14 seasons as head coach
14 .500-or-better Big Ten regular season finishes
12 NCAA Tournament appearances
12 first-team all-Big Ten player selections
10 20-win seasons
8 Sweet Sixteens
6 Elite Eights
5 Final Fours
5 Big Ten regular season championships
5 former assistants currently coaching Division 1 teams
4 Big Ten player-of-the-year selections
3 30-win seasons
2 Big Ten Tournament championships
2 national championship game appearances
1 national championship
.738 NCAA Tournament winning percentage (31-11)
.711 all-time winning percentage (336-137)
.690 Big Ten regular season winning percentage (160-72)
Zero 4-year players without a Final Four appearance
Nothing but class
Izzo could go 0-25 next year and I would still beg for him to be the coach the following year.
They were polite to a hotel staff! That’s ELITE.
His record really does speak for itself. I occasionally have nits to pick with some of this decisions (no one is infallible) and would love it if he could find a way to eliminate our propensity to turn the ball over, but when you take a big picture view it is glaringly obvious that he’s one of the best. We are very lucky to have him at MSU and I hope he realizes how appreciative we all are. He does it well and he does it the way it should be done – with class.