Tom Izzo voices growing concern for Tyson Walker’s injury

Tom Izzo spoke to the media this week about Tyson Walker’s groin and he sounded like he’s been concerned about it.

Tyson Walker has been dealing with a groin injury for quite some time now, per Tom Izzo. However, he hasn’t missed any playing time other than a couple of minutes during the road game at Minnesota.

That’s just who Tyson Walker is. I’d argue that he is the toughest player on this Michigan State team. That’s why you’ll never hear Walker complain about his injury and why he’s dodged the question every time he is asked about his health.

But Izzo shared some growing concern for Tyson’s health on Wednesday as the season comes to a close.

Tom Izzo shares concern for Walker’s health

After practice on Wednesday, Tom Izzo shared this with the media about his star guard’s groin injury.

“Every time he (Tyson) goes down, he’s grabbing his groin.” Izzo continued, “There’s nothing I can do about it, so I just listen to the trainer and listen to him — can you play or not play? It’s definitely been somewhat of an issue.”

This is not what you want to hear about Michigan State’s star player as we now head into March. This increase in Izzo’s concern for his health also comes at a time when Tyson has struggled statistically.

Walker has only scored 20 points once in his last 10 games. I know 20 points is a high standard in college basketball, but we all know Walker is more than capable of regularly hitting this mark. Walker also has only shot above 50 percent in these 10 games once as well. So his lack of scoring isn’t due to a lack of opportunity, it’s due to a lack of efficiency.

Thankfully for Walker and Michigan State, the Spartans will have a good amount of time off in the coming days. MSU just had six days between the Ohio State loss and the Purdue game this weekend, so hopefully he will get a little healthier this week.

There also is a decent amount of time off after their final regular season game and the Big Ten Tournament as well as before the NCAA Tournament begins. All this extra rest should hopefully help Walker improve his health.

The Spartans will need Walker at 100 percent because this team tends to struggle without him. So hopefully this week off helped him and we’ll see him back to his normal self against Purdue on Saturday.