It was the first time two top-five teams had ever played in East Lansing, and by the time it was over Tuesday night’s tilt between the Spartans and Hoosiers had become a classic.
For the second week in a row, the MSU women’s basketball team will take the Breslin Center floor one day following a highly-anticipated men’s matchup with a winning streak against a conference foe on the line.
The stakes were already high, a late season battle for first place in the Big Ten, but there was extra juice in Breslin Center on Tuesday night.
Twenty-eight seasons. Fourteen trips to Alaska. Hundreds of games. Countless players. Few fans are as dedicated as Janeen Geisenhaver.
At Tuesday afternoon’s press conference, MSU hockey players and head coach Tom Anastos finally were able to say they succeeded at the little things last weekend.
Every time the MSU wrestling team hits the mat, the work they’ve put in all season is on display, but they’re not the only people watching their hard work pay off.
Follow along with our live chat as top-ranked Indiana rolls into Breslin Center for a nationally-televised tilt with MSU.
As the scattered remains of Jimmy John’s wrappers and Little Caesar’s Pizza boxes tumbled in the bone-chilling wind across the snow-covered lawn, hundreds of students wrapped around Breslin Center in excitement for the highly-anticipated No.
Close, but no cigar. Three weeks ago, this was the overarching message after the then-No. 13 MSU men’s basketball team left Assembly Hall with a 75-70 loss to then-No.
For the first time in history, the MSU men’s basketball team will host a top-five matchup, as the No. 4 Spartans (22-4 overall, 11-2 Big Ten) square off against No. 1 Indiana (23-3, 11-2) in front of a national television audience (7 p.m., ESPN).
Two of the greatest gifts one can give another are time and love, and Dr. Larry Nassar has given plenty of both.
The first player from MSU to hear his name called in the 2013 NFL Draft likely will have to wait until the second or third day, according to the NFL Network’s Mike Mayock.
The MSU softball team lwent 4-1 this weekend at the Littlewood Classic in Tempe, Ariz.
With a difficult stretch of games during the next week, the No. 8 MSU men’s basketball team saw an opportunity this weekend to hone some of its shortcomings against Nebraska.
After a disappointing 30-10 loss to Iowa State on Friday night, the MSU wrestling team had an extra long meeting in the locker room to discuss what went wrong.
The emotions were difficult to hide on both sides. For the visitors wearing green it was disappointment.
Sitting last in the CCHA and yet to sweep a series, the MSU hockey team doesn’t have much to show for its work. But despite a 9-20-3 overall record, 7-16-1-0 in the CCHA, the Spartans have made sure their opponents recognize they still have some fight in them. “The biggest takeaway is to show that these guys can be resilient,” head coach Tom Anastos said of the weekend.
After spending several weeks practicing indoors, a trip to South Carolina was supposed to mean warm weather and sunny skies for the MSU baseball team.
The MSU gymnastics team showed a resiliency not seen all season as they lost to Ohio State 195.575-194.250 Saturday afternoon.
Coming off Friday night’s game where fatal mistakes were the demise of the MSU hockey’s 5-3 loss to Northern Michigan, the Spartans managed to find the positives and apply it to Saturday evening. This time, the effort and the execution outweighed the mistakes, and MSU (13-15-4 overall, 7-13-4-1 CCHA) came out on top of the Wildcats, 4-2. “To be honest with you, I was a little concerned coming in after yesterday’s game how we were going to respond,” head coach Tom Anastos said.