Gabe Brown has had a relatively quiet season. That changed last week — albeit for a day — when Brown made waves across social media for two reasons: His hype man celebration that spread like wildfire and his breakout performance in the NCAA Tournament.
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MSU advances to Elite 8 with wire-to-wire win over LSU Spartan Tailgate
Know the phrase “It was over before it started?” Michigan State’s Sweet 16 matchup with LSU wasn’t that. To be precise, it was over 1 minute, 9 seconds into the game, after Aaron Henry made a pair of jumpers, one from 3-point range. The result of Henry’s first couple shots typically portend the kind of game he’s going to have.
Freshmen lead Michigan State past LSU and into Elite Eight mlive.com
Thirty-seven games into the season, this Michigan State team keeps finding ways to win games and advance deeper into the NCAA Tournament. The No. 2 seed Spartans used career games from two freshmen to blow by No. 3 LSU, 80-63, in a Friday night Sweet 16 matchup at Capital One Arena.
Aaron Henry, Michigan State top LSU, 80-63, to reach Elite Eight Detroit Free Press
It took Michigan State basketball less than 2 minutes to make its presence known to LSU. Aaron Henry. Boom. Boom. Cassius Winston. Boom. It took another 2-minute stretch to put away the Tigers. Gabe Brown. Winston. Henry. Kenny Goins. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. The Spartans are heading back to the Elite Eight.
Elite company: Michigan State heads to last eight after rolling past LSU Detroit News
After three straight years of NCAA Tournament frustration, Michigan State now finds itself one step from the Final Four. Behind career nights from freshmen Aaron Henry and Gabe Brown, No. 2 Michigan State jumped out early on No. 3 LSU in the East Region semifinals at Capital One Arena, pushed back a second-half surge from the Tigers and rolled to an 80-63 victory.
No. 2 Seed Michigan State Beats LSU, 80-63, Advances to Elite Eight MSU Official
Michigan State scored the first eight points of the game and never trailed on the way to an 80-63 win over No. 3 seed LSU in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament at Capital One Arena on Friday night.
Freshmen dominate LSU to advance to Elite Eight Spartan Avenue
Racing out to big leads have carried the Spartans over the past two tournament games and Michigan State used the momentum from the Minnesota win to race past an athletic LSU team. The Spartans knew they weren’t as athletic as LSU, but they dominated from start to finish — minus a stretch to start the second half to cut the lead to just four — and earned their first trip to the Elite Eight since 2014-15 when they last made a Final Four.
Couch: 3 quick takes on Michigan State basketball’s NCAA tournament win over LSU Lansing State Journal
1. We wondered all season if Aaron Henry could arrive in time. He did.
2. Freshman thoughts – the LSU Sweet 16 edition
3. Finally, a swing at Duke. Or a curveball.
MSU smothers LSU to move on to the Elite-8 The Only Colors
Yesterday in the locker room I talked with Matt McQuaid, Gabe Brown, and Aaron Henry, I asked each of them if they were especially “up” for their positional match-up with some talented, athletic, NBA-aura wings. They all demurred talking about defending and rebounding.
Spartans pound glass with venom in taking down Tigers Detroit News
Tom Izzo wanted one part of the game plan to get through loud and clear to his team. So, as No. 2 Michigan State spent the couple days getting ready to take on No. 3 LSU in the East Region semifinals of the NCAA Tournament, the Spartans coach had signs posted all around the locker room and the team hotel. They had a simple message. “Cut out and rebound. Cut out and rebound. Cut out and rebound,” Izzo said.
Merciless Spartans show they can take on anything — even Duke Detroit News
Challenge the Spartans. Go ahead, challenge them. Wear them down with injuries, throw a tall, talented opponent at them, see if they can handle it. Oh, they can handle just about anything right now.
Tom Izzo executing one of his best performances in Elite Eight run CBS Sports
Tom Izzo did a good job of hyping up LSU prior to Friday night’s East Regional semifinal. He suggested the Tigers were more talented and more athletic than the Spartans, even exhibiting some of the same characteristics of early-2000s Michigan State teams. If he was adding more fuel to the fire for his team, after already putting up signs all around the hotel and locker room to rebound, the message was heard.
Between a Big Ten regular season title, a Big Ten tournament title, three wins over Michigan and now, a Sweet 16 berth, there’s been plenty for Michigan State players to celebrate over the last month. That means Marcus Bingham Jr. and Gabe Brown have been busy.
