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Michigan State's Tom Izzo finished second in voting for the AP coach of the year, and senior forward Draymond Green was third in the player-of-the-year balloting.
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Michigan State forward Draymond Green received two of the 65 votes from a national media panel for The Associated Press' college basketball Player of the Year, as it was Kentucky freshman Anthony Davis who won the award.
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With a terrific season just concluded, Tom Izzo has to look back. He didn’t get to be successful spending much time with a rearview mirror. That is why even with looking back it is hard for him to not keep glancing ahead to next year.
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Ten names hang from the rafters at Breslin Center, each of them steeped in Michigan State basketball lore. Legends such as Skiles, Magic, Vincent, Kelser, Cleaves, Peterson, Respert, Heathcote, Smith and "Jumpin" Johnny — their full names unnecessary. Coach Tom Izzo believes another should be raised sometime soon: Draymond.
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While facing some of the top high school basketball players in the nation Wednesday, Harris had two points, five rebounds and three assists. He played point guard in the first half, focusing on distributing the ball to his teammates on the East Team and playing defense in a 106-102 loss to the West Team.
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Michigan State coach Tom Izzo has arrived in New Orleans for the Final Four. He'll serve as an analyst for CBS Sports' coverage Saturday, and USA Today caught up with Izzo to break down the four teams.
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Following an over-achieving year, the MSU men’s basketball will return eight of 12 scholarship players and welcome a recruiting class of four top-100 high school players.
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Tom Izzo is one of three coaches who will be on CBS' set this weekend to provide analysis at the Final Four in New Orleans. Butler's Brad Stevens and Marquette's Buzz Williams also will be working with the CBS Sports broadcast team of Greg Gumbel, Greg Anthony, Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Seth Davis.
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Somewhere wrapped inside Tom Izzo's monologue this week about incoming recruit Denzel Valentine, Michigan State's basketball coach dropped the line, "I don't want to put a lot of pressure on him, because you never know what's going to happen."
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Gary Harris played in the prestigious McDonald’s All-American Game through two nagging groin injuries and didn’t make a field goal. The future Michigan State guard still managed to quietly impress on a grand stage.
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At his season wrap-up press conference Tuesday, head coach Tom Izzo said the not-so-big-of-a-secret to his team’s success this season was its chemistry and leadership. Everyone knows senior forward Draymond Green became one of the great leaders in school history this year, but what he did to help a bunch of pieces become a team played a major factor in MSU’s run to a share of the Big Ten regular season championship, conference tournament title and No. 1 seed. All of that — or at least the majority of the chemistry part — happened this summer.
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freep.com —
Izzo was impressed by Sexton's unselfish play. "And it was led by their star, who I think will be coming here to be a very, very good player, even as a freshman," Izzo said. "I've never seen a player that passed the ball and was as unselfish. So hopefully, he'll bring some of that to us."
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The Charge picked up Travis Walton today as a back-up point guard. The 6-foot-2 Walton is a perfect guy for the role. A tough, defensive-minded player, Walton provides some depth behind starting point guard T.J. Campbell and allows Kyle Gibson to focus on his natural position on the wing. Walton won’t fill up the stat sheet, but he’ll make solid basketball plays and provide leadership while he’s on the floor.
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When Michigan State received the information that Gary Harris was committing to Tom Izzo, it sent a shockwave of excitement through Spartans fans everywhere — and the coaches. As Harris prepared for tonight’s McDonald’s All-American Game (9:30 p.m. on ESPN), his fellow All-Americans have seen way.
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