This past week electrical engineering senior and swim team captain David Zoltowski was awarded the prominent Churchill Scholarship.
The women’s tennis team is coming off an up and down two-day stretch of play in California against No.
Perhaps the season has not gone quite the way fans had hoped, and after 20 games, head coach Tom Izzo is disappointed as well. He is, however, trying to keep things in perspective. “(I) keep reminding myself we’re 13-7 not 7-13,” Izzo said.
By Mayara Sanches msanches@statenews.com Not many freshman recruited by a Big Ten school get to play much, or even at all, during their freshman year. They are put on the bench, where they sit and watch the great players do their best, hoping to learn from them.
Foul trouble crippled the men's basketball team early against No. 16 Maryland on Saturday. Senior forward Branden Dawson, sophomore forward Gavin Schilling, junior forward Branden Dawson and junior guard Denzel Valentine each picked up two in the first half, and head coach Tom Izzo was forced to turn to his bench sooner than he would have preferred. It wasn't the first time Valentine got himself into early foul trouble this season.
The men's basketball game against Rutgers has been rescheduled to Thursday at 6 p.m. according to a statement released by the athletic communications department at Rutgers. The game was originally scheduled for Tuesday at 9 p.m.
With a potentially historic snowstorm looming, the men's basketball team's Tuesday 9 p.m. game against Rutgers has been postponed indefinitely, Rutgers men's basketball announced through its Twitter handle. To avoid the storm, head coach Tom Izzo said the men's basketball team moved its flight up to 3 p.m. Rutgers announced the game had been cancelled about an hour before MSU was scheduled to leave East Lansing.
Trae Waynes, the former MSU standout, will get another opportunity to further showcase his skills as a defensive back before the NFL Draft in the 2015 Quicken Loans All-Star Football Challenge. Scheduled to participate in the Hands Competition, Waynes is set to take on Landon Collins (Alabama) and Quinten Rollins (Miami OH.) on Friday, Jan.
Pat Narduzzi's success as a defensive coordinator for the Michigan State Spartans was so renowned that his head coaching search didn't stop at just Colorado State and Pittsburgh.
MSU hockey (9-11-2, 3-3-2-2 Big Ten) is coming its best weekend of the 2014-2015 season after picking up two wins against Ohio State (7-13-2, 2-6 Big Ten) on Friday and Saturday.
In the annual annual Jan Howard Memorial Breast Cancer Awareness Meet the MSU women's gymnastics team the Minnesota Golden Gophers on Saturday evening. The Spartans began the night on the vault with junior Nicola Deans coming in first in the competition, while MSU was on the vault, Minnesota had a quality team performance on the bars.
MSU (13-7 overall, 4-3 Big Ten) put on yet another puzzling performance, this time in a two-point loss to Nebraska. After scoring the game’s first points, the Spartans trailed the rest of the way, as Nebraska’s Terran Petteway and Shavon Shields delivered a one-two punch that MSU just couldn’t handle.
The women’s basketball team defeated Wisconsin, 77-71 , in a very close game Sunday. With a lot of fight, the team was able to break through the tight Wisconsin defense and bring home the win, after coming back from 85-56 loss against Maryland on Thursday . “That was a rough one,” freshman Kennedy Johnson said.
With 7:26 minutes remaining in the game, it looked as though MSU was set to suffer its second consecutive blowout conference loss on the road. It was at the 7:26 mark when Nebraska junior guard Terran Pettaway, who had been giving MSU fits all night, sank his third and last 3-pointer to give the Huskers a 58-43 lead.
MSU hockey (9-11-2, 3-3-2-2 Big Ten) earned its first weekend sweep of the 2014-2015 season on Saturday night.
A furious rally in the final minutes wasn't enough for MSU, and the Spartans lost to Nebraska, 79-77. The final score does not paint an accurate picture, as the Cornhuskers led almost the entire game and had the Spartans looking lost for much of the contest. MSU freshman forward Javon Bess provided an early spark for the Spartans, scoring his team’s first five points on aggressive drives to the rim.
The men's basketball team submitted another disappointing offensive performance in the first half against Nebraska Saturday and trail 39-25 at halftime.
MSU hockey (8-11-2, 2-3-2-2 Big Ten) improved its standing in the Big Ten Friday night, while simultaneously hurting Ohio State’s (7-12-2, 2-5 Big Ten). The Spartans skated to a 4-1 victory Friday night, behind junior goaltender Jake Hildebrand’s 33 saves.
Sophomore forward Gavin Schilling was a monster for the Spartans Wednesday night, dunking with authority and cleaning up the boards to help propel the Spartans to a 66-60 win against Penn State. Despite his eye-popping stat line —11 points and 10 rebounds, six of which came on the offensive end — he and head coach Tom Izzo discussed his tendency to go up for the ball with one hand after the game.
The women’s basketball (9-10 overall, 1-7 Big Ten) team could not outscore No. 7 Maryland, losing 85-56 on Thursday night. Redshirt sophomore Aerial Powers scored 28 points, half of the Spartans’ score.