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As Gabe Brown watched Kyle Ahrens lay on the court in front of him — Ahrens clutching his ankle, wailing from pain and heartbreak — Brown realized, in an instant, his life had changed, too.
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Gabe Brown opens up about his family and basketball while the Michigan State Spartans head to the Big Ten Tournament with their eyes on another Championship.
Marcus Bingham Jr. is about to lose his dance partner, at least temporarily. Gabe Brown and his fellow freshman have combined for Michigan State’s most demonstrative bench celebrations, almost as if they’re competing to out-hype one another.
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Special Guest: Recruiting Coordinator Doug Wojcik discusses the Win over Wisconsin and the upcoming matchup against Ohio State. Players Interviewed: Freshman Guard Foster Loyer and Freshman Forward Gabe Brown
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Tom Izzo knows if he was in the same position as Joshua Langford, he’d be “ticked off at the world.” The Michigan State coach made that admission on Tuesday, the day before the Spartans found out Langford would need surgery to repair a stress reaction in his ankle and would be lost for the remainder of the season.
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As Michigan State continues to work through the gauntlet of the Big Ten schedule without Joshua Langford, Tom Izzo is finding out that he has two freshman players who appear to be transforming into Spartans quickly and effectively.
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In the one-and-done era of college basketball, rarely are freshmen allowed time to mature into solid basketball players. Instead, nearly every first-year player is judged against the select few that are using college as merely a pit-stop for one season, ready to head to the NBA after likely picking up plenty of individual accolades during their short time on whatever campus they might call home.
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Henry and Brown have been thrust into major minutes — and a starting role in Henry’s case — because of injuries to junior Joshua Langford and redshirt junior Kyle Ahrens. Including McQuaid, MSU has three healthy scholarship wings right now. Izzo had no update Monday on the status of Langford and Ahrens, indicating Henry will again be in the starting role Thursday at Nebraska.
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Michigan State won on the road Sunday at Penn State with a lineup much more dependent on first-year players than at any point this season. Expect the same thing when No. 6 Michigan State travels to Nebraska on Thursday as junior Joshua Langford almost certainly will miss his fifth game with an ankle injury, and fellow junior Kyle Ahrens is day-to-day with a back sprain.
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Michigan State’s freshmen had a solid first outing in Spartans uniforms, combining for 29 points in a 93-47 Spartans winBut that was against a Division 2 team at home. And when the Spartans take on No. 1 Kansas on Tuesday in the Champions Classic, it could be a different story if some of those freshmen step onto the court.
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But while the 2018 class might be missing a high school All-American, that hardly means its devoid of talent. In fact, the Spartans had the 17th-ranked class in the nation, according to 247sports.com, while three players were ranked as four-star prospects.
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The Spartans’ incoming freshman looks like he’s having the most fun out on the court, even when he’s tussling with his MSU teammates
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Among the first tasks for Michigan State’s freshmen upon arriving on campus earlier this summer was to hop on a scale for their first official weigh-in as a member of the team. And for three of those freshmen, a second task came shortly thereafter: make that number on the scale bigger. For three of Michigan State’s incoming freshmen — Foster Loyer, Gabe Brown and Marcus Bingham — putting on more weight has been a key offseason emphasis on the road to potential playing time in 2018-19.
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“The eye-opening difference is you got to be tough to play Big Ten basketball, that’s what I know,” Brown told The Detroit News. “That’s what they teach me every day — you’ve got to be tough. If you’re not tough, then you can’t play. And Coach, he pushes every day to be tougher. He wants us to be tougher every day. That’s one of the major things I had to realize.”
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Gabe Brown isn’t shy. During a break in play in the Moneyball Pro-Am at Aim High Sports in Dimondale Thursday night, the Michigan State freshman forward spent the moment showcasing a few dance moves. At halftime, when kids paid $2 apiece to launch half-court shots, he stood alongside feeding them the ball and delivering high-fives. However, Brown also admits to having a bit of a nasty side. He flashed it against, of all people, one of his new teammates.
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Aaron Henry, Foster Loyer, Gabe Brown, Thomas Kithier, and Marcus Bingham Jr. are among the newest Spartans making a splash in the Moneyball summer league.
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When Michigan State signed all five members of its 2018 recruiting class last November, it didn’t come with quite the same amount of buzz the previous two classes created.
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