EAST LANSING — Tom Izzo walked into Michigan State basketball’s practice facility in late December to a surprise: Keon Coleman.
A month after the Spartans’ football season ended, days after Christmas, the wide receiver made a quick return from his home in Louisiana to prepare for a second winter with Izzo’s hoops squad.
It lasted a week. That’s when Coleman listened to the one person whose opinion mattered most on whether he could sustain his two-sport college career, the only one who could make the decision.
“After that week, I just had a real sit-down with myself,” Coleman recalled Tuesday.