Michigan State males’s basketball coach Tom Izzo broke Bob Knight’s Massive Ten document for wins, main the 11th-ranked Spartans to a 79-65 victory over the Illinois Fighting Illini on Saturday evening.
Tom Izzo on changing into the winningest BIG 10 coach “I might flip it in for a banner”:
Maybe fittingly, Izzo’s first Massive Ten win got here again in January 1996 in opposition to Knight’s Indiana Hoosiers.
The three-time Massive Ten Coach of the 12 months is now the lively chief in Massive Ten Convention wins (354) and ranks eighth amongst lively coaches in profession victories (727).
[Related: FOX Sports’ Bill Raftery pens congratulatory letter to Tom Izzo]
Izzo, who’s in his thirtieth 12 months as the top coach at Michigan State, has received 10 Massive Ten regular-season titles, six Massive Ten Event titles, has made eight Ultimate Fours, and received one NCAA championship. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Corridor of Fame in 2016.
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