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10 days ago
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espn.go.com —
This Michigan State team has a world of potential. Gary Harris and Adreian Payne were potential first-rounders in this upcoming draft, but they opted to return to East Lansing. They want the opportunity to cut down the nets in Cowboys Stadium in 2014. They are dedicated to wearing the green and white, and this team has a chance to be very special.
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10 days ago
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msuspartans.com —
Michigan State will host North Carolina in the 2013 Big Ten/ACC Challenge on Wednesday, December 4. The two teams are meeting for the fifth time in the challenge history, making UNC MSU's most played opponent in the 15-year history of the challenge.
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10 days ago
mlive.com —
Vitale, who was in Grand Rapids on Tuesday to talk to the Chamber of Commerce, told FOX-17, WXMI-TV that the Spartans will be in his top two of his preseason rankings.
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11 days ago
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Former Indiana Mr. Basketball and B1G Freshman of the Year at Michigan State took some time to chat with Dan about deciding to stay his freshman year, what made him make the decision and how he is working out twice a day to get better for next season.
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12 days ago
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mlive.com —
Matt Costello is on the clock, and Alex Gauna will be pushing hard. The first and most obvious question Michigan State basketball faces next season will be replacing departed senior center Derrick Nix.
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12 days ago
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mlive.com —
Tom Izzo wants a healthy basketball team next season, that much he makes clear up front. But even with all of his players on the floor, the Spartans had their challenges at times, and Izzo got right to the point with where the improvement needs to start during last Thursday's ESPNU's podcast with analysts Andy Katz and Seth Greenberg.
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13 days ago
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freep.com —
There is a reason Draymond Green fell to the second round in last year’s NBA draft. It’s just that no one can remember it. Not now, not after the 6-foot-7, 230-pound power forward jumped off the bench to help save Golden State’s season last week. Not after the former Michigan State All-America barreled into crunch time as the Warriors’ lead was slipping and played with the guts of a 10-year veteran late Thursday night.
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13 days ago
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freep.com —
Before Derrick Nix received his bachelor’s degree Saturday, 37 Michigan State basketball predecessors did the same under Tom Izzo. Still, this one felt like a big one around the MSU basketball offices and the Clara Bell Smith academic center – and not just because Nix is 6-foot-9 and around 275 pounds. He was not a strong or especially interested student when he arrived from Detroit Pershing, and his missteps in East Lansing were well-documented. But so was his significant all-around growth into a team captain, quality player and owner of a sociology degree.
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13 days ago
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mlive.com —
Asked during an ESPN Podcast with Andy Katz and Seth Greenberg what would be one area he would want to shore up, Izzo alluded to the health issues that prevented Michigan State from ever really getting on track last season.
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14 days ago
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mlive.com —
Tom Izzo is mixing it up on the recruiting trails with his fellow future hall of fame coaches, wedging his way into the battle for the services of the best prospect in the Class of 2014, Jahlil Okafor. According to a Chicago Sun-Times Season Pass story, Izzo made an in-home visit to the Okafors last week, as did Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski and Kansas coach Bill Self.
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14 days ago
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freep.com —
Tom Izzo turned down a position in the NBA, more than once, yet it remains a regular part of his thought process as a college coach. His Michigan State players want jobs in it. Conventional NCAA tournament wisdom says a college team needs at least three players with futures in it to win a national championship. And prospects talk about it as much as anything when comparing their college options.
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14 days ago
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freep.com —
Midnight Madness events could be sprinkled through the month of October under an NCAA rule change, but the point of the change is to give players a break. The Legislative Council finalized last week a measure that will allow teams to start practicing six weeks before the season starts — two weeks earlier than before. There will still be 30 practice days, but that can now be spread out, and first practices can be held on the Friday closest to Oct. 1 rather than the Friday closest to Oct. 15.
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14 days ago
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detroitnews.com —
Getting to the NBA no longer is the key. Sticking there, rather, is the bigger hurdle to overcome and that was at least of some concern to both Payne and Tom Izzo, not to mention Payne's high school coaches Art Winston and Mark Parker.
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15 days ago
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theonlycolors.com —
To offer or not to offer Tyler Ulis? That had been the question but it appears MSU has reached an answer as a report came out tonight that Coach Izzo has extended an invitation to this dynamic Chicago floor general.
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