Not a great
weekend for Spartans. MSU lost in both the NCAA basketball and hockey
tournament. Although it is truly a great achievement to reach the hockey
tournament for first year head coach Tom Anastos, its hard to remember that
being in the Sweet 16 is also a great achievement for Izzo and the basketball
team. This is a team that started out unranked, and climbed to the top four at
the end of the year. This a team that truly earned a number one seed despite
not having number one seed talent.
Draymond
Green, through hard work and dedication, overcame his lack of raw talent to be in consideration for Player of the
Year, and actually captured the Big Ten Player of the Year. MSU lost four key
players from past final four runs (Chris Allen, Korie Lucious, Durrell Summers,
and Delvon Roe) and a former Big Ten Player of the Year (Kalin Lucas). Moreover
the recruiting class featured only one five star recruit. Despite all this Izzo
took his young team of role-players into some of the toughest places to play
and battled like old school MSU basketball teams do: winning with tough D and
relentless rebounding.
And so the season
ended on a disappointing loss, but I'm not going to let that sour my memory of this
season. The season MSU returned to top of the Big Ten. Draymond Green soared as
a leader and finished his tremendous career with 2 final fours, a sweet sixteen,
and Big Ten player of the year. We found promising freshman that will get better
and be joined by an incredible recruiting class. We are back at the top, and that's
where we are going to be for a long time. Great season boys.
Go State!
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