The Michigan State women's basketball team is the fifth seed in the NCAA tournament and will face Bowling Green on Saturday, MLive.com reports.

Michigan State coach Suzy Merchant is 6-6 in her career against Bowling Green, most of those games coming while she was coach at Eastern Michigan, the Detroit Free Press reports.

• NCAA women's basketball bracket • AnnArbor.com: Michigan and Eastern Michigan women qualify for WNIT

MORE COLLEGE BASKETBALL • AnnArbor.com: Michigan women's basketball team has reasons to be optimistic, Michael Rothstein says • MLive.com: Video of Michigan State coach Tom Izzo on New Mexico State

Aggies' guards could pose problem for Spartans
• Detroit Free Press: Michigan coach John Beilein says last-shot strategy "backfired" against Ohio State • Detroit Free Press: Columnist Drew Sharp says Beilein could be on the hot seat soon • Detroit Free Press: Spartans can do what 2006 team couldn't accomplish • NJ.com: Can anyone stop the UConn women's team? • New York Daily News: Talk of expanding tournament to 96 teams is madness

COLLEGE FOOTBALL • AnnArbor.com: Five stories to watch as Michigan opens spring practice • Detroit Free Press: QB at foremost of questions for Michigan

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