EAST LANSING – It started as a question about the left shoulder of sophomore center Gavin Schilling — a minor sprain that is not serious — and turned into an impassioned Tom Izzo taking on the season-ending foot injury of Michigan guard Caris LeVert, injuries the Spartans have had, and his belief that over-use is contributing to them.

“When you see a thing like LeVert — and here’s where I have changed, too, over the last three or four years — in my basement, when the best player on somebody else’s team went down, I’m not different than a fan. Hell, I’m happy as hell because I’ve got to win games,” Izzo said Monday at his news conference. “When you go through a bunch of injuries yourself, I wouldn’t have wished this (on them), I am not happy. What makes me sad — and this is what I think we really have to look at — (is) that is an over-use injury. That was not an injury because something happened. That was an over-used, over-worked injury, and you’re seeing more of those stress fracture breaks. If you read anything about that kid with (Nik) Stauskas that summer, it was morning, noon and night working on his game. God love him.” - Read more at Freep.com