Michigan State coach Tom ... one of Izzo's mentors during his first season as Jud Heathcote's successor in 1995. "He was good to me and he was a great coach who did many things I haven't done ...

Michigan State coach Tom Izzo matched former Indiana Hoosiers coach Bob Knight on Saturday. The Spartans beat Oregon, 86-74, which gave Izzo win No. 353 in the Big Ten Conference. Izzo is now one ...

Michigan State coach Tom ... one of Izzo's mentors during his first season as Jud Heathcote's successor in 1995. “He was good to me and he was a great coach who did many things I haven't done ...

EAST LANSING — On Jan. 4, 1996, Tom Izzo never could have imagined that 29 years and a little more than a month later he’d have as many Big Ten wins as the coach in the red sweater on the ...

“He was good to me and he was a great coach who did many things I haven’t done,” Izzo ... it was a memory-making moment,” Izzo said. “They made Tom Izzo and they did a lot to make ...

Izzo’s first Big Ten win — 65-60 over Bob Knight’s Indiana program nearly three decades ago — was both a depressing occasion and defining moment for Michigan State’s then first-year head ...

Michigan State coach Tom Izzo matched Indiana legend Bob Knight for most career Big Ten victories, finally reaching a number of 353 that proved to be somewhat elusive in a pair of road losses to ...