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You’re not gonna believe this, but MSU head coach Tom Izzo was salty in his postgame press conference after his team got annihilated by Michigan.
Though he spent most of his press conference talking about how questionable the officiating was, he did give the Wolverines at least a little credit. And the Spartans will have another chance at the maize and blue on Sunday when Michigan heads to East Lansing.
“I’m interested in getting another shot at them,” Izzo said. “They played well, beat us fair and square. I thought it was strange, it was a strange game, had a lot of weird calls, a lot of hook and holds. Until I see the film, I don’t know what’s right or wrong. There were some changing plays that we didn’t make — give them credit. They played well.”
Otherwise, Izzo didn’t have any answers.
Asked if it was the team being tired — it played 6 games in 13 days, while Michigan played 6 games in 15 days — he said it was more of an effort thing for his Spartans. Yes, he already gave Michigan credit, but the statement above is where his deference started and stopped.
“I don’t think it was any fatigue stuff, I think it was more — maybe some of the effort was caused by fatigue,” Izzo said. “But I don’t think those couple of plays are — maybe Michigan State lore. When those didn’t happen — we got in foul trouble, we got Aaron (Henry) frustrated — he’s been playing so good. We’ll bounce back, we’ve been here before a lot this year.”
So, if it wasn’t Michigan, why does he feel like MSU couldn’t pull of a win in Ann Arbor?
“I thought we were really prepared, I liked it,” Izzo said. “We didn’t do what we said were gonna do on some ball screens and that. That was individual players maybe not getting enough reps at it. So we’ll try to do those things and do a better job. I think we felt good enough that we played good enough in stretches and we think we know why things went awry — we’ll keep that between me and my team and we’ll go from there.”
Michigan already has the Big Ten championship after the win, now it’ll go for the rival sweep on Sunday.
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