Thirty games into the season, the MSU softball team has demonstrated several strengths and stuck close with the majority of its opponents but still hasn’t found its killer instinct.
It’s been a week since the MSU women’s basketball team was eliminated from the NCAA Tournament by Kentucky, and although the loss surely still stings the team, the Spartans have a bright future despite losing four important seniors.
St. Louis — Junior guard Durrell Summers finished with a game-high 21 points Sunday in No. 5-seed MSU’s 70-69 win over No. 6-seed Tennessee. The turnaround for Summers, the Spartans’ leading scorer in the NCAA Tournament, came after Izzo benched Summers in the Big Ten Tournament for poor defensive effort.
St. Louis — Sophomore guard Korie Lucious has played 93 of 100 possible minutes since halftime of MSU’s second round game against Maryland, when he took over point guard duties from starter and junior guard Kalin Lucas, who ruptured his Achilles’ tendon. In that time, Lucious has recorded 26, nine assists, nine steals and eight turnovers.
With Sunday’s 10-3 victory against Oakland at McLane Baseball Stadium at Kobs Field, the Spartans (16-4) have now won 10 straight games.
After overcoming rain and a three-run first inning deficit, the MSU softball team couldn’t overcome a late Iowa rally, falling 7-6 to the Hawkeyes on Sunday. Two sixth-inning tallies completed Iowa’s comeback from down 6-5 and lifted the Hawkeyes to a one-run win on a wild afternoon that featured several lead changes.
As the only Spartan swimmer to compete in the 2010 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships, freshman Jacob Jarzen finished his two days of competition this weekend in Columbus, Ohio. Jarzen swam in two events Saturday, finishing 24th in the 100-meter butterfly with a time of 47.12 and 32nd in the 100-meter backstroke with a time of 48.24.
St. Louis – Barbecue will take a backseat to basketball for the No. 6-seed Tennessee Volunteers on Saturday, one day before they make their first Elite Eight appearance in school history. The Volunteers and No. 5-seed MSU Spartans will meet at 2:20 p.m. Sunday.
The rangy No. 6-seed Volunteers could present matchup problems for Spartans, making it important for junior guard Durrell Summers to join his teammates in hitting the glass, MSU head coach Tom Izzo said Saturday. The No. 5-seed MSU men’s basketball team tips off against Tennessee at 2:20 p.m. Sunday.
St. Louis — Welcome to the big stage, Mr. Big Shot. I’m talking, of course, about sophomore guard Korie Lucious, who, for the second consecutive game, hit a key shot late in the game to give the Spartans an NCAA Tournament victory. Last Sunday, it was the buzzer-beater to defeat Maryland. Friday night, it was a floating jumper with 1:31 to play that put the No.
St. Louis – Playing through pain he described as “ridiculous”, sophomore forward Delvon Roe was inspirational in the No. 5-seed MSU men’s basketball team’s come-from-behind 59-52 win Friday at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis.
Korie Lucious’ game-winning 3-pointer to beat Maryland, 85-83, Sunday won more than just the game.
The No. 5-seed MSU men’s basketball team, with three players (junior guards Chris Allen and Kalin Lucas and sophomore forward Delvon Roe) suffering leg injuries, are hurting. No. 9-seed Northern Iowa battled its way to an upset of No. 1 overall seed Kansas, an easy pick for a national title winner.
One team came out of its last game with three injured players and a fourth with a chipped tooth, while the other has nine healthy players averaging 11 minutes or more per game. So who’s the favorite?
Kelly Beaton covers Northern Iowa for the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier. Beaton is in his first season covering the Panthers and on Thursday spoke with The State News about Friday’s game with the Spartans.
Don’t call the No. 9-seed Northern Iowa Panthers an underdog.
This isn’t the demeanor expected from the MSU men’s basketball team’s two freshman centers who have never played this much basketball in their lives.
With time winding down in the MSU men’s basketball team’s first-round NCAA Tournament game against New Mexico State last week, it felt like every Spartan and their next of kin was in dire foul trouble when MSU needed some big rebounds. Enter Draymond Green.
Granted, conference play hasn’t started yet. But the MSU baseball team is off to a 12-4 start, the team’s best since the 2002 season when it posted a 14-2 record through its first 16 games.
As the No. 25 MSU women’s gymnastics team prepares for this weekend’s Big Ten Championships, it enters with plenty of good news and a little bit of bad news.