Michigan State men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo said it was clear his team wanted to «get back on the floor» this week in the wake of a fatal campus shooting.
— Michigan State men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo said Thursday it was clear that his team wanted to «get back on the floor» this week in the wake of a fatal campus shooting that claimed three lives and shut down all campus activities at the school for several days.
Izzo said he and his team have spent the past several days attempting to find a balance between processing the trauma of Monday night’s shooting with a desire to return to some form of normalcy. The Spartans met at Izzo’s home Tuesday morning to let players know how to access mental health resources if needed and to discuss a path forward. He said the team did not consider canceling Saturday night’s upcoming road game against Michigan.
«You have to figure out a way to honor the people who were senselessly killed, and our way of being able to do that is to play the game,» Izzo said during a news conference Thursday night.
