lansingstatejournal.com —
It’s still worth mentioning that MSU played awfully well for some extended stretches before Dawson emerged. Take this team as is, give it a No. 2 seed (which MSU likely will get unless it bombs at the Big Tournament on Friday against Iowa or Illinois), equip it with the usual Izzo-March preparation swagger and it might still be able to do something.
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The Canton Charge announced that they have acquired guard/forward Alan Anderson (6’6”, 220, Michigan State), forward Shane Edwards (6-8, 220, Arkansas-Little Rock) and guard/forward Quinton Ross (6’6”, 194, SMU).
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“Yes,” he says when asked about a Final Four possibility for the Spartans. “I don’t think Michigan State is the best team; I think Kentucky and Syracuse are better. I think UNC might be a little bit better, too, but besides, that I don’t really favor anyone (over them). I’ve really been pleasantly surprised at the strides Adreian Payne and Derrick Nix have made this year. They’ve gotten better and better, very poised in the post and have improved a great deal, and that’s been the difference for this team. It’s really a connected group.”
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Brandon Wood's brief career as a sixth man at Michigan State appears to be over. Freshman Branden Dawson's season-ending knee injury will "likely" prompt Wood's return to the starting lineup, coach Tom Izzo said Wednesday.
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"I would be the first to agree that we haven't done as well as we've done in everything else," Izzo said this week, on the eve of the 15th Big Ten tournament, where the Spartans will be the top seed, beginning with Friday's noon tipoff in Indianapolis against either Iowa or Illinois. "The regular season has been better. The NCAA tournament run has been better. But it's not because I go golfing this week."
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Michigan State opens the 2012 Big Ten Tournament as the No. 1 seed after sharing the Big Ten regular-season championship with Ohio State and Michigan. This is the fourth time the Spartans hold the No. 1 seed. In their first game, the Spartans will face the winner of Thursday's Iowa/Illinois first-round game. MSU was 1-0 this season vs. Iowa, defeating the Hawkeyes in East Lansing, while going 0-1 vs. Illinois, falling to the Fighting Illini in Champaign.
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Even with NCAA tournament bids secure, the league's top teams likely are headed to Indianapolis with something to prove. "Something we haven't done in 11 years is win the Big Ten tournament," Spartans senior Draymond Green said. "So that's our focus. We want to keep trying to leave a different footprint in the sand. That's another way to do it."
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Despite not making a field goal in the final 9:16, Iowa was able to survive a late rally by Illinois for a 64-61 win in the first round of the Big Ten tournament. The eighth-seeded Hawkeyes will face top-seeded MSU on Friday at noon.
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Iowa hasn’t forgotten when it went to East Lansing in January, and Michigan State delivered a beatdown so frustrating to Hawkeyes coach Fran McCaffery that he picked up a folding chair and slammed it to the floor. “That was the news, and that we got killed,” guard Josh Oglesby recalled.
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