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This is a list of Michigan State Spartans' varsity and club athletic team national championships and runner-up finishes. Michigan State University has 29 varsity sports teams that compete under the Spartan nickname.
In the national championship game, the Spartans triumphed over the Florida Gators 89–76, despite losing Cleaves to an ankle injury 3:42 into the second half. [54] The win marked MSU's second national championship in basketball and Izzo's first and only championship to date.
Munn was named the AFCA Coach of the Year, coaching MSU to 9–0 record and a national championship. 1953 In 1953, Michigan State's first year of conference play in the Big Ten, the Spartans shared the conference title with Illinois and went to the Rose Bowl, where they beat UCLA, 28–20. On October 24, 1953, Purdue upset the Spartans 6–0 ...
The lone top-seed remaining would bring order to a tournament filled with upsets as they salted away the victory for the school's second national championship . Michigan State coach Tom Izzo earned his first title in his second straight final four appearance. Morris Peterson led the Spartans with 21 points. [12]
The Wisconsin loss extended the Big Ten Conference's losing streak in national championship games to six. As of 2015, Michigan State is the last Big Ten team to win a National Championship, having done so in 2000.
North Carolina won the game 89–72, as Tyler Hansbrough's 18 points, Wayne Ellington's 19 points, and Ty Lawson's 21 points all led to the rout of Michigan State to win the national championship. [17] By beating Michigan State by 17, North Carolina became the 1st team since Duke in 2001 to win