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From Jud to Magic to Izzo, Lori Soderberg has been MSU basketball's unsung hero

SportsPulse: Move over Zion, Virginia's title run was the story of March Madness and will go down as one of the greatest redemption stories in sports history. USA TODAY

EAST LANSING — The one person at Michigan State who owns two national championship rings quietly retired Friday.

You likely do not know who she is, which is how Lori Soderberg prefers things. But she has been the nerve center for Spartan basketball for 43 years.

How important do those inside the Berkowitz Center feel the executive secretary has been for more than four decades? Enough for assistant coach Dane Fife to place her on MSU basketball’s Mount Rushmore, next to her two bosses — Jud Heathcote and Tom Izzo — and her Lansing Everett High classmate Magic Johnson.