{"id":16866,"date":"2024-03-24T15:20:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T19:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=16866"},"modified":"2024-03-24T15:20:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T19:20:13","slug":"tom-izzo-vows-to-make-michigan-state-basketball-elite-again-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=16866","title":{"rendered":"Tom Izzo vows to make Michigan State basketball elite again (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Following a brutal loss to North Carolina, Tom Izzo spoke to reporters and vowed to bring Michigan State basketball back to the top.<\/h2>\n<p>After yet another disappointing early exit in the NCAA Tournament on Saturday night, <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/tom-izzo-has-ncaa-tournament-record-for-wins-as-a-lower-seed\/\">Tom Izzo<\/a> was fired up.<\/p>\n<p>The Hall of Fame head coach seemed to show more fire than we&#8217;ve seen from him in years, speaking to the media about what to expect moving forward. He stated that if &#8220;someone wants him out&#8221; he would still find somewhere to coach because he hasn&#8217;t accomplished what he wants to. And he also had this quote which had to make everyone feel a lot better about the future of the program.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">One of the many fired up quotes from Izzo after the game today. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MSU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MSU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wilxTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@wilxTV<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#39;m gonna get back to a deeper run in this tournament, or I&#39;m going to die trying.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tHhqQgOyCm\">pic.twitter.com\/tHhqQgOyCm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Seth Wells (@SethWellsTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SethWellsTV\/status\/1771715942914941381?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Vowing to make Michigan State a deep NCAA Tournament team again is music to all of our ears. While the Spartans made a Sweet 16 a year ago and a Final Four back in 2019, it feels like they have fallen short of expectations for four straight seasons. Beginning this year ranked No. 4 only to lose in the second round of the NCAA Tournament as a 9-seed was more than disappointing. It was unacceptable. And Izzo admitted that after the game as well, accepting the blame for the team&#8217;s struggles this year.<\/p>\n<p>While he can&#8217;t be blamed for everything that went wrong, he knows that he is a huge part of it. He knows that he has to be better and he vowed to be just that moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m gonna get back to a deeper run in this tournament or I&#8217;m going to die trying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the type of quote we all wanted to hear after Saturday&#8217;s loss. We didn&#8217;t want to hear a &#8220;we&#8217;ll try to be better next year&#8221; or a generic coachspeak quote about how he&#8217;s proud of the way the guys battled. We wanted fire. We got it.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Izzo has always been passionate and fiery, but he has watered in down in recent years. It feels like he&#8217;s found that fire again and he&#8217;s going to run with it next year and beyond. This also sounds like he&#8217;s going to coach for quite a while still.<\/p>\n<p>Between this Izzo quote and <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-basketball-xavier-booker-coming-back-next-season\/\">Xavier Booker telling reporters that he&#8217;s &#8220;definitely&#8221; coming back<\/a> next season, the offseason has gotten off to a great start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He seems to have plenty of fire left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[59,190,189,504,211],"class_list":["post-16866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","tag-featured","tag-michigan-state-basketball","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news","tag-tom-izzo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16866","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}