Michigan State Spartans NCAA Basketball News

The Detroit Pistons' 12-man summer league team is beginning its five game schedule Friday in Las Vegas.

If the spring is like the regular season on the summer basketball circuit, the month of July is playoff time.

It's starting to feel like the summer of 2001 all over again. The Pistons on Tuesday passed on hiring Avery Johnson as their next head coach.

As the sea of green eagerly waits the last 14 seconds to tick down, Tom Izzo's Spartans are locked in as usual... by Zane Mosqueda 20 reads Preview/Prediction July 04, 2009 As the sea of green eagerly waits the last 14 seconds to tick down, Tom Izzo's Spartans are locked in as usual.

If Tom Izzo had a say, Michigan State would land in the 10-15 range in the preseason polls - the perfect place to avoid wild expectations while maintaining solid exposure.

Travis Walton gave them some pointers, then the young basketball players at the Big Reds Basketball Camp at Sexton High showed what they learned.

Patrick Beverley's circuitous basketball route may have reached its ultimate destination.

Four former Spartans will watch tonight's NBA draft with keen interest tonight, although only one of them - Goran Suton - has a chance to be selected.

Leading up to Thursday's NBA Draft, most league experts predicted in their mock drafts that University of Utah center Luke Nevill would go unselected.

Tyler Hansbrough brushes off the idea that he brings little to the NBA other than relentless determination.

Goran Suton has flown a lot recently, and not under the radar. The former Michigan State center hopes to be selected in Thursday's two-round NBA draft, and perhaps with good reason.

Goran Suton had a rare bit of downtime last week when he stopped for dinner at Red Lobster in Oklahoma City.

The worst day might have been the first day, in December 2005, after school in an empty locker room at Cedar Springs High.

The Michigan State men's basketball team advanced to its first NCAA championship game since 2000 after beating Connecticut, 82-73, on April 4. That win, along with the Spartans' Sweet 16 victory over Kansas, are among nominees in the Game of the Year category in the Big Ten Network awards show tonight.

We're still waiting on some underclassmen to make up their minds about leaving for the NBA draft, so while we wait, let's look back to last season's national final.

's inaugural professional basketball season was a good-news, bad-news, good-news scenario.

Tim Floyd submitted his resignation Tuesday and Athletic Director Mike Garrett accepted it so fast he probably got a paper cut snapping it out of the fax machine.

THE GOOD NEWS: Seven of Michigan State 's top nine players return, and six of those were freshmen or sophomores who keyed the run to the NCAA title game.

Danny Ainge spent four days at Minneapolis' Target Center last week, getting a lot more done than the previous week at the Chicago pre-draft camp.

The freshmen are ready to work, the tender-footed guards are getting their bounce back, and the big man with the skinny frame is starting to see his 5,000 calories a day take hold.