Dear Marcus Taylor, I know we’ve both heard speculation about your future at MSU. And while you might be considering leaving school early for the NBA, I ask you to stay put. This isn’t for my benefit, really - it’s for your own good. I understand why entering the NBA Draft might sound like a good idea to you.
Detroit - Retiring MSU head coach Ron Mason will get another crack at the Wolverines - and it will be with the CCHA Tournament championship on the line. The archrivals posted matching 2-1 semifinal wins in front of 14,079 fans at Joe Louis Arena on Saturday.
Detroit - The No. 2 seed Spartans now know their next CCHA Tournament foe - No. 3 seed Northern Michigan. Behind a hat trick by center Chris Gobert, Northern overcame a 1-0 deficit to notch a 3-1 win against No.
Washington - Midwestern basketball fans probably know who MSU sophomore guard Marcus Taylor is.
If MSU is able to knock off North Carolina State today, it will face one of two formidable opponents. No.
MSU swimmer Kate Duncombe’s regular-season times have qualified her to compete in the 100- and 200-meter backstroke events in the 2002 NCAA Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships on March 28-30 in Athens, Ga.
The men’s tennis team (9-5 overall, 0-2 Big Ten) will host Bowling Green State (8-5) and Bradley (4-8) on Saturday. The women’s tennis team (8-6, 0-2) will host Minnesota (4-9, 0-3) on Saturday and Wisconsin (8-3, 3-0) on Sunday.
Washington - The MSU men’s basketball season came to an end Friday with a 69-58 loss to North Carolina State in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
The minor league baseball season is almost here, and fans of the Lansing Lugnuts can purchase tickets at the box office this weekend. Tickets for the 2002 Lugnuts home games and the 2002 Midwest League All-Star Game on June 18 will be available 10 a.m.
Washington - In the game of basketball, size and strength play large roles, and the Spartans held a distinct advantage over North Carolina State in each category.But it was the Wolfpack (23-11) who prevailed 69-58 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at MCI Center on Friday.The smaller N.C.
No. 2 seed MSU heads into the weekend knowing it needs two wins to claim its fourth CCHA Tournament title in five years. The Spartans (26-7-5) just don’t know who they’ll have to beat to win the Mason Cup, named after MSUhead coach Ron Mason. Six teams still are alive as the second weekend of the CCHA Tournament starts today - up from the usual four.
Junior goaltender Ryan Miller is the CCHA Player of the Year for the second straight season - capturing the honor at the CCHA Awards Banquet on Thursday night at Fox Theatre in Detroit. The league’s 12 coaches dubbed the East Lansing native the CCHA’s premier player after posting conference-leading numbers in goals against average (1.64), saves percentage (.941) and shutouts (eight). He ranked second in league wins (18) and minutes played (1,684:58). Miller is the second person to win the award back-to-back, after Michigan’s Brendan Morrison did so in 1996-97.
The MSU men’s golf team will compete in the Conrad Rehling Spring Invitational this weekend. The invitational starts today in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and ends Sunday.
Washington - The MSU men’s basketball team arrived for a 12:15 p.m. practice Thursday at the MCI Center, but something was missing.
The baseball team (9-2) will travel to Richmond, Ky., to take on Eastern Kentucky (2-8) in a three-game series with a doubleheader Saturday.
The Spartans have the chance to play in the postseason. And they are prepared to make the best of their opportunity. MSU (16-12) will try to extend its season at 7 p.m.
Not making the NCAA Tournament is not the worst thing for the Spartans. In fact, it may be the best thing for the young team. The Women’s National Invitational Tournament is giving MSU another shot at postseason experience, allowing the Spartans to prove they will be a dominant team in the future. Assuming the Spartans (16-12) had made the NCAA Tournament, they would have received a low seed.
For many people, this is the most wonderful time of the year. Christmas is second. And a distant second at that. March Madness is the time of year when basketball fans, gambleaholics and the like get together and fill out their NCAA Tournament brackets. These people predict the winners of 64 games (play-in game, 32 first-round games, 16 second-round games, Sweet 16, Elite Eight, Final Four and championship game) in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament and submit them to their respective pools.
Friday’s first round NCAA Tournament matchup with North Carolina State will be a first for several Spartans. The inexperienced freshmen trio of Alan Anderson, Chris Hill and Kelvin Torbert have raised questions about whether the youthful MSU men’s basketball team can handle the added pressures of March Madness.
Junior goaltender Ryan Miller found out Tuesday he missed the cut for the 72nd annual Sullivan Award - the highest honor for an amateur athlete in the nation.Miller, who is widely regarded as the best collegiate goalie in the nation, was one of 14 semifinalists for the Amateur Athletic Union’s Sullivan Award, but he wasn’t included in the list of five finalists released this week.The five finalists are: Olympic figure skater Michelle Kwan, former Southern Cal pitcher Mark Prior, world champion gymnast Sean Townsend, high school track star Alan Webb, and California swimmer Natalie Coughlin.