While the men’s basketball team took center stage last week as its season tipped off with Colgate and No. 14 Arkansas, Michigan State women’s basketball also got its start, beating both opponents rather quietly.
Robyn Fralick’s squad began the season ranked No. 23, and that was a big development for the program which had fallen on hard times under Suzy Merchant. Fralick is proving that she was the right hire to be the program’s next head coach because she already has the Spartans in the preseason AP Top 25 — something that seemingly hadn’t happened in what felt like an eternity under Merchant.