Tom Izzo to present former Purdue head coach Gene Keady in Naismith Hall of Fame

Tom Izzo to present former Purdue head coach Gene Keady in Naismith Hall of Fame

Michigan State basketball head coach Tom Izzo is set to present an old friend and one of the great legends of college basketball into the Naismith Hall of Fame this weekend.

Izzo will be presenting former Purdue head coach Gene Keady into the Hall of Fame, after Izzo also wrote an endorsement for Keady’s induction.

Keady was the coach at Purdue from 1980 until 2005, where he won six regular season Big Ten championships and was named the Big Ten Coach of the Year seven times, and the National Coach of the Year five times.

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