Tom Izzo
Tom Izzo
Thomas Michael Izzois an American college basketball coach. Since 1995, he has been the head coach for the Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, presiding over a prolonged period of success. On April 4, 2016, Izzo was elected to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth30 January 1955
CityIron Mountain, MI
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I'm sitting here crying about the officiating, that's not what totally cost us the game.
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I don't feel great about it because destiny's not in our total hands. But I feel good that we're going to be difference-makers.
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I always think it hurts it some, and I don't think it's fair. If your top two or three teams don't carry that flag, I think the conference is looked down upon. I think the image of the conference is based more on the marquee teams; the strength of the conference is based more on the total teams. You would think they should go together, but I don't think they do.
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Those two statistics are ridiculous. But as down as I am and as our fans are, this season wasn't a total disaster. We won 22 games and had some good wins playing maybe the toughest schedule in the country.
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Don't read into it that I'm sitting here crying about the officiating. I didn't like the way it was called. But I'm allowed to dispute that without getting personal. It's not what totally cost us the game, but we were very much out of sync.
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We have not had three guys as prolific as those three. They've been pretty special, and they're good guys that are going to graduate, making them the total package.
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I'm not a big believer that the NCAA goes totally on strength of schedule and things like that, so I think you still have to have wins.
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It was a total mistake on both parties. Our student wasn't in the right position, and he wasn't under the right mentality. And Amadou, who's a good kid, probably made a mistake pushing him. You want your fans to be crazy, but I really think this was a mistake.
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I thought we did a decent job on them. We just didn't score. It wasn't the offense, it was the missing some shots.
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I thought we had it won a couple of times and let it slip away.
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I thought they were physical. I thought they checked us. I thought they got to loose balls.
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I think we were too aggressive. Every time we touched a guy, there was a foul.
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I think a lot of people like the Chicago thing because it's maybe more of a destination. But Indianapolis did an incredible job of making us feel like we were the main attraction in town.
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I think it was the biggest disappointment of all the NCAA games we played in. We didn't have the season we wanted to have. We didn't perform to what I think our capabilities were. I think this is one of the few times in my career here as a head coach that we didn't get done what I think we were capable of getting done, culminating with the lack of a very good performance on that last night.