Congratulations to the women’s team for knocking off #1 seeded Duke last night. The perfect homecoming for Joanne P. McCallie–from a Spartan perspective. I’d say more, but I don’t know any more. I have to confess I only saw the last 10 minutes of the game–and that was purely by accident. Those of you who [...]
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A shout out for the gals
Posted in news, tagged women's basketball on March 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Get thee to a newsstand
Posted in news, tagged kalin lucas, sports illustrated on March 24, 2009 | 20 Comments »
Mr. Nix is Mr. Basketball
Posted in news, tagged derrick nix on March 23, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Detroit Pershing center Derrick Nix was named Michigan’s high school Mr. Basketball today. Nix is the first MSU commitment to win the award since Drew Neitzel won it in 2004. He will become the sixth Michigan Mr. Basketball–and the tenth Mr. Basketball from any state–to play for the Spartans during Tom Izzo’s 14-year head coaching [...]
Warm-Up TV Viewing
Posted in news on March 18, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The three days between the NCAA bracket getting revealed and tournament play actually starting are always a tough stretch to get through for us hoops junkies (NIT games just don’t cut it). Here something to watch tonight to get us warmed up for MSU’s tournament run: WLNS TV 6 NCAA Special Posted: March 16, 2009 [...]
In the words of the Breslin scoreboard trivia contest . . .
Posted in news, tagged jamil wilson on March 5, 2009 | 10 Comments »
. . . now THAT’S a Tuffy! What’s to be done about hanging a banner? Certainly, he [Tom Izzo] doesn’t want to show any disrespect to the Boilermakers, or fire them up, by dropping the banner before the game. And, such a ceremony might feel hollow if MSU loses to a motivated Purdue team, which [...]
Dion Sims is a Spartan
Posted in news, tagged dion sims, recruiting on January 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This is technically a football commitment, which I don’t typically cover. But Dion Sims clearly wants to be a Division 1 college basketball player: In the end, the difference was the joint effort of Coaches Dantonio and Izzo, and their willingness to work with the Sims family to allow Dion his dream of attempting to [...]
Delvon Roe Update: Ankle Edition
Posted in news, tagged delvon roe, injuries on December 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I had really hoped we were done with the Delvon Roe injury updates . . . The LSJ is reporting (via Joe Rexrode’s blog) that Roe hasn’t practiced the last two days: Coach Tom Izzo said Roe is questionable as of today for Wednesday’s Big Ten opener at Minnesota and would be considered doubtful if [...]
"No member of the University community should experience this kind of injury."
Posted in news on December 23, 2008 | 10 Comments »
This is not the kind of story I tend to follow (sports are supposed to be an escape from reality), so I don’t know all of the details/speculation. That being the case, can someone explain to me why Glenn Winston is still on the MSU football team? And I’m not going to buy the “innocent [...]
Monday Night Links: The Return of Goran Draws Nigh
Posted in links, news, rankings update, stats analysis, tagged 3-point shooting, chris allen, durrell summers, goran suton, injuries on December 15, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Rankings Update MSU slid a bit to #19/22 in the polls. Apparently, the voters weren’t impressed by the 118 points against Alcorn State. We’re up to #28 in the Sagarin ratings, but still down at #39 under the Kenpom version. The Return of Goran Draws Nigh Goran Suton practiced today, and his knee was reportedly [...]
It's official: We're going to Disney World
Posted in news, tagged capital one bowl, football on December 7, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I’m not sure if they mentioned this during the basketball broadcast (my children were engaged in boisterous Sunday afternoon play at the time), but Coach Dantonio announced that MSU is going to the Capital One Bowl during a second-half time out. So, all you football experts out there, how nervous should we be about facing [...]
