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Michigan State is fit to be a champion

Friday, January 20th, 2006

CNNSI’s Grant Wahl, in his college basketball mailbag, listed eight teams from which the national champion will come. The Spartans were the sixth team listed… along with Connecticut, Duke, Florida, Indiana, LSU, Villanova, and West Virginia.
We hesitated a long time before going with the Spartans, mainly because their defense is so uncharacteristically suspect. And […]

Izzo attends high school basketball game in Georgia

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

As many Spartan fans know, Tom Izzo has been cleaning up the recruiting trail, receiving commitments from several highly rated prep players. One major target is junior star Chris Allen, who has narrowed his list down to Georgia and Michigan State. Allen is holding a press conference on Thursday to announce where he […]

Spartans grind out 2 OT victory in Columbus

Monday, January 16th, 2006

Road wins in the Big Ten are a tough commodity to come by. That’s even more the case when the opponent is a legitimate Big Ten title contender like Ohio State. In today’s Lansing State Journal, Tom Izzo talked about how his Spartans grinded out Sunday’s 2OT, 62-59 win over the Buckeyes.

During one of […]

Spartans get crucial must-win victory over Hoosiers

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

Michigan State isn’t ready to roll over and play dead just yet in this season’s Big Ten title race. The Breslin Center provided the edge that MSU needed to blow out a depleted Indiana team 87-73. Dave Dye of the Detroit News reports that this win could help get MSU back on track.
Seniors […]