Tom Izzo is the Michigan State Spartans, but did he almost leave East Lansing for the NBA last year? “I’ve had more than a couple job offers in the NBA, and I looked at one last year with [the] Phoenix [Suns],” Izzo revealed in a Wednesday appearance on “The Dan Patrick Show.” “My former player, … Read more
The Sweet 16 was the end of the line for the Michigan State Spartans, but it won’t be the end for head coach Tom Izzo. “Trying to win a National Championship: plain and simple,” Izzo said in his postgame press conference when asked where he sees himself in five years after No. 3-seeded Michigan State’s … Read more
The opening weekend of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament started and ended with a thud for the Big Ten. In an instant, No. 8 Ohio State lost to No. 9 TCU in the very first game that tipped on Thursday afternoon. It wasn’t much later when No. 5 Wisconsin got upended by No. 12 High … Read more
Are college sports in a better or worse place than before the NIL boom? That question has hovered over this year’s NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, a postseason spectacle that hasn’t settled the debate, but rather intensified it. “College sports, it’s different now,” FOX Sports’ Colin Cowherd said on Monday’s episode of “The Herd.” “I think … Read more
The first No. 1 seed succumbed around 9:35 p.m. ET on Sunday, by which time a last-ditch possession from Florida ended in a turnover by point guard Xaivian Lee as the final horn sounded, his wrap-around pass sailing fatefully awry. Moments earlier — before back-to-back timeouts that only amplified the searing tension at Benchmark International … Read more
Yaxel Lendeborg punctuated his 25-point outing with a massive dunk in transition, and the Midwest Region’s top-seeded Michigan advanced to the Sweet 16 with a 95-72 victory over Saint Louis in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday. Morez Johnson Jr. had 15 and eight rebounds for Michigan (33-3), which matched a program … Read more
UCLA coach Mick Cronin didn’t mince words when asked about those being critical of his recent controversial in-game behavior. “It’s ridiculous,” he said bluntly. “Everybody needs to get a life. … C’mon, man. … We’re not coaching little league, buddy. Everybody doesn’t get an at-bat.” Recently, both Cronin and UConn head coach Dan Hurley have … Read more
Duke is the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament and No. 1 in the final AP Top 25 of the regular season. The Blue Devils received 50 first-place votes from a 57-person media panel in The Associated Press men’s basketball poll released Monday, a day after they were named the top overall seed in … Read more
Oscar Cluff scored 21 points, Trey Kaufman-Renn had 20 and No. 7 seed Purdue topped top-seeded Michigan on Sunday for the Big Ten Tournament championship, 80-72. Braden Smith had 14 points, 11 assists and three steals as Purdue (27-8) added to an impressive turnaround after closing the regular season with four losses in six games. … Read more
No. 8 Michigan State had its way with UCLA in East Lansing last month, but that wasn’t the case on Friday night, as the Bruins got the better of the Spartans in the quarterfinal round of the Big Ten Tournament. What happened to Tom Izzo’s squad? “I was really disappointed in how we played,” Izzo … Read more