If things go as coach Tom Izzo expects, Valentine will miss that game and MSU's Jan. 10 visit to Penn State, then return for a Jan. 14 home game against Iowa. Izzo's going to be cautious with his ...

Then Denzel Valentine happened. The MSU senior guard bucked early-season tradition with a performance that put him in the MSU record books and announced him as one of college basketball's players ...

Valentine scored 23 and did it all for the Spartans. And that's one thing that can be taken from the four games in Italy (MSU went 1-3, beating a club team and losing to Russia and Georgia as well ...

East Lansing — No. 4 Michigan State gets a chance to avenge its only loss when it hosts Iowa on Thursday, and it likely will have Denzel Valentine back in the starting lineup. Valentine returned ...

Denzel Valentine has made a career of knowing what his team needs and providing it. The first half of Michigan State’s 92-65 win at Penn State Sunday was perhaps his most intuitive act.

But Izzo also said Valentine is "crushed" to miss time -- including Tuesday's big game between No. 1 MSU (12-0) and Oakland at the Palace of Auburn Hills (7 p.m., ESPNU).