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A lot has changed in one week, as the MSU women’s basketball team (17-10 overall, 9-5 Big Ten) enters the final week of the regular season tied for third place in the conference after beating No. 17 Purdue on Sunday, 67-52.
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“We’ve been able to work both sides of the ball and really be aggressive and compete a little bit more, and I feel like everybody’s gotten better this week,” Suzy Merchant said. “I use the acronym ‘FEET.’ To me, we want focus, we want energy, we want effort and we want toughness. That’s what we need in the postseason to win, so that’s what we wanted out of every practice. We kept talking about FEET, FEET, FEET, FEET.”
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Although the MSU women’s basketball team (11-5, 3-0) entered this season with a conference title to defend, many didn’t consider this year’s team to be a contender. The Spartans lost three seniors — who played major minutes — to graduation, including conference Player of the Year Kalisha Keane.
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Senior Taylor Alton will represent the Michigan State women's basketball program next week at the 2012 State Farm College Slam Dunk and 3-Point Championships, held Thursday, March 29 in New Orleans. The 24th annual event will air at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN.
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Merchant and Poole shared a large embrace as soon as the game ended, and Merchant said she was confident Poole would come through in the game’s final moments. “She’s got a poise about her. … I wasn’t worried about not getting a shot off,” she said. “Maybe (if it was) somebody else I’d (have been) a little more worried about it, but she’s got a way of getting her own shot off, so we took the chance, and obviously it was a big play.”
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After winning three straight games with a new starting lineup, MSU women’s basketball (15-10 overall, 7-5 Big Ten) head coach Suzy Merchant thought her team had moved past the bad habits that dug it a hole in the conference standings. But following a 74-57 loss to Iowa (16-10, 8-5) on Sunday, Merchant said she was frustrated to see some of those discouraging trends beginning to re-emerge.
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The Badgers enter the week on a three-game losing streak, bringing their record to 8-16 overall and 4-8 in Big Ten play. Taylor Wurtz leads Wisconsin offensively, with 16.2 points, good for seventh in the conference, and 7.4 rebounds.
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Michigan State women's basketball head coach Suzy Merchant held her weekly press conference on Monday at Breslin Center. Merchant addressed the team's play through its first three Big Ten games, in addition to looking forward to this week's home games against Indiana on Thursday and Ohio State on Sunday.
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The Hoosiers finished the Big Ten season with a 1-15 record and enter the tournament at 6-23 overall. Indiana is led by Aulani Sinclair who is averaging 12.7 points. Sasha Chaplin is tops on the boards with 6.7 a game, while Andrea Newbauer is ninth in the conference with 4.0 assists. Indiana is last in the conference in both points scored (57.2) and points allowed (68.1).
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