Michigan State coach Tom Izzo’s heated discussion with a player during the defeat in Thursday night’s extension to UCLA at the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament started a debate on social media.
At halftime, Izzo was seen shouting at Spartan striker Gabe Brown. Izzo briefly grabbed Brown’s arm as they returned to the locker room and then grabbed his shirt to try to stop him from running into the tunnel. When Brown ran away, Izzo chased him.
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The debate raised questions for some on social media, but for Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green – who is also a Michigan state alumnus – it was no big deal.
Izzo was asked about the moment after the team’s defeat by 86-80.
“He missed a move and I told him. He left and I told him to come back,” he said, via the Detroit Free Press. “We went through this a few years ago. A game like that, is that the question you are going to ask me? I think I will answer it because the media has the right to ask any question.
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“But we are going to bring him here and you can ask him. It was nothing normal. It is that nowadays everything is something. It was because of a lost change that we talked about.”
Brown was not made available to reporters after the game.
Izzo was attacked during the 2019 men’s tournament also for a heated moment with Aaron Henry.
The video of the game shows Izzo entering the court during a time limit and shouting at Henry. Other coaches and guard Cassius Winston quickly stepped in to separate the two before the chewing continued in the team’s huddle.
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Henry