For the first time since 2007, the women’s basketball team will leave Iowa City with a win. Aided by hot shooting from behind the arc, the women’s basketball team built a 21-point halftime lead and cruised to a win Thursday night, defeating Iowa at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, 87-72.
MSU has a long tradition of success on the basketball court, but they’re one win away from putting another historic notch in their green and white belt. With a win in Champaign, Ill.
The women’s basketball team hit on all cylinders in the first half against Iowa, entering halftime with a 49-28 lead.
For the last two months, the No. 4 men’s basketball team’s starting five has looked like a carousel.
MSU will have two more opportunities to find its first win in the newly-formed Big Ten as the Spartans return home for the first time in more than a month against Penn State.
The wrestling team lost its first match of 2014 earlier this month to Iowa, 41-0, and will face No. 2 Minnesota today, two of the top teams in the country — and MSU will have to stop focusing on rankings in order to come out victorious. No.
There’s no arguing it, No. 4 MSU is one of the best squads in the nation – truly a “Final Four or bust” team.
Gary Harris and Keith Appling combined to score 25 points to lead the No. 4 MSU men’s basketball team to a 54-40 win against Northwestern Wednesday night in Evanston, Ill. Appling also contributed four assists, while junior forward Branden Dawson grabbed 11 rebounds to lead MSU.
It’s been a rough three years for junior guard Travis Trice, who has been haunted during his career by three I’s: injury, infection and illness.
Fresh off a close win over Michigan, the women’s basketball team (11-5 overall, 3-0 Big Ten)SB is playing its best basketball of the season.
The last time Northwestern won a game against a top-5 opponent was in 1979 against the Spartans, and after the first half Wednesday night, they’re in prime position to do it again.
On paper, the No. 4 men’s basketball team should have no problem dismantling Northwestern in MSU’s first road game in 11 days. However, coming fresh off an upset of then-No.
When there is so much pressure resting on you, the best thing to do is relax. Even if you have to throw yourself in the air and flip over twice. Even if you have to tumble on a 4-foot-high and 4-inch wide surface. Even if you have to run toward a still object as fast as you can, like MSU junior gymnast Alina Cartwright does every day. As MSU’s gymnastics season gets underway, Cartwright is focusing on relaxing to reach her goals of placing and medaling at the Big Ten championship, as well as at nationals. Cartwright’s lofty goals date back to her career as a high school gymnast.
Sunday’s 79-72 victory against Michigan was familiar territory for women’s basketball head coach Suzy Merchant.
Finding the back of the net was the talk of the day during head coach Tom Anastos Tuesday’s weekly press conference, following a one-goal night last time out against Ohio State.
There were numerous factors that helped MSU overcome Michigan in Ann Arbor on Sunday — timely baskets, perfect free-throw shooting with the game on the line, big performances from several key players on the roster.
Keith Appling was one of the last players on the court after practice Tuesday to work on his jump shot.
The No. 16 Illinois gymnastics team grabbed the Victory Plank rivalry trophySB for the second year in a row Friday night as it narrowly beat MSU, 195.352-194.150, at Jenison Field House.
There are three certainties in life — death, taxes and the No. 5 men’s basketball team clogging up the injury report on a weekly basis.