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Tom Izzo anticipating Emoni Bates, Jaden Akins' debuts with Ypsi Prep, a school unlike most in Michigan

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Tom Izzo will be watching. So will the rest of the basketball world.

Emoni Bates and the newly created Ypsi Prep Academy will make their debut Thursday night on national TV. The Ball Boys, as they are nicknamed, host Team Sizzle AAU in Ann Arbor in a preseason game that will be broadcast on ESPN2 starting at 8:30 p.m.

“I am anxious to see the game,” Izzo said during his signing day news conference Wednesday. “I will get to watch it, I got nothing else to do. I'll be sitting here — not that I wouldn't have made time anyway, but it makes it more unique.