{"id":15452,"date":"2024-03-04T15:06:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T20:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=15452"},"modified":"2024-03-05T16:03:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T21:03:12","slug":"tom-izzo-comments-speaks-on-aj-hoggard-mady-sissoko-using-covid-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=15452","title":{"rendered":"Tom Izzo speaks on AJ Hoggard, Mady Sissoko using COVID years"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tom Izzo spoke to the media Monday and was asked about Mady Sissoko and AJ Hoggard using their COVID-19 years.<\/h2>\n<p>A lot of questions have circulated this year regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/the-2023-final-four-teams-prove-tom-izzo-needs-to-use-transfer-portal\/\">Tom Izzo<\/a> and his future retirement plans. This also will be the last year the extra COVID-19 year can be used by seniors to stay in college for one more season. That means both AJ Hoggard and Mady Sissoko could return to Michigan State next season.<\/p>\n<p>With MSU\u2019s final home game on Wednesday, Izzo commented on both of these topics during his Monday press conference on if this will be the last home game for either of these three.<\/p>\n<h3>Will this be Tom Izzo\u2019s last home game?<\/h3>\n<p>This question has been asked a lot this season and Izzo has given the same answer every time. He wasn\u2019t even asked this question on Monday, but he felt the need to say it just to be clear.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Izzo on senior night and final game at Breslin: &quot;There&#39;s something about your last game that you those memories usually last a little longer. So I don&#39;t know how they&#39;ll take it.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>He also slips in this: &quot;It&#39;s not my last game.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Solari (@chrissolari) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrissolari\/status\/1764700669087564240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This coincides perfectly with what he said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrissolari\/status\/1764700669087564240?s=46&amp;t=HzWIFqTQRS5Hzrpk6cFU3A\">CBS Sports interview<\/a> earlier this season, so there is no fear of this being Izzo\u2019s last home game.<\/p>\n<p>But what about Hoggard or Sissoko? They&#8217;re both seniors but could come back for one more season if they\u2019d like.<\/p>\n<h3>Izzo isn\u2019t giving anything away for their future plans<\/h3>\n<p>This likely won\u2019t surprise you at all, but Izzo is not giving away AJ or Mady\u2019s future plans.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Izzo on whether fourth-year guys (Hoggard\/Sissoko) might return for extra COVID eligiblity. &quot;The way I look at it is my seniors are seniors this year.&quot; Won&#39;t address it until after the season.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Solari (@chrissolari) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrissolari\/status\/1764703543888667087?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It appears that Izzo is planning on this being both AJ and Madys final games at the Breslin Center. I\u2019m guessing Izzo has also thought this way as well when recruiting for the future. Maybe Izzo knows what their decision will be or maybe he doesn\u2019t, but he is not confirming anything. Not publicly sharing there decision is probably the right choice as well. The time for those announcements will come when the season ends. Hoggard and Sissoko both also deserve to share those announcements however they like as well. So we\u2019re still gonna have to wait a while until we find out if either player will be returning next year.<\/p>\n<p>The best news out of all of this, however, is that Izzo isn\u2019t going anywhere. In fact, it seems like he might be around for a lot longer still. Even if he hasn\u2019t been at his best in recent years, I still never want to see him leave. He makes this team and program far better than any other coach could, so we just need to sit back and enjoy having him on the sidelines while he\u2019s still here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could the two seniors return?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":15462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[217,59,228,190,189,504],"class_list":["post-15452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","tag-aj-hoggard","tag-featured","tag-mady-sissoko","tag-michigan-state-basketball","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}