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.
As the No. 5-seed Spartans prepare to play the No. 9-seed Northern Iowa Panthers on Friday night in the Sweet 16, Spartans fans from East Lansing and St. Louis are ready to cheer on their team.
After being on the road for its first 27 games, the MSU softball team returned to East Lansing on Wednesday afternoon and defeated Western Michigan, 5-3, in the team’s home opener at Old College Field.__
Starting Friday, freshman Jacob Jarzen will compete in one butterfly and two backstroke events at the NCAA Championships in Columbus, Ohio, looking to use the experiences of a successful freshman season to put together a good showing as the first Spartan to qualify for the championships in five years.
Heading into the Sweet 16, the Spartans hope to overcome injuries. Junior guard Kalin Lucas will be sidelined for four to six months after rupturing his left Achilles tendon. Delvon Roe continues to fight through pain in his right knee. Junior guard Chris Allen did not practice Tuesday, but both Allen and Roe are expected to play.
The MSU softball team is more than ready to come home. After being on the road for 27 straight games dating back to Feb. 12, the Spartans will play their home opener at 4 p.m. Wednesday against Western Michigan at Old College Field.
Fifteen years ago, Kordell Stewart made waves with his athleticism as a multiple-weapon threat with the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers. On Tuesday, the opening day for MSU football spring practice, head coach Mark Dantonio seemed convinced the Spartans have found their own “Slash.”
Four football players have been reinstated to the MSU football program, while two others have chosen to transfer following November’s Rather Hall incident, MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio announced Tuesday. Sophomore wide receiver B.J.
MSU’s four seniors deserved better than the way their careers ended Monday. The Spartans’ 70-52 loss to Kentucky in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Monday at Freedom Hall signaled the end for Lauren Aitch, Allyssa DeHaan, Aisha Jefferson and Mandy Piechowski, and the ugly loss was an unfortunate final chapter for four women who gave everything they had to the program for their entire careers. It wasn’t just that the Spartans loss — by seeding, No.
Kentucky’s scrappy and swarming play leads to edge on glass, 70-52 victory over MSU in second round of women’s basketball NCAA Tournament.
Louisville, Ky. – After a physical first half, No. 4-seed Kentucky’s aggressive, relentless attack was too much for the No. 5-seed Spartans to handle as fatigue took over and the Wildcats cruised to a 70-52 win Monday night in the second round of the NCAA Tournament at Freedom Hall.
Kalin Lucas ruptured his left Achilles tendon in MSU’s 85-83 second-round win over Maryland on Sunday in the NCAA Tournament, and the junior guard will miss the remainder of the NCAA Tournament, the MSU men’s basketball program announced in a statement. Head coach Tom Izzo said in a statement Monday that “there is no doubt he will make a full and complete recovery.” Recovery time is expected to be four to six months.
The most popular way to spell consistency for the MSU men’s basketball team is to denote the Spartans’ impressive five Final Fours in the last 11 seasons — something no other program has done in that time.
Annalise Pickrel and Madison Williams met at halfcourt Saturday at Breslin Center, each looking to cap their high school basketball careers with a state championship.