Furniture in East Lansing was set ablaze late Friday night and early Saturday morning following MSU’s loss to Duke in the NCAA Tournament, with numerous couch and chair fires reported throughout the city.
The music of the Big Dance came to a halt this weekend for the MSU men’s basketball team. Behind the hot-shooting hand of Duke guard Seth Curry, who finished with a game-high 29 points, the No. 2 seed Blue Devils (30-6) knocked off the No. 3 seed Spartans (27-9) with a 71-61 victory at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
For former high school volleyball player and mechanical engineering sophomore Sara Knoedler, playing volleyball is something she would do regardless of the outcome of her participation. But adding the motive of helping participants of Special Olympics Michigan only made the experience better.
Most students are one month away from finding out the results of their hard work this semester, but for the MSU men’s basketball team, the time for grades has come.
Friday night, MSU softball coach Jacquie Joseph received a text message from Jayme O’Bryant that said she would be better going forward, and she wasn’t kidding.
Down in Columbus, Ohio, this weekend, the MSU baseball team won two of three games against Ohio State in its first conference series of the season. The Spartans improve to 15-8 overall and 2-1 in the Big Ten.
The MSU track and field team got its outdoor season off to a strong start at the Raleigh Relays at North Carolina State this weekend.
He’d sprinted up and down the sidelines nearly a dozen times, bitten everything he could bite and let nearly every expletive fly.
Indianapolis – It started a few weeks ago. With the final postseason of his career approaching, Derrick Nix was looking at the end, seeing the inevitable light at the end of the tunnel.
Indianapolis – Several hours before the game, MSU head coach Tom Izzo addressed hundreds of fans at the Westin Indianapolis, stirring school spirit and rallying the troops for battle before the Sweet 16 matchup with Duke.
With a trip to the Elite Eight on the line, the No. 2 seed Duke leads the No. 3 seed MSU men’s basketball, 32-31, at halftime of the Midwest Regional of the NCAA Tournament.
Hundreds came from near and far to send Tom Izzo off to the Sweet 16 at a pep rally held a few hours before tipoff at the team’s hotel Friday evening.
The No. 3 seed MSU men’s basketball team (27-8) squares off against No. 2 seed Duke (29-5) in the Sweet 16 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
Much of the pregame attention before Friday night’s Sweet 16 matchup has been focused on the coaching matchup between two of the NCAA Tournament’s winningest head coaches, but it’s an Izzo that won’t be roaming the sideline that got some extra publicity this week.
Indianapolis — Sitting with his teammates at Breslin Center, watching the NCAA Tournament’s Selection Show for the first time as a college basketball player, Gary Harris saw the Spartans’ name pop up on the TV screen and began to cheer.
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When Brandon Sartele burned a couch last spring, he hoped to show his Spartan spirit after the men’s basketball team lost in the Sweet 16 NCAA Tournament game to Louisville.
The names of the coaches in the Midwest Region of the NCAA Tournament read like a who’s who in college basketball.
As coaches read a list of gymnasts who will continue their seasons at NCAA Regionals next weekend in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Alina Cartwright did a double take when she heard her name.
At 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, a full 2 1/2 hours before tickets officially went on sale, human development and family studies junior Faye Van Oostenburg staked out the Izzone office on the third floor of the Union for a chance to see the MSU men’s basketball team face Duke in Indianapolis tomorrow. “It’s (about) the experience,” Van Oostenburg said with a smile.