Spartan fans know that Tom Izzo has been dragged into the new era of college basketball, metaphorically kicking and screaming along the way, wanting to maintain some semblance of what college basketball has meant to him. Yet he had pledged at the end of last season, after a quick postseason exit, that he was going to get “back to a deeper run in (the NCAA) tournament” or he was “going to die trying.”
Source: Spartans Illustrated