Exhibition games are an important way to get any team, regardless of what sport, ready for stronger competition in the regular season.
MSU Basketball, coming off a Final Four run last season, will open up the 2015-16 campaign ranked No. 13 in nation by the AP Poll.
When Kenny Goins committed to Michigan State as a preferred-walk just before the 2014-2015 season, which saw an underdog Spartan team make the Final Four, he left a few Division I scholarship offers on the table.
With the rain coming down on a bleak fall day, a finally healthy MSU women’s basketball team gathered in the Breslin, looking to build off of last year’s unfortunate season.
When jokingly asked Wednesday if she was going to miss this past season’s role of taking upward of 30 shots a game, redshirt junior Aerial Powers replied "no" before the reporter could even finish his question.
It wasn't too long ago Javon Bess appeared to be on his way to a star studded college basketball career.
Deyonta Davis is a MSU freshman who was one of the most highly sought after recruits in the country, winning Mr. Basketball in the state of Michigan before committing to the Spartans.
MSU's Midnight Madness is a long held tradition for the basketball teams and is an unofficial kickoff to the new basketball season.
MSU Athletics has announced the lineup for the 2015 Midnight Madness event to kick off the men's basketball season.
The yearly Izzone campout is one of the few true bonding events where athletes get to engage with the fans. For men's basketball head coach Tom Izzo, this tradition means a lot for making life-long memories.
With the 2015-16 MSU basketball season right around the corner, the team's student section, the Izzone held it's annual Izzone campout for students hoping to secure premier seating in this years' games.
The highly-touted high school basketball prospect Miles Bridges has made his decision. Bridges, the ESPN 100 eighth ranked player in the class of 2016, will become a MSU Spartan. [ tweet ] Bridges, listed on ESPN at 6-foot-6, 225 pounds, is a scout-rated five star recruit who played his high school basketball in West Virginia at Huntington Prep.
MSU head basketball coach Tom Izzo talked to the media on Friday and intends to take the program to the next level.
Men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo announced sophomore guard Lourawls ‘Tum Tum’ Nairn Jr., senior forward Matt Costello and senior guard Denzel Valentine as the 2015-16 team captains today. Izzo said each year the captains are selected in a different fashion, but this year the players voted. “It was voted on this time, you know every year I do it a little differently to be honest with you, and they all got a lot of votes but you know (Valentine) got every vote on the team.
MSU basketball forward Kenny Goins has undergone a successful sports hernia surgery and is expected to be out of action for six weeks, the team announced Wednesday. Goins is coming into this season on scholarship after being redshirted as a preferred walk-on last year. Preseason practices for the Spartans begin this Friday, and they begin their season Nov.
CBS Sports recently crowned MSU as having the top head coaching duo in basketball and football with Tom Izzo and Mark Dantonio. The title is hard to argue against, given the amount of growth and accomplishment each program has had the last eight seasons – when Dantonio took the reigns of the football program. It is nearly impossible to refute Izzo’s resume as being one of the top coaches in college basketball.
Besides the annual kickoff to football season there is another annual fall tradition amongst MSU students; the opportunity to purchase tickets to the Izzone.
MSU basketball will be without sophomore forward Marvin Clark Jr. for 6-8 weeks due to a foot injury, according to Spartan Athletics.
Draymond Green had a homecoming this past weekend at MSU. After announcing on Thursday he donated $3.1 million to the men's basketball program to fund several Breslin Center renovations, he made a guest appearance on ESPN's College GameDay and a cameo during MSU football's 31-28 victory against Oregon.
Former MSU forward Draymond Green wanted to give back to the place that made him the player he is today.