SPORTS

Change to small, quick lineup works for Spartans

Chris Mackinder

January 28, 2002

They may have been smaller, but the players in the Spartans’ new lineup did their job.The women’s basketball team has utilized various lineups all season, but Sunday night’s was arguably its most effective.The Spartans (13-7 overall, 3-6 Big Ten) defeated Northwestern (4-16, 0-9) 75-58.Wildcats head coach June Olkowski was the first to admit the Spartans lineup puzzled her team.“What really gave us problems was the matchup,” Olkowski said.

SPORTS

White-Out for U-M

Wednesday’s game against Michigan at Breslin Center has been classified as a “White-Out” game. MSU’s athletics department is asking all attending fans to wear white T-shirts in a show of support. In other basketball news, the Big Ten Conference announced on Friday the start time for the MSU-Ohio State game on Feb.

SPORTS

Spurt at games end cant save Spartans from Iowa

Dan Woike

January 25, 2002

The Spartan women’s basketball team left Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Thursday night taking some good out of their 75-55 loss to Iowa.The good news - the Spartans (12-7 overall, 2-6 Big Ten) outscored the Hawkeyes 36-33 for 20 minutes.The bad news - the Hawkeyes (13-5, 6-2) already held a 42-19 lead in the 20 minutes prior.“You would have thought that we had no scouting report going into the game, but we did,” Spartan head coach Joanne P.

SPORTS

Sports briefs

Irish host ‘U’ runnersThe men’s and women’s track teams compete in a dual meet today at Notre Dame.The women’s team (1-0 overall, 0-0 Big Ten) kicks off its third meet at 6 p.m.

SPORTS

Nations best come to Jenison

Chris Mackinder

January 25, 2002

After participating in the National Coaches Wrestling Association/Cliff Keen National Duals on Saturday, the road won’t get any easier for the wrestling team. The Spartans (3-3 overall, 0-0 Big Ten) take on No.

ICE HOCKEY

Icers prepare for Buckeyes

James Jahnke

January 25, 2002

MSU begins a four-game odyssey with No. 14 Ohio State - its first four-game stand in 31 years - with two contests at Munn Ice Arena today and Saturday. The teams also play Feb.

BASKETBALL

Hoops team get depth from the football field

Justin A. Rice

January 25, 2002

After a rash of injuries, the MSU men’s basketball team is looking to the football team to fill holes on its roster.Anytime a team has a lot of injuries, it’s hard to prepare for opponents, ESPN college basketball analyst Jay Bilas said.“When you’re short-handed you can’t practice as long or as hard as you want to,” Bilas said.

BASKETBALL

Judgment lost in heat of battle

Iowa City, Iowa - Late in the MSU men’s basketball team’s 75-71 Tuesday night loss to Iowa at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, Jason Andreas had his shot blocked.

BASKETBALL

Wolfe out for season with hamstring tear

Eric Mckinney

January 24, 2002

The Spartans will be without sophomore forward Adam Wolfe for the remainder of the season. Wolfe suffered a severe hamstring tear to his right leg in the first half of Saturday’s Penn State game. “It’s very disappointing news,” said MSU head coach Tom Izzo in a written statement.

SPORTS

Buckeye turns green and white

Chris Mackinder

January 24, 2002

The choice came down to being a Spartan or a Buckeye for Christy Linder. In the end, she decided to go green.MSU would be an obvious and possibly easy choice for a Michigan resident, but Linder is from Ohio.Her parents are both die-hard Buckeye fans and wanted their daughter to stay close to home, but they left the decision up to her.“Since we are both Buckeye fans, we both wanted her to go to Ohio State,” said Dan Linder, Christy’s father.

SPORTS

Spartans hope depth prevails against Hawkeyes

Dan Woike

January 24, 2002

After the final buzzer tonight inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena, one thing is certain - one team will continue its winning ways; the other will have to start over.The Spartan women’s basketball squad hits the road in hopes of extending its two-game winning streak against the red-hot Iowa Hawkeyes, fresh off four straight wins.Junior guard Vnemina Reese said the Spartans (12-6 overall, 2-5 Big Ten) have had their first taste of conference success, and they’re hungry for more.“Winning is contagious,” Reese said.

BASKETBALL

Despite loss, Spartans find positives in Iowa

Paul Day

January 24, 2002

Iowa City, Iowa - Tuesday night was definitely a game between two teams that wanted to exit the Big Ten basement and save a chance at the conference title.It went down to the wire.

ICE HOCKEY

Spartans move up in polls, play Buckeyes

James Jahnke

January 23, 2002

In the wake of a 1-1 tie with archrival Michigan, MSU climbed up a spot in both national polls this week. The Spartans (17-5-3 overall, 12-4-2 CCHA) are now ranked No.

BASKETBALL

Andreas continues to improve

Justin A. Rice

January 23, 2002

Before the season even began, Jason Andreas lost his nose for the ball.The 6-foot-10, third-year sophomore center broke his nose three times in the preseason and hasn’t been the same since, MSU head basketball coach Tom Izzo said.“He was playing more like Rambo as a freshman and sophomore, and more like Tinkerbell as a junior,” Izzo said.

FOOTBALL

Wide receiver commits

Ryan Wallace

January 22, 2002

Kyle Brown, a 6-foot-1, 195-pound senior wide receiver from West Bloomfield High, said Monday that MSU would be his college of choice.Brown said he called MSU head football coach Bobby Williams Sunday to officially announce his decision.“(MSU) was the school that really fit me,” he said.

SPORTS

Grapplers fall short

The MSU wrestling team (3-3) fell in its first match 36-5 to Oklahoma State (12-2) Friday, in the teams’ opening contest of the Cliff Keen/NWCA National Duals tournament. The Spartans regrouped to defeat No.

ICE HOCKEY

Miller shines, despite weaker supporting cast

Ann Arbor - About 30 minutes after the book was closed on MSU’s 1-1 tie with Michigan, Ryan Miller stood amid a group of reporters in a makeshift interview room in the bowels of Yost Ice Arena. Without warning, a U-M writer listening to Miller’s comments dropped his tape recorder.

SPORTS

Experience prevails against Lions

Dan Woike

January 22, 2002

Penn State head coach Rene Portland wasn’t happy after losing 66-62 to the Spartans on Sunday at Breslin Center, and she had good reason.Her Nittany Lions led for most of the second half and held a one-point advantage with 1:14 left after forward Jessica Brungo’s free throws made the count 62-61.But in the final minute, Penn State did one thing the Spartan women’s basketball team didn’t - they played young.After freshman center Kelli Roehrig’s layup put the Spartans back on top 63-62, the Nittany Lions couldn’t answer.

ICE HOCKEY

Bragging rights still unclaimed

James Jahnke

January 22, 2002

Ann Arbor - Coming out of Saturday night’s showdown with No. 8 Michigan at Yost Ice Arena, fifth-ranked MSU is still where it wants to be - alone in first place in the CCHA. Things could have been better for the Spartans - they took a 1-0 lead into the game’s final seven minutes - but they sounded more pleased than disappointed after the 1-1 tie with U-M kept them two points up on the Wolverines in the CCHA standings. “It’s a great tie for Michigan State,” MSU head coach Ron Mason said.

BASKETBALL

Hoops team heads to Iowa

Paul Day

January 22, 2002

Coming off its first road win at Penn State, the MSU men’s basketball team looks to duplicate that feat in Iowa.Like MSU (11-7 overall, 2-3 Big Ten), the No.