Michigan State Spartans NCAA Basketball News

Michigan State needed Adreian Payne to return to school if they were going to make a run at a national title.

Four years after the death of his youngest son, Lou Dawkins is coaching at Northern Illinois.

As of now, Michigan State's starting lineup could look something like this: Adreian Payne , Branden Dawson , Alex Gauna/Matt Costello , Gary Harris and Keith Appling .

A game full of former Michigan State University all-star basketball players delighted a crowd of 300 at Cornerstone University Friday night.

Michigan State's Gary Harris is the best shooting guard in the nation and Michigan's Mitch McGary is the No.

Michigan State coach Tom Izzo challenged Adreian Payne as he was deciding between returning for his senior season and leaving for the NBA.

One thing we've learned about doing positional rankings for 2013-14. The college ranks will teem with talent this year.

Draymond Green graduated, went to the NBA, and left behind a locker-room power vacuum that coach Tom Izzo hoped would have been filled last season.

"He is the complete package as a college shooting guard," college basketball writer Mike DeCourcy wrote.

Sporting News rolls out its position-by-position player rankings today starting with point guards.

In November of 2011, Sporting News was among those privileged to be on board the USS Carl Vinson on a spectacular Friday evening in San Diego harbor for the first-ever Carrier Classic , a basketball game on the ship's deck between No.

Just because Michigan State loses only one starter off a team that went to the Sweet 16 doesn't mean the Spartans won't have to tweak how they play without graduated center Derrick Nix.

Michigan State coach Tom Izzo and his staff have made scouting trips, scholarships offers and in-home visits to some of the top prospects in the 2014 recruiting class.

The MSU assistant coach tempers that enthusiasm a little bit, though, as its still five months before the regular season begins and the Spartans have lot of work to do.

Chicago Morgan Park's Josh Cunningham, right, shoots over Cahokia's Vincent Jackson Jr. during a game March 16, 2013, in Peoria, Ill.

Keith Appling and Adreian Payne have gone to three NCAA tournaments in as many years during their Michigan State careers, including two straight Sweet 16 appearances.

The Michigan State Spartans basketball coach always seems to have the guy who plays like he's supposed to, but there also seems to be one each year who plays better than expected.

MSU men's basketball coach Tom Izzo shares a laugh with Jennifer Johnson, human resources manager for Suburban Sports Group of Farmington, after a program at the Detroit Economic Club luncheon Tuesday.

The Iowa Hawkeyes' mens basketball team will be looking to make their first NCAA tournament appearance since 2006 in the upcoming 2013-2014 season.

Iowa's Aaron White pulls down a rebound in front of Michigan State's Adreian Payne during an NCAA college basketball game Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013 at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City.