{"id":17477,"date":"2024-04-18T15:10:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T19:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=17477"},"modified":"2024-04-18T15:10:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T19:10:38","slug":"tom-izzo-confirms-aj-hoggard-will-not-return-michigan-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=17477","title":{"rendered":"Tom Izzo confirms AJ Hoggard will not return to Michigan State"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tom Izzo confirmed on Wednesday that senior point guard AJ Hoggard would not be returning to Michigan State next year.<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s been an eventful offseason so far for Michigan State basketball as news keeps breaking left and right.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of all the transfer talk, the Spartans had two seniors on the roster who had the option to return for a fifth year, but it&#8217;s looking like both are officially heading elsewhere in 2024-25.<\/p>\n<p>The first is Mady Sissoko who entered the transfer portal recently and <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/tom-izzo-hints-at-jaden-akins-return-next-season\/\">Tom Izzo<\/a> spoke about him on the Tim Staudt radio show, stating that there are some programs reaching out. Izzo will likely help him land wherever he feels most comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>The other is AJ Hoggard who recently declared for the NBA draft while maintaining his college eligibility. This raised question marks.<\/p>\n<p>Would Hoggard return to MSU after going through the draft process again?<\/p>\n<p>Izzo answered that question on the Tim Staudt radio show on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/knDhBvygWz\">pic.twitter.com\/knDhBvygWz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michigan State Content (@msucontent) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/msucontent\/status\/1780963476170584271?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Izzo said that Hoggard could opt to return to college but &#8220;it wouldn&#8217;t be here&#8221; &#8212; he did say this in a respectful manner.<\/p>\n<p>This likely confirms that the Spartans have two open spots on the roster that Tom Izzo could use to add portal players. He&#8217;s already heavily involved with Frankie Fidler from Omaha who will be announcing his decision soon. There&#8217;s also chatter that he could be in on Oakland&#8217;s Trey Townsend. Getting both of those guys would make for an interesting lineup with Xavier Booker at the five.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the news coming out of East Lansing this offseason has been positive. Izzo&#8217;s vow to make Michigan State elite again &#8220;or die trying&#8221; seems to be coming to fruition. He&#8217;s making all the right moves &#8212; outside of targeting a portal center.<\/p>\n<p>We could see Izzo target portal bigs after May 1 which is the undergraduate deadline to enter. That will help him solidify the roster and maybe chase guys like Cliff Omoruyi, Brandon Garrison, or Great Osobor.<\/p>\n<p>For now, though, we know the status of the two seniors with eligibility remaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Izzo confirms what we all assumed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[217,190,189,504],"class_list":["post-17477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","tag-aj-hoggard","tag-michigan-state-basketball","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17477","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=17477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}