SPORTS
U looks to coaching ranks for new athletics director
Once again, a coach is expected to assume the position of athletics director at MSU. MSU President M.
SPORTS
Change to small, quick lineup works for Spartans
They may have been smaller, but the players in the Spartans’ new lineup did their job.The women’s basketball team has utilized various lineups all season, but Sunday night’s was arguably its most effective.The Spartans (13-7 overall, 3-6 Big Ten) defeated Northwestern (4-16, 0-9) 75-58.Wildcats head coach June Olkowski was the first to admit the Spartans lineup puzzled her team.“What really gave us problems was the matchup,” Olkowski said.
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White-Out for U-M
Wednesday’s game against Michigan at Breslin Center has been classified as a “White-Out” game. MSU’s athletics department is asking all attending fans to wear white T-shirts in a show of support. In other basketball news, the Big Ten Conference announced on Friday the start time for the MSU-Ohio State game on Feb.
ICE HOCKEY
U wants Mason for A.D.
MSU hockey head coach Ron Mason will announce today that he’ll become the university’s 16th athletics director, ending a 23-year tenure at the helm of the hockey program.
ICE HOCKEY
BREAKING NEWS: Mason by the numbers
MSU hockey head coach Ron Mason is expected to leave behind an impressive record on the ice to accept the post of MSU athletics director.
ICE HOCKEY
BREAKING NEWS: Mason to be athletics director
MSU President M. Peter McPherson will recommend Spartan hockey head coach Ron Mason to become the university’s next athletics director at a Monday morning press conference. University officials made the announcement Saturday night while Mason’s team was playing Ohio State at Munn Ice Arena.
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Spurt at games end cant save Spartans from Iowa
The Spartan women’s basketball team left Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Thursday night taking some good out of their 75-55 loss to Iowa.The good news - the Spartans (12-7 overall, 2-6 Big Ten) outscored the Hawkeyes 36-33 for 20 minutes.The bad news - the Hawkeyes (13-5, 6-2) already held a 42-19 lead in the 20 minutes prior.“You would have thought that we had no scouting report going into the game, but we did,” Spartan head coach Joanne P.
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Sports briefs
Irish host ‘U’ runnersThe men’s and women’s track teams compete in a dual meet today at Notre Dame.The women’s team (1-0 overall, 0-0 Big Ten) kicks off its third meet at 6 p.m.
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Nations best come to Jenison
After participating in the National Coaches Wrestling Association/Cliff Keen National Duals on Saturday, the road won’t get any easier for the wrestling team. The Spartans (3-3 overall, 0-0 Big Ten) take on No.
ICE HOCKEY
Icers prepare for Buckeyes
MSU begins a four-game odyssey with No. 14 Ohio State - its first four-game stand in 31 years - with two contests at Munn Ice Arena today and Saturday. The teams also play Feb.
BASKETBALL
Hoops team get depth from the football field
After a rash of injuries, the MSU men’s basketball team is looking to the football team to fill holes on its roster.Anytime a team has a lot of injuries, it’s hard to prepare for opponents, ESPN college basketball analyst Jay Bilas said.“When you’re short-handed you can’t practice as long or as hard as you want to,” Bilas said.
BASKETBALL
Judgment lost in heat of battle
Iowa City, Iowa - Late in the MSU men’s basketball team’s 75-71 Tuesday night loss to Iowa at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, Jason Andreas had his shot blocked.
BASKETBALL
Wolfe out for season with hamstring tear
The Spartans will be without sophomore forward Adam Wolfe for the remainder of the season. Wolfe suffered a severe hamstring tear to his right leg in the first half of Saturday’s Penn State game. “It’s very disappointing news,” said MSU head coach Tom Izzo in a written statement.
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Buckeye turns green and white
The choice came down to being a Spartan or a Buckeye for Christy Linder. In the end, she decided to go green.MSU would be an obvious and possibly easy choice for a Michigan resident, but Linder is from Ohio.Her parents are both die-hard Buckeye fans and wanted their daughter to stay close to home, but they left the decision up to her.“Since we are both Buckeye fans, we both wanted her to go to Ohio State,” said Dan Linder, Christy’s father.
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Spartans hope depth prevails against Hawkeyes
After the final buzzer tonight inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena, one thing is certain - one team will continue its winning ways; the other will have to start over.The Spartan women’s basketball squad hits the road in hopes of extending its two-game winning streak against the red-hot Iowa Hawkeyes, fresh off four straight wins.Junior guard Vnemina Reese said the Spartans (12-6 overall, 2-5 Big Ten) have had their first taste of conference success, and they’re hungry for more.“Winning is contagious,” Reese said.
BASKETBALL
Despite loss, Spartans find positives in Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa - Tuesday night was definitely a game between two teams that wanted to exit the Big Ten basement and save a chance at the conference title.It went down to the wire.
ICE HOCKEY
Spartans move up in polls, play Buckeyes
In the wake of a 1-1 tie with archrival Michigan, MSU climbed up a spot in both national polls this week. The Spartans (17-5-3 overall, 12-4-2 CCHA) are now ranked No.
BASKETBALL
Andreas continues to improve
Before the season even began, Jason Andreas lost his nose for the ball.The 6-foot-10, third-year sophomore center broke his nose three times in the preseason and hasn’t been the same since, MSU head basketball coach Tom Izzo said.“He was playing more like Rambo as a freshman and sophomore, and more like Tinkerbell as a junior,” Izzo said.
FOOTBALL
Wide receiver commits
Kyle Brown, a 6-foot-1, 195-pound senior wide receiver from West Bloomfield High, said Monday that MSU would be his college of choice.Brown said he called MSU head football coach Bobby Williams Sunday to officially announce his decision.“(MSU) was the school that really fit me,” he said.
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Grapplers fall short
The MSU wrestling team (3-3) fell in its first match 36-5 to Oklahoma State (12-2) Friday, in the teams’ opening contest of the Cliff Keen/NWCA National Duals tournament. The Spartans regrouped to defeat No.