What Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said about Ohio State postgame

The Ohio State basketball team had a very big road win against Michigan State, but couldn’t compete in the games to finish and impress the NCAA tournament committee. It’s a repetitive pattern, but at least this time the Buckeyes showed great effort and fought on the road while missing two of their best players.

In the end, it was still a loss, but you wouldn’t know that by listening to Spartans head coach Tom Izzo. He met with his reporters after the game and lamented his team’s play, from the effort and execution to the ability to defend and make shots.

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Izzo credited Ohio State, particularly guard Bruce Thornton, but he had more to say about his team’s poor performance than what the Buckeyes did on the field in front of the Michigan State crowd. Still, we like to keep tabs on what opposing coaches have to say after playing Ohio State, so we have his full press conference here, courtesy of the WILX YouTube channel.

Ohio State will now prepare to hit the road again to face the Iowa Hawkeyes on Wednesday, and it will be next in the line of must-wins as the regular season nears its end, and with the Buckeyes still on the NCAA Tournament bubble.

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