The last several weeks have been hard to swallow for Michigan State Basketball – suffering a first-round tournament loss, watching players leave and coming just short of landing a top recruit.
But, ironically, the most momentous event for the program this spring was positive. The April 4th announcement of Tom Izzo’s induction into the Naismith Hall of Fame symbolizes the level of the program’s enduring success.
Under Izzo’s 22-year tenure as head coach, Michigan State has become a college basketball powerhouse and a perennial Big Ten frontrunner.
Many disappointments have come along the way. Since the program’s last championship 16 years ago, Michigan State is the winningest, most successful major-conference team to have not yet won another.