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03/28/11 Winning: Suzy Merchant has compiled a 95-41 record at MSU while mainly utilizing players recruited by former coach Joanne P. McCallie. / ORLIN WAGNER/Associated Press
03/27/11 Suzy Merchant sat on the locker room floor, her back supported by a concrete wall, wearing a blank-faced stare that gazed off into the distance as if she was searching for what should have been.
03/21/11 In Monday's "Daily Edition", hear from Suzy Merchant and the Spartans as the Michigan State women's basketball team defeated Northern Iowa, 69-66, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament Sunday night in Wichita, Kan.
02/28/11 EAST LANSING - Michigan State coach Suzy Merchant preached to her team to travel to Minnesota and play championship-caliber basketball even though the Big Ten regular season title had been clinched before Sunday's game against the Golden Gophers.
02/04/11 At Madison, Kalisha Keane scored 28 points to lead Michigan State to an overtime win over Wisconsin. Keane hit four three-pointers to help give Spartans coach Suzy Merchant her first road victory over the Badgers in four trips to the Kohl Center.
12/06/10 Heading into the Michigan State women's basketball team's biggest week of the season, Suzy Merchant sat down with one of her most important players and urged her to be more aggressive.
12/02/10 Michigan State coach Suzy Merchant loves scrappy play. She really loved it Wednesday night. Kalisha Keane scored 20 of her 22 points in the second half to lead a ferocious comeback that carried the 25th-ranked Spartans to a 72-64 victory over No. 15 Florida State in an ACC/Big Ten Challenge game.
12/02/10 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Michigan State coach Suzy Merchant loves scrappy play. She really loved it Wednesday night.
11/15/10 Michigan State women's basketball head coach Suzy Merchant announced the signing of the fourth National Letter of Intent - Kiana Johnson (Chicago, Ill./ Whitney Young) - as part of the Class of 2010. Johnson joins Jasmine Hines (Central Lake, Mich./Central Lake), Becca Mills (Midland, Mich./Midland Dow) and Akyah Taylor (Elkhart, Ind./Elkhart Memorial), who signed with the Spartans on Wednesday.
11/10/10 Despite the Spartans losing talented freshman Madison Williams to injury, coach Suzy Merchant is pushing for another 20-win season in East Lansing.
10/29/10 ROSEMONT, Ill. -- Michigan State women's basketball coach Suzy Merchant said it isn't always about 20 wins. The Spartans have done at least that for seven consecutive seasons, including a combined record of 68-35 with Merchant leading the program the past three seasons.
10/28/10 The Spartans are a combined 68-35 in Suzy Merchant's three years as coach and finished second to Ohio State in the conference two years in a row.
07/06/10 As a sophomore, Michigan State basketball coach Suzy Merchant offered Central Lake's Jasmine Hines a basketball scholarship. Almost two years later, Hines accepted.
05/09/10 The problem: New mom Suzy Merchant gets new job as MSU's hoops coach. The solution: Mom and dad move in to help out.
04/15/10 Michigan State women's basketball head coach Suzy Merchant announced today the signing of Bryonna Davis (Merrillville, Ind./ Merrillville) to a National Letter of Intent. As a senior, Davis led Merrillville with 20.7 points per game, while also averaging 3.1 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 3.6 steals. Her senior season success earned her Indiana Basketball Coaches Association (IBCA) First Team All ...
03/20/10 As the pre-tournament coaches meeting broke up Friday morning, Bowling Green coach Curt Miller was making small talk with Michigan State coach Suzy Merchant.
01/19/10 AP File Photo Michigan State's women's basketball team is off to a 2-5 start in the Big Ten under Suzy Merchant after climbing as high as 16th in the polls.
01/15/10 EAST LANSING -- Wisconsin coach Lisa Stone saw a different game than Michigan State counterpart Suzy Merchant. Stone could barely contain her excitement after the Badgers turned up the defense to rally from a 14-point deficit in the second half for a 48-45 win over the 20th-ranked Spartans on Thursday night.
01/08/10 Michigan State women's basketball coach Suzy Merchant had a healthy appreciation for the talents of Ohio State junior center Jantel Lavender before she coached her as an assistant on the U.S. gold medal team in the World University Games last summer.
12/22/09 EAST LANSING - Suzy Merchant came to Michigan State with a defense-first coaching mentality.
12/06/09 Head Coach Suzy Merchant On the difficulty of coming off the North Carolina game... It's certainly disappointing to start your Big Ten season 0-1, especially at home. We talked a lot about the North Carolina victory and how you have to get rid of it because the most important game we were going to play to this point in the season is our Big Ten opener. Quite honestly, being in the locker room ... | 
