Asst. Managing Editor
@SpartansRivals
. Ex-pat Michigander; transportation policy/aviation nerd; husband to
@bradgilligan
🏳️🌈; Beagle dad. Opinions are my own
Michigan State-Duke is the second most occurring matchup in NCAA history with seven as of this Sunday. Ahead of the Spartans-Blue Devils is Marquette-Kentucky at 10.
Craziest part, though? All seven have occurred starting with 1994 tourney, so six are Izzo-Coach K.
Nebraska has officially swept Iowa in men's basketball for the first time ever in Big Ten play! Not only that, the Cornhuskers defeated the Hawkeyes in football this season as well for a perfect season in the two revenue sports of the league.
This is a great example of why you should prioritize local writers over national. MSU moved from "MAC" to "MSC" in 1925. It became MSU (Michigan State University of Agriculture and Applied Science) in 1955 and simply MSU in 1964.
Michigan State moves to 1-1 in Big Ten play and 11-2 on the season overall with a 98-87 win at Penn State today.
Spartans have now won three-straight over the Lady Lions, including four-straight in University Park and eight of the last 10 in the series overall.
Spartans win! MSU snaps a seven-game losing streak to the Maryland Terrapins with a 74-69 victory tonight at the Breslin Center!
Moira Joiner and Julia Ayrault lead MSU in scoring with 20 points apiece as MSU improves to 12-3, 2-2 in Big Ten play.
Per
@reporterdavidj
, Michigan State will announce Kevin Guskiewicz as its new President on Friday morning.
The current UNC-Chapel Hill chancellor, Guskiewicz has spent the past 26 years teaching at UNC.
MSU fans happy with that W by the men’s team, don’t forget to flip that tv over to the Big Ten Network where the women are leading Penn State 21-15 late in the first quarter at the Bryce Jordan Center.
Heard is a Farmington Hills native and posted 85 tackles, 4 TFLs, and 1 INT this season.
Multi-year starter for NU and one of the top defensive backs in the Big Ten this past season.
Michigan State women's basketball has hired its next head coach according to reports, per
@DBriggsBlade
. Robyyn Fralick will be heading to East Lansing after five seasons with Bowling Green.
Attendance for the season shows second-year head coach
@LeahJohnson_VB
has
@MSU_Volleyball
humming in terms of fan interest with the Spartans finishing the regular season with the sixth highest home attendance for the year, and fourth highest in the Big Ten.
If your brand isn't good enough for the Champions Classic, best to focus on your apparel logo's brand and create your own event to sell overpriced gear to fans in greater quantity.
Florida, Oklahoma, Michigan, and North Carolina will headline the first ever Jumpman Invitational, per release. Event will be held in Charlotte in 2022 and feature both men's and women's programs.
Michigan State snapped a three-game losing streak to Michigan in dominating fashion Saturday, defeating the Wolverines 82-61 to improve to 74-25 all-time over UM.
DeeDee Hagemann led MSU with 20 points as the Spartans improve to 15-5 (5-4) on the season.
While the offense is bleak at this point, true freshman Jordan Hall is making noise on the defensive side for Michigan State. Hall has five tackles (four solo), two sacks for 19 yards, and a fumble recovery thus far.
Izzo up now. Gives all the credit to Maryland after being 15 up, but MSU couldn’t close it out. Terps got all the loose balls and rebounds while Spartans had bad plays.
Victory for
@MSU_WBasketball
! Just the 11th time in program history the Spartans have knocked off a top-5 team, beating previously undefeated No. 4 Indiana 83-78!
@slmandel
I mean, sure, if you take both the economics of the sports and facilities issues out of context with 4th grade level logic.
Obviously sucks, but maybe you’d like to change how swimming & diving facilities get paid for with your own fundraising campaign?
Anytime I am confused by the CFP rankings, clarity is brought by remembering this year’s chair is the man who agrees to Kirk Ferentz’s contract extensions. Then it all makes sense once again.
Barta says there was a lot of discussion about moving Florida below Georgia, in part bc of how much better UGA has been with JT Daniels. But head to head result prevailed.
Also, noted UF didn't have Kyle Pitts last week.
Jeremy Fears is here in College Park with the team. The trip to the DMV region here marks his first time with the team since his harrowing encounter over the holidays.
Michigan State picks up its first Big Ten win of the season in an impressive 98-87 road victory at Penn State.
Six Spartans finished in double figures as the team improves to 11-2 overall and 1-1 in Big Ten action.
Click below for the recap:
Michigan State women's golf won the NCAA Palm Beach Regional, its first regional title in program history.
Led by sophomore Brooke Biermann's tie for first place, the Spartans advance to their 12th NCAA Championship in the past 25 seasons.
Michigan State women's basketball added a pair of 2025 commits Wednesday when
@AnnaTerrian32
&
@AmyTerrian
announced their verbals to the Spartans.
More on the news at
@SpartansRivals
:
Some challenges in world right now:
Ukraine
Israel-Hamas
Iran backed groups attacking US military personnel
China’s continued harassment of Filipino fisherman
Sudan
Mali
Pending US Govt. shutdown
Interest rates & nat. debt
Long list continues
Not a concern:
Harbaugh suspension
Countless members of the University of Michigan family have reached out to me over the weekend and I wanted to express my appreciation. Like any community, we face our share of challenges and adversity. There have been many such moments in our history. But as our team showed so
Career-highs of 27 & 17 points for Moira Joiner and Theryn Hallock respectively helped lead Michigan State to a 91-67 victory over Central Michigan Sunday.
The win also marks head coach Robyn Fralick's 200th career victory as MSU improves to 8-2 overall.
Michigan State (5-1) takes on DePaul (4-3) in Chicago tomorrow night.
The Spartans and the Blue Demons meet for the first time since 2002, a WNIT matchup in East Lansing that saw the Spartans victorious.
Catch the preview now:
MSU Hockey gets its first win over a No. 1 ranked team for the first time since 2009, defeating the Badgers 4-2 in the opening game of the weekend's series!
After
@SpartansRivals
was the first to report that Jonathan Smith was a target of interest, & again that he had interviewed for the Michigan State job, reports are out that Smith is the top candidate for the Spartans.
@JD_Jerbear
makes the case for Smith:
Michigan State women's basketball participated in Big Ten Media Days in Minneapolis today. Here's what head coach Robyn Fralick had to say about the program today as the team prepares for a tough B1G season ahead:
Michigan State received Letters of Intent Wednesday from Sinai Douglas, Helen Holley, and Juliann Woodard for its 2024 class.
The Spartans are hosting Wright State this afternoon at the Breslin Center looking to move to 2-0.
Javarius Green has announced his official visit to East Lansing next month.
@SpartansRivals
spoke with him about his interest in Michigan State in Atlanta back in April:
A number of high school prospects of interest for Michigan State fans were on hand Sunday in Atlanta at the Rivals Camp. Here's what they had to say about the Spartans:
Michigan State is set to resume Big Ten action tomorrow when the Spartans take on Penn State in University Park. Start time is set for 4 p.m. ET on the Big Ten Network, giving fans a doubleheader offering with the men's game.
Click below for game preview:
Michigan State WBB earned seven votes in this week's AP Poll released today, marking the ninth most of the 17 teams receiving votes.
It marks the first time MSU has appeared in the AP results this season. Last time the Spartans were ranked in AP was at No. 25 on Jan. 4, 2021.
Michigan State women's basketball picked up the verbal commitment of 2025 guard
@ode_jordan
Sunday.
More on the new guard for the '25 class on
@SpartansRivals
:
This is what happens when you never watch a game in person at a stadium during a multi-year construction project... Michigan State, Michigan, Indiana, Nebraska, LSU, Notre Dame... the list goes on from the past two decades of college football.
I have been informed the photos below are outdated and this is what Vanderbilt's stadium now looks like.
I realize this is a multi-year project but it's still bizarre to be playing football yards away from a construction zone.
MSU's
@CoachFralick
has been busy over the past month building out the team's roster to complement its existing makeup and the 2023 class.
@SpartansRivals
has an update on the latest for the team here:
Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo saw plenty of positives from his team despite a poor second half.
"Being in it 39 years, you kind of realize that ugly win is much better than a pretty loss and it was an ugly win."
More from Izzo on the victory 👇
For those struggling with geography (cough, introductions here in College Park), Mali is a country in the region of "Western Africa."
It is not a city in West Africa. West Africa is in fact a city in next door Burkina Faso.
Fun bonus fact: Mali is 48 times the size of Maryland.
Michigan State boasts impressive team effort in 91-72 victory over Northwestern Wednesday night, improving to 13-4 (3-3).
Six players posted double figures in scoring amongst 26 team assists.
Full recap available by clicking below:
Michigan State will host Wisconsin on Dec. 5
Spartans travel to Northwestern on Jan. 7
MSU at Michigan set for Feb. 17
MSU at Purdue is March 2
MSU at Indiana March 10 for regular season finale
Just in: NCAA announces the 2027-30 men's Final Four sites. For the first time ever, the Final Four will be played in Las Vegas
'27: Detroit
'28: Vegas
'29: Indianapolis
'30: Dallas
In a stunner, Atlanta, which missed the 2020 F4 due to COVID, did not get a F4 in this window.
The Spartans are fully 1/4 of the entire Peacock conference game total allotted to the platform under the new media rights deal with the Big Ten. NBC's platform is given 20 conference matchups per season and MSU is five of them.
The Michigan State women's basketball TV and broadcast schedule is out. The Spartans will have at least 10 games this season on either BTN or Peacock.
Catch the full schedule here:
A quick look through the replies shows it is a large number of Husker fans trolling the Maryland account. As someone who has covered Nebraska hoops for a now 4th season, my honest reaction is:
Michigan State has landed in Cedar Rapids ahead of tomorrow night’s game at No. 4/3 Iowa. The team is flying the same E190 as its trip to Penn State to end 2023.
Michigan State women’s basketball is off to Penn State ahead of tomorrow’s matchup at the Bryce Jordan Center.
Spartans are flying one of Breeze Airway’s E190s formerly belonging to Air Canada for this trip.
Michigan State blows away DePaul in a 102-64 victory Thursday night in the windy city. Moira Joiner's career high paced five Spartans in double figures as MSU improves to 6-1 on the season.
Boy this is some hot shooting for the
#Spartans
to start the game as they lead 17-5 on 3-3 shooting from 3, and are 7-8 overall. Can't ask for much better of a start.
@TheOnlyColors
Michigan State gets back above .500 with a 79-62 victory Monday night over Oakland.
Tyson Walker led the way as he broke into the Green & White's 1,000 point club amidst his 14-point performance.
Michigan State women’s basketball is in Chicago for a matchup against DePaul tomorrow night.
The Spartans got to ride in a Breeze Airways E190 first delivered to Air Canada back in July 2007, five years after the last meeting between these two programs.
Just four weeks from right now, Spartan fans will be enjoying tailgating ahead of the season opener against Western Michigan. The Broncos check in at No. 11 on my preseason countdown.
The full 12-game list is available here:
"For someone who walked into his first start in the Big Ten, you wouldn't have known that if you were watching the game."
Tre Mosley had plenty of praise for QB Katin Houser after Saturday's game at RU.
More from Houser and Mosley on MSU's performance: