EAST LANSING – It’s Year 20 for Tom Izzo as Michigan State’s head coach, which is meaningful beyond the fact that it’s a nice, round number.

It means Izzo is the second-longest-tenured coach in school history, behind Benjamin VanAlstyne (1926-49) and ahead of Izzo’s mentor.

“I don’t want to talk about it; it means he outlasted me,” cracked 87-year-old Jud Heathcote, who led the Spartans in 1976-95, bringing Izzo on as a grad assistant in 1983 and making sure he got the job 12 years later. - Read more at Freep.com