Another tough weekend is ahead for the Spartan wrestling team as it takes on No. 1 Penn State on Friday at Jenison Field House.
After two consecutive disappointing home losses last week against weaker competition, the women’s basketball team (13-7 overall, 5-2 Big Ten) regained its rhythm on the road Sunday, defeating Ohio State 82-68.
For sophomore defenseman John Draeger, this season hasn’t gone as smooth as he hoped it would. After playing in all 42 games as a freshman, Draeger has battled a lower body injury all season, causing him to miss the first eight games.
The MSU men’s basketball team beat No. 15 Iowa 71-69 in Iowa City in an overtime thriller Tuesday night. Iowa hit 30 free throws, but didn’t score for more than 15 minutes during the second half and overtime.
It took a mob. It couldn’t have been just two people to make noise in place of Branden Dawson and Adreian Payne against the Hawkeyes on the road – it needed to be a mob. Luckily for MSU, the Byrd took the slew of role players on his wings down the stretch.
The last team to beat Iowa in Iowa City was the MSU men’s basketball team, and they did it again Tuesday night as the No.
In a game that few thought would be low scoring, MSU trails Iowa 30-26 at the half in Iowa City, Iowa.
Green and white. Maize and blue. It’s time for the rivals to meet again, but this time in gymnastics.
The women’s basketball team’s return to form on offense happened with the subtraction of a key player on Sunday — junior guard Kiana Johnson.
Losing never leaves a good taste in your mouth — however, it can serve as a building block for improvement. A few days removed from the Spartans’ last game, a 5-2 loss to then-No.
Two days after sitting in the locker room with tears in his eyes after losing to Michigan, senior guard Keith Appling was nearly all smiles at Monday’s press conference. But just because he was wearing a smile doesn’t mean the pain of MSU’s 80-75 loss has gone away. “That’s a game not only myself, but my teammates wanted that win very badly,” Appling said.
It doesn’t get any easier from here on out. Following the No. 7 MSU men’s basketball team 80-75 “loss to No.
After Thursday’s loss to Illinois, the women’s basketball team had no answers for the two-game slump.
Contender or pretender? That is the question for MSU hockey. Just 10 days ago, everything seemed to be looking up.
Two days after sitting in the locker room with tears in his eyes after losing to Michigan, senior guard Keith Appling was nearly all smiles at Monday’s press conference.
Keith Appling is tough, but he’s not Superman. The senior guard fought his way through 37 minutes in the No.
When MSU fans were sulking after the 80-75 loss to No. 21 Michigan, Tom Izzo took the podium to address the heartbreaking game. “In the 30 years I’ve been here, I’ve never been more proud of a team,” he said. Wait, what? MSU just dropped a game against their rival to fall behind in the Big Ten title race, and he used the word “proud?” Well, as weird as it seems to say after losing such a marquee game, he’s right on the money. There is no question the Wolverines deserved to win Saturday’s game — they hit all the shots when they needed to in front of the delirious Breslin Center crowd. Yet at the same time, the Spartans took a few steps in the right direction without two of their biggest players. Missing two starters in Adreian Payne and Branden Dawson, Izzo was forced to play some guys who usually only see the court during warmups. Besides Gary Harris’s 27 points and Keith Appling’s double-double, freshman guard Alvin Ellis was the bright point during a loss at the hands of the Wolverines. To be honest, Ellis looked like anything but a first-year player.
After showing signs of potentially turning the corner and reaching a level of play to contend for a Big Ten championship recently, MSU hockey was humbled and took a step back this weekend.
Although the gymnastics team struggled and lost to Penn State during the Autism Awareness meet on Saturday, junior Alina Cartwright and freshman Elena Lagoski came out victorious for the day.
The wrestling team is practicing to reach its goals and fix its mistakes, but still fell to “rival No.