The Spartans forced Memphis into a half-court game, and it struggled against their in-your-face defense.
Memphis responded with a 12-2 run to pull within three, and the Spartans led 32-29 at halftime.
The senior team finished fourth, one place behind Spartans, in this season's East of Scotland League's Premier Division.
Kiana Johnson scored 16 points, and Jasmine Thomas had 10 for the Spartans.
Spartans might conjure up images of Greek soldiers, but women represented 40% of participants last year up from 10% in 2010.
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So it shouldn't be overlooked that the Spartans scored one for the conference against the vaunted SEC's East Division champion.
Last season's beaten play-off finalists AFC Telford will host Blyth Spartans while Southport start the league at home to Gloucester City.
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The Spartans in Halo are superhuman, their weapons absurd, their enemies ridiculous.
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Pickrel finished with 14 points Saturday, making up for off-days from starters Becca Mills and Klarissa Bell, as the Spartans beat 12th-seeded Marist 55-47.
The Spartans (27-8) will play the winner of Sunday's Duke-Creighton game on Friday in the Midwest Regional semifinals at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
But as Brin points out, real Spartans were slavemongers of the worst sort, living in one of the most stratified societies in human history.
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His career developed as he went on to manage Blyth Spartans and then acted as agent for the likes of Andy Carroll.
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The Buckeyes, on a roll after winning the conference tournament Sunday, are seeded second in the West, while Tom Izzo's Spartans are third in the Midwest.
The contempt that Frank Miller spits out against Occupy Wall Street is very much in the vein of the contempt his Spartans shower at the Athenians.
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Saturday's Blue Square North meeting with Blyth Spartans is the first game at Valley Stadium this month and Whild knows his side have to make it count.
We then roll into March and the Final Four where my Michigan Wolverines are going to stomp all over Todd W. Carters Michigan States Spartans.
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The Spartans' student section responded by calling him Whoopi Goldberg.
The Spartans turned 14 offensive rebounds into 22 second-chance points.
Eleven points in a 13-0 run for fifth-seeded Michigan State, providing a cushion the Spartans would need in the second half against a mid-major known for its first-round upsets.
The Spartans and rival Michigan, which routed VCU earlier in the day in the same sold-out arena near their campuses, are in the same round of 16 for the first time.
Next Saturday the flame visits the Suffolk Spartans Powerlifting Club at East Bergholt Sports Centre, the East Anglian Sailing Trust at Levington Marina and the Water Lane Sports Centre in Lowestoft.
Date it back a little more, and the Spartans and Blue Devils are the only teams to make it to the regional semifinals in at least 10 of the last 15 seasons.
After Pickrel's surge gave Michigan State a 25-16 halftime lead, the Spartans allowed the Red Foxes to get back in front with a flurry of 3-pointers, prompting coach Suzy Merchant to call timeout and deliver a very simple message.
The Spartans (25-8) gradually pulled away after that and advanced to the second round for the eighth time in nine NCAA appearances, a streak interrupted by a loss to Louisville on the same College Park court a year ago.
The Fighting Irish stayed atop the rankings ahead of both the mighty Spartans (who had four of the top eight picks in the next NFL draft) and a Tide team that posted a perfect record in the quest for an unprecedented third straight championship (to this day, no team has finished No. 1 in The Associated Press rankings three years in a row).
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