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Congratulations to the women’s team for knocking off #1 seeded Duke last night. The perfect homecoming for Joanne P. McCallie–from a Spartan perspective.
I’d say more, but I don’t know any more.  I have to confess I only saw the last 10 minutes of the game–and that was purely by accident.  Those of you who are [...]

Detroit Pershing center Derrick Nix was named Michigan’s high school Mr. Basketball today.  Nix is the first MSU commitment to win the award since Drew Neitzel won it in 2004.  He will become the sixth Michigan Mr. Basketball–and the tenth Mr. Basketball from any state–to play for the Spartans during Tom Izzo’s 14-year head coaching [...]

The three days between the NCAA bracket getting revealed and tournament play actually starting are always a tough stretch to get through for us hoops junkies (NIT games just don’t cut it).  Here something to watch tonight to get us warmed up for MSU’s tournament run:
WLNS TV 6 NCAA Special
Posted: March 16, 2009 10:49 AM [...]

. . . now THAT’S a Tuffy!
What’s to be done about hanging a banner?
Certainly, he [Tom Izzo] doesn’t want to show any disrespect to the Boilermakers, or fire them up, by dropping the banner before the game. And, such a ceremony might feel hollow if MSU loses to a motivated Purdue team, which is playing [...]

This is technically a football commitment, which I don’t typically cover.  But Dion Sims clearly wants to be a Division 1 college basketball player:
In the end, the difference was the joint effort of Coaches Dantonio and Izzo, and their willingness to work with the Sims family to allow Dion his dream of attempting to play [...]

I had really hoped we were done with the Delvon Roe injury updates . . .
The LSJ is reporting (via Joe Rexrode’s blog) that Roe hasn’t practiced the last two days:
Coach Tom Izzo said Roe is questionable as of today for Wednesday’s Big Ten opener at Minnesota and would be considered doubtful if the forward [...]