Sitting in the bleachers of East Lansing High School’s gym, Robert Smith recounted fond memories of one of the most accomplished players in his 11-year tenure — MSU junior guard Klarissa Bell. “We were in a team meeting one time and we had to pass the ball to each other,” Smith recalled.
At five-foot-eight, Michael Ferrantino might not be the biggest player to step on the ice each game, but he is determined to be the hardest working.
They call him Batman. Redshirt freshman 149-pounder Roger Wildmo has been in the starting lineup for the MSU wrestling team the past two meets, and has taken advantage of it.
As the Spartans prepare to welcome Illinois (15-6, 2-5) to Breslin Center Tonight (7 p.m., ESPN), sophomore guard Travis Trice said it’s imperative the team doesn’t let one loss snowball into anything more, as was the case a season ago.
Even after doctors told her that her gymnastics career was over, senior Taira Neal continued on and now is captain of the MSU gymnastics team.
Before to the game at Illinois on Jan. 13, MSU women’s basketball coach Suzy Merchant held a meeting with her three primary guards: senior Jasmine Thomas, junior Klarissa Bell and sophomore Kiana Johnson to break down extra game film.
Not only is the No. 13 MSU men’s basketball team’s (17-4 overall, 6-2 Big Ten) rotation small, it’s also potentially frail, with each of the seven players burdened in one way or another.
After taking one of the nation’s top teams down to the wire before falling short of the victory Sunday, there was little different about the way Tom Izzo spent his postgame press conference.
Looking back on a week marked by a pair of tough five-point losses, MSU women’s basketball coach Suzy Merchant is looking for a little more fire from her team.
At 285 pounds, No.7 junior heavyweight Mike McClure is a big man, so big, that some teams think twice about facing him in competition. He won his matches against Iowa and Northwestern by forfeit after No. 5 Bobby Telford and No. 9 Mike McMullan didn’t compete.
This season, Tom Anastos has juggled lines and mixed and matched players in hopes of finding something that sticks, sometimes being forced into changes because of lingering injuries.
Growing up a little more than an hour away from Assembly Hall, it was a pipe dream of many that Gary Harris would be a Hoosier.
All year no matter how ugly the game would get, the Spartans knew they would find a way to grind out victories in the final minutes behind the poise of their dependable closer.
One week after entering the Associated Press top-25 for the first time since 2011, the No. 25 MSU women’s basketball team might have played itself out of the rankings by dropping consecutive games for the first time this season.
In a weekend when MSU hockey generated more goals than it had since early November, the offense still wasn’t enough for the Spartans, who split their series with Penn State.
The MSU wrestling team had a case of cat scratch fever this weekend as they lost to No. 16 Northwestern Wildcats, 18-15, on Friday, and the Ohio Bobcats, 22-16, on Sunday.
The MSU gymnastics team suffered their third straight loss as they fell to Illinois 196.125-193.35 Saturday afternoon.
The No. 25 MSU women’s basketball team has lost two consecutive contests for the first time this season after being downed by Purdue in overtime today, 67-62.
After being absent from the starting lineup for the first time this season, Becca Mills and Annalise Pickrel made their presence felt off the bench for the Spartans against No. 15 Purdue on Sunday.
The No. 13 MSU men’s basketball team (17-4 overall, 6-2 Big Ten) was unable to pull off the upset in Bloomington, Ind. Sunday afternoon, falling to No. 7 Indiana (18-2, 6-1), 75-70, before a capacity crowd at Assembly Hall.