This season — especially during the rough patches — freshman goaltender Jake Hildebrand kept MSU hockey in many games.
In the college basketball world, desperation can be a strange feeling.
_Oxford, Ohio_— In the first match of the second round of the CCHA playoffs, MSU shut out Miami (Ohio) — ranked third in the NCAA, — 3-0. The Spartans came out with a fire underneath them, scoring two goals in the first period and putting pressure on the CCHA top-seed.
With a potential NCAA Tournament bid on the line, many expected Fran McCaffery and No. 6 seed Iowa to come out swinging in a second-round matchup against the No. 8 seed MSU men’s basketball team. And after one half of play, the Hawkeyes look like a team who wants to go dancing.
The MSU men’s basketball team takes on Iowa in the second round of the Big Ten Tournament in Chicago.
Sitting in MSU hockey’s way of a trip to Joe Louis Arena is a series with one of the top ranked teams in the country: Miami (Ohio).
Tom Izzo has never been afraid to send a message. Coming off a loss to then-No. 7 Indiana, the MSU basketball team returned to Breslin Center in January in need of a victory against a tough Illinois team.
Derrick Nix is many things. Articulate, brash, confident, cocky, funny, stubborn. But one word likely has never been used — softy.
With two wins separating the MSU hockey team from another trip to Joe Louis Arena, Chris Forfar said it would be “awesome” to play there again, but the senior forward’s thoughts are on the task directly ahead.
The MSU softball team will head to Bloomington, Ind., this weekend for its final tournament before the Big Ten season gets underway. The team is looking to improve on fundamentals as well as get acclimated to colder weather in the Midwest.
MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo described it as a “historic” tournament for the conference — the first time the Big Ten has had a field featuring six teams ranked in the top 10 during the course of the season.
Le’Veon Bell remembers a video from when he was 5 years old where he told his mom and aunt he wanted to play professional football.
Former MSU defensive tackle Jerel Worthy was in East Lansing on Wednesday afternoon watching nine of his old teammates workout for NFL scouts during MSU football’s annual Pro Day event.
With winter conditions lingering into mid-March in East Lansing, the early-season southern tour was supposed to be a reprieve from the cold weather for the MSU baseball team.
Earlier in the season, Tom Anastos and the rest of the MSU hockey coaching staff shuffled lines in an effort to find chemistry that worked.
It didn’t take long for Steven Neville, also known as one of the Angry Birds that flocked the Breslin Center this past season, to respond to one simple question — what comes to mind when thinking of the Izzone? “Loud,” the hospitality business junior said.
With the postseason approaching, most college basketball coaches are burying their heads in scouting reports and scouring hours of game film, looking for any detail to give them an edge on the competition.
Elementary education senior Louis Armbrecht is going home to Chicago to watch basketball this weekend, but the 2013 Men’s Basketball Big Ten Tournament isn’t the top priority for the Spartan Brass trombone player.
It’s not uncommon in a bitter breakup for people to say hurtful things they don’t mean. But usually, the most painful pill to swallow is when the elephant in the room is harshly and bluntly stated as a matter of fact.