Michigan State is off to a hot start. The Spartans sank a school-record 18 threes in a 106-72 rout of Northern Iowa on Friday night. Throw in a statement victory over Duke at the Champions Classic earlier this week and Tom Izzo’s team has a decent case to be ranked atop the next round of polls.
There are plenty of reasons for fans of the only colors to be excited about the potential for this team. Izzo, as one might expect, isn’t quite ready to spike the football and never has a shortage of things he’d like to see improve.
Izzo’s comments
During his postgame comments, the topic of communication came up and the Hall of Fame coached used it as a launching pad into some story time.
Tom Izzo went all the way back to his childhood to explain what he wants to see from his team and the younger generation https://t.co/Yh8yQMHIiW
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“Up in the U.P. where I lived, the basements up there are where the furnace is, and they’re always dark and they’re cold,’ Izzo said. ‘I used to go down there to get something for my mother. I was 8 years old, and you know what I did the whole way? I talked, ’cause I was scared to death… ‘How’s the weather up there, Mom?’ Anything that I could hear a voice, ’cause voices are comforting. When you don’t hear a voice, it’s not comforting.”…