Former Spartan Brandon Wood Arrested, Allegedly Assaulted Woman

DETROIT (97.1 The Ticket) Former Michigan State University basketball player Brandon Wood reportedly faces charges of assault and battery and criminal tresspass.

It stems from a 3:30 a.m. Sunday incident in a suburb outside of Chicago, Ill., where Wood  allegedly got into a physical fight with a woman at a party -- and refused to leave.

Wood, a guard, is the second person associated with Spartans basketball to be arrested in recent weeks. Derrick Nix, who was expected to become a team leader, was suspended from the team after he was arrested on a drug possession charge in East Lansing.

Wood played for four schools in five years and was recruited to the Spartans as a senior in 2011. He was the Spartans' third leading scorer last season, averaging 8.8 points a game.

Notably, he played for Coach Homer Drew at Valparaiso before coming to State.  He played at Valparaiso for two seasons, scoring 1,117 points and earning distinction as  a two-time All-Horizon League winner.

For a profile on the Spartans basketball website, he described himself this way: "I'm the type of person that doesn't regret a decision I make. "I just try to take the positives and go with them. And the negatives, I just try to learn from them and turn them into positives. I use the negatives to try to better me as a person."