Women’s Basketball Instant Recap: Spartans push UCLA to the Brink but fall in LA

By all accounts, Robyn Fralick has Spartan Women’s Basketball on the right track. After a couple of years of MSU hovering around .500, Fralick came to East Lansing last year and led the Spartans back to the NCAA tournament. MSU finished 22-9, earned a 9-seed in the tournament and dropped a close one in the first round game against North Carolina. So far this year, MSU is 19-5 and 9-4 in the Big Ten.

Tonight, however, marked the biggest challenge of Fralick’s young MSU career and perhaps the Spartans’ biggest test since the 2019 NCAA tournament when MSU fell to #1 seed Notre Dame in the second round 91-63.