The Big Ten will announce the real men’s basketball awards on Tuesday, but here are my choices in the first year the Big Ten ...

This is not the first time Izzo has publicly backed an embattled Iowa coach. Izzo offered a defense of Todd Lickliter in 2010, noting “the respect people have for him” and saying “this system is going ...

Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo was named Big Ten coach of the year for the fourth time in his career. At 70 years old, Izzo is the oldest recipient of the award since it began in 1977.

Iowa City — Tom Izzo slouched back in his chair in the Carver-Hawkeye Arena media room. His Michigan State team had just claimed the Big Ten title outright with a 91-84 win over Iowa.

EAST LANSING, Mich. -- While it didn't seem to be in question, Michigan State coach Tom Izzo received the Big Ten Coach of the Year Award on Tuesday. In a year when the conference was the largest ...

"Me and Jim Todd, one of my consultants ... Woodson’s decision on Tuesday night to rely on zone defense prevented Izzo from breaking Bob Knight’s all-time Big Ten wins record. Knight, who was ...

Michigan State coach Tom Izzo broke former Indiana Hoosiers head coach Bob Knight's record for career Big Ten conference wins, earning win No. 354 over Illinois on Saturday. Many were unsure if ...

Dusty May, meanwhile, is Michigan's sixth in the past three decades. As Tom Izzo continues to thrive in the winter of his Hall of Fame career, his younger counterpart in Ann Arbor is at the ...

Champaign, Ill. — It was Terrance Shannon Jr.’s night, until it was Tom Izzo’s. As Izzo led No. 11 Michigan State to State Farm Center, fans lined up in the cold and rain Saturday evening to ...

IOWA CITY — Tom Izzo slouched back in his chair in the Carver-Hawkeye Arena media room. His Michigan State team had just claimed the Big Ten title outright with a 91-84 win over Iowa.