With Jase Richardson entering the NBA draft, Tre Holloman in the portal and Jaden Akins graduating, Michigan State basketball has big shoes to fill.

Michigan State has blown this one open. There will be no upset for Bryant. Jaden Akins soars in for a slam down the left. It's 81-57 with 3:10 left. Bulldogs timeout. Spartans with 21 second ...

And yet? Someone, at some point, steps up. On Sunday night? First, Tre Holloman did. Then Jaden Akins did. Then Frankie Fidler did. Even Szymon Zapala did, after falling to the end of the rotation.

Jaden Akins scored 16 points, Tre Holloman added 14 and Fidler had 10 points. That helped offset a 1-for-10 shooting performance by Richardson, who scored all six of his points in the last 1:32 to ...

Because Jaden Akins and Tre Holloman were there to make sure this game went the right way. As were guys like Frankie Fidler and Szymon Zapala, two guys who are at the end of the rotation these days.

The 6-foot-2, 185-pound Minneapolis native shared the captaincy with departing senior Jaden Akins this winter. In MSU’s season-ending 70-64 loss to Auburn on Sunday, Holloman scored just ...

Michigan State senior guard Jaden Akins played his last game in a Spartan uniform, falling in the Elite Eight. His career was ...

MSU has three players out of eligibility, including mainstay shooting guard Jaden Akins, and are expected to see freshman ...

And it did late in the first half, to claw within two, and then in the middle of the second half, coming back from 49-41 to take a 51-50 lead, riding a strong stretch from Jaden Akins, a big 3 from ...

Because Jaden Akins and Tre Holloman were there to make sure this game went the right way. As were guys like Frankie Fidler ...