Teams like Duke and Kentucky get a lot of hype by signing the nation's top recruits, but there's a reason one-and-done's often don't win championships. USA TODAY
MINNEAPOLIS — Bill Beekman looked around U.S. Bank Stadium and beamed, seeing more than 5,000 green and white-clad fans filling the seats as Michigan State’s basketball team practice.
It has been a long 14 months since the 51-year-old Okemos native became the Spartans’ interim — and then permanent — athletic director. And Beekman is mindful of the trials and tribulations of MSU sports in the past few years, from sexual assault cases involving football players in early 2017 to the Larry Nassar trial in early 2018 to allegations of other improprieties with coaches Mark Dantonio and Tom Izzo’s programs over the past decade.