MSU’s Tom Izzo warming up to zone defense (a little)

EAST LANSING – To sum up Tom Izzo’s history with employing zone defense in two words: not much.

Izzo’s Michigan State teams used to play a 2-3 zone at times when opponents inbounded from the baseline, but he stopped doing that a few years ago. He has talked in several preseasons about working on some zone and using it as a curveball during those seasons — and that talk has induced mostly chuckles. - Read more at Freep.com