This was the other Ben Johnson, the coach of the Minnesota Golden Gophers ... and now he was marveling at Tom Izzo’s team, and its unselfishness, and its togetherness, and how apparent it ...

This was the other Ben Johnson, the coach of the Minnesota Golden Gophers ... Johnson had just lost to the Spartans at the Breslin Center, 73-51, and now he was marveling at Tom Izzo’s team, and its ...

Just after Spartans coach Tom Izzo celebrated his 70th birthday on Thursday, his program has a chance to do something very special over the next couple of games. Izzo is two conference wins away ...

And Izzo’s players have been buzzing about it. “These last two or three games, we were aware of the record for coach and making an emphasis on these games, specifically, for coach,” junior ...

And within the next week Izzo has the chance to become the winningest Big Ten basketball coach in history. Oh, and today is Izzo's 70th birthday. It's shaping up to be quite a birthday week for ...

We always were in the tournament. And then once coach Izzo took over, we won in 2000, but we've been to the Final Four many times. He has done an amazing job.” “I just talked to Greg Kelser ...