Suzy Merchant will not be on the bench Wednesday night when the Michigan State women’s basketball team plays at Purdue. Associate head coach Amaka Agugua will fill in for Merchant against Purdue and for as long as Merchant is recovering. There has been no timetable set for her return.
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In order to get to know Rutgers a little better and help Michigan State fans prepare for the upcoming game, we have brought in Aaron Breitman from On the Banks to answer some burning questions.
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Freshman Nick Ward continues to be unguardable, winning another Big Ten Freshman Of The Week award honors. Cassius Winston continues to improve as a distributor at the point guard position. The emergence of senior Alvin Ellis III as a scoring threat for Michigan State continues to help the Spartans as the young group of freshmen mature.
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Hunter Rison and his father, legendary Michigan State and NFL receiver Andre Rison, talked it over. High school was over for the son. It was time to become a Spartan. “It was a decision me and my dad made,” Hunter Rison said, “and it’s here now.”
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Miles Bridges is expected to return to a Michigan State team that’s sitting atop the Big Ten and getting better daily. A Rutgers program that still hasn’t found its footing in its new conference seems like a perfect opponent for Bridges to reintroduce himself with his teammates.
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Michigan State will begin the road portion of the Big Ten schedule, taking on Purdue on Jan. 4 in West Lafayette, Indiana, at 6 p.m. After a loss to then-No. 2 Notre Dame on Dec. 20, the Spartans responded with a dominating 71-47 win over Illinois in the B1G home opener on New Year’s Day. The game will be streamed on BTN Plus. MSU is currently 11-3 overall this season and 1-0 in Big Ten action.
Tom Izzo says he’s on a campaign to get rid of the noise. The noise is all the talk from outside of a team’s inner circle — social media, regular media, friends and any other distracting influence. All coaches attempt this to one degree or another, but Izzo says he’s committed to cutting it out from his Michigan State basketball team. Alvin Ellis III was, in Izzo’s opinion, once a victim of the noise. Not anymore, he says, which is why the senior guard is playing his best at the most opportune time.
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You might not realize it just looking at his offensive production, but Michigan State freshman Joshua Langford has taken major steps forward the last two weeks, as far as head coach Tom Izzo is concerned.
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Tom Anastos met with the media in his weekly press conference to discuss the GLI and preview this weekend’s trip to Wisconsin.
Just one week into the Big Ten season, three teams sit atop the standings without a loss.That’s what most expected. What wasn’t expected, however, were the teams sitting in that position. Wisconsin has played once and it was a win, but that’s where the status quo ends. Instead of Indiana and Purdue joining the Badgers as the expected front-runners, it’s Nebraska and Michigan State that are both 2-0 in conference play.
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Michigan State looks to improve on its 2-0 conference mark as it hosts Rutgers in the Spartans first game of 2017. MSU opened Big Ten play with a pair of victories against teams that currently own a combined 25-5 mark. Wednesdays game is also expected to mark the return of MSUs leading scorer Miles Bridges, after he missed the last seven games with a left ankle injury.
Will Tieman gets Coach Izzo’s thoughts on the crazy start to the Big Ten Basketball Season
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Jordan Reid hails from the prestigious Cass Tech High School in Detroit. Cass Tech has long been a pipeline for Michigan with the Spartans rarely getting any recruits from there. However, that trend has been changing in the last many years with Mark Dantonio working hard for Michigan State recruiting. Reid will join former Cass Tech lineman Dennis Finely.
Source: Michigan State Recruiting: Breaking down OG Jordan Reid’s game
It can be tough to sort through the jumble that is a college football roster. Who’s on scholarship? Who walked on? Whose eligibility matches his year in school? Whose doesn’t? We thought we’d help you sort things out. Michigan State currently has 17 commits to its 2017 recruiting class, three of whom have signed their Big Ten tender to enroll early.
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The 2016-17 National Football League regular season has officially come to an end and this year the Spartans were taking over. Around the league, former Michigan State Spartans had outstanding seasons, some earning them new max contracts. Rookies to veterans, here are some of the standout Spartans during this year’s NFL season.
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Michigan State is again bringing back its best player early in Big Ten play after an absence of a few weeks, as freshman Miles Bridges prepares to return on Wednesday when the Spartans play Rutgers (6:30 p.m., BTN).
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Satchmo and DB briefly recap Michigan State’s woeful 2016 before launching into their hopes for Spartan sports in 2017, examining the state of the Spartan basketball team and discussing the Big Ten bowl season.
The obvious numbers might not say it, but the peripherals surrounding Joshua Langford point to a freshman transitioning into the next phase of his college career. Michigan State’s wing guard scored just one bucket in Friday’s 61-52 win over Northwestern, but Langford also grabbed four rebounds, had two assists and collected two steals in a turnover-free 27 minutes.
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Oliver Martin has opted to stay very quiet during his recruitment and has spurned just about every interview request. While down in San Antonio, however, he has no choice but to face the swarms of media who will surely take this opportunity to ask him anything and everything about the process.
Source: Michigan State recruiting notebook: The latest in Spartans recruiting