The Spartans took care of Ferris State 85-58 on Sunday and now take on a different-look Hillsdale team at 7 p.m. Friday at Breslin Center.
The 2007 MSU volleyball team went largely unnoticed throughout the regular season. Ignored by the coaches poll, the Spartans quietly accumulated a 19-13 regular season record (10-10 Big Ten), earning an NCAA Tournament berth behind the leadership of two senior outside hitters, Katie Johnson and Ashley Schatzle. Both girls racked up more than 500 kills that year while Schatzle earned All-American honors and Johnson was in the discussion.
The No. 15 MSU football team faces a unique challenge in defending 6-foot-4, 240-pound Minnesota quarterback MarQueis Gray, and there’s probably few on the team who understand that like Isaiah Lewis.
After 110 minutes of play, Flietstra made a pair of critical saves on penalty kicks to give the No. 3 seeded MSU women’s soccer team the 4-3 shootout win against No. 6 seeded Iowa in the Big Ten Tournament.
With more than a week before the MSU hockey team sees game action, a break is being welcomed with open arms. After receiving an outpouring of offense in a sweep against Robert Morris at Munn Ice Arena during the past weekend, the Spartans have time to catch their breath before turning their sights to Western Michigan (Nov.
Going into the Big Ten tournament, the MSU field hockey team (7-12 overall, 1-5 Big Ten) knows what it has to do to continue its season.
This week, the Big Ten’s “Honoring Legends. Building Leaders.” tour will be in East Lansing from Thursday to Saturday for the No. 15 MSU football team’s game against Minnesota (noon, Big Ten Network).
Through the first weeks of practice, one thing really stands out to MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo: his team’s unselfishness. But that unselfishness comes at a strange time, when most of the players haven’t played together all that long, Izzo said. “The neat thing is we’ve had years where we’re selfish — the ball never moved,” Izzo said.
Even before the season began, Tom Saxton and the MSU women’s soccer team were eyeing the Big Ten Tournament.
MSU’s emotions were running high in the month’s first three games, but at his weekly press conference Tuesday, head coach Mark Dantonio said emotion appeared to be a missing ingredient Saturday
The Big Ten conference announced its 2011 women’s soccer All-Big Ten teams and award-winners on Tuesday, and several Spartans found their names on the list.
The MSU men’s soccer team heads to Akron, Ohio, to take on the defending national champions No.
The MSU men’s basketball team released photos of its special camouflage uniforms for the Nov. 11 Quicken Loans Carrier Classic.
Usually, I start my look back at the weekend with something that signified the No. 15 MSU football team’s previous game.
They’ve done it again. One year after winning MSU’s first women’s cross country Big Ten title since 2001, the Spartans claimed their second straight conference championship Sunday in Urbana, Ill. Walt Drenth, director of MSU cross country and track and field, said the team was aiming to add another championship win to its résumé prior to this season. “As a group, they sat down together before the season started and talked about what they would like to accomplish,” Drenth said.
MSU men’s soccer team senior goalie Jeremy Clark was named Big Ten Defensive Co-Player of the Week by the conference. Ohio State goalie Matt Lampson shares the award with Clark. Clark made three saves in a 2-1 victory against Western Michigan on Wednesday in preparation for Sunday’s matchup with Michigan. The goalie made nine saves for the shutout against the Wolverines, including a five-shot flurry in the final five minutes of the game. Clark is second in the Big Ten with a .804 save percentage on the season.
Trying to put last season’s struggles it, the MSU men’s basketball team took the floor Sunday for the first time since March, when the Spartans dropped a 78-76 heartbreaker to UCLA in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. During an 85-58 trouncing of the Ferris State Bulldogs in an exhibition at Breslin Center on Sunday, the Spartans were able to get a feel for their team and fans were treated to a preview of what to expect come Nov.
Just one night after witnessing linemate Greg Wolfe flash his fangs and strike fear into Robert Morris’ goaltending, Lee Reimer took his turn on Saturday night. The sophomore forward notched his first career hat trick and added two assists to power the MSU hockey team past RMU, 6-2, Saturday night.
Despite a strong start, the No. 11 Purdue Boilermakers proved to be too much for the MSU volleyball team to handle Saturday evening as the Spartans fell, 3-1. With the loss, the Spartans (17-7 overall, 6-6 Big Ten) split their week’s games for the sixth straight time this season.
The MSU women’s cross country team claimed second straight conference title Sunday at the 2011 Big Ten Cross Country Championship hosted by Illinois in Urbana, Ill. The title is the women’s fourth overall. The women headed into the meet ranked 15th by the U.S.