attention was on Spartan freshman Andrew Formanczyk who took home the Big Ten singles consolation title. Formanczyk won three matches Sunday, and cruised to a 6-2, 6-1 win over Ohio State’s Vince Ng in the semifinals, and a 6-1, 6-3 win over Northwestern’s Jamie Sahara in the finals.
At 11 a.m. today Rochester forward Paul Davis, Detroit Crockett guard Maurice Ager and Arlington (Indianapolis) forward Delco Rowley will sign letters of intent to play for MSU men’s head basketball coach Tom Izzo in 2002.Recruiting analyst Dave Telep of bluechiphoops.com said Izzo’s new gang of recruits rests in line with some of college basketball’s more storied programs.