2011 Gatorade Ohio Boys Basketball Player of the Year as a senior at Wayne High School. Next season, they'll be joined by Kenny Kaminski who earned second-team all-state honors as a prep junior last year at Medina. Other Spartans from Ohio under coach...

Final Fours in 2009 and 2010? Both of those squads strongly resemble the current crop of Jayhawks. Not one single player from these Michigan State teams is in the NBA. Seriously. But those players were tough as nails. There was nothing particularly...

...five wins over ranked teams away from home: 1) No. 9 Purdue Kalin Lucas, right, scored a career-high 30 points in a 74-56 Big Ten quarterfinal win March 11. 2) No. 13 Washington Lucas scored 29 points in a 76-71 win in the Maui Invitational's third-place...

GU hit two free throws and MSU called a timeout. Coach Tom Izzo drew up a play to get Durrell Summers a 3-pointer and he knocked it down to give MSU a 68-67 lead with 3:02 remaining. MSU's defense forced a miss and Kalin Lucas hit one of two free throws.

Indiana, Georgia and Florida. Arguably the two most impressive recruits from out-of-state are Se'von Pittman from Canton, Ohio, and Macgarrett Kings Jr. from Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Pittman, who hails from the same high school that produced former MSU...

He told me 'You're not smiling like you used to ... you're not playing with the same energy you used to play with.'" His energy certainly picked up. Just six-and-a-half minutes into the first half, Green had already hit a milestone. His first two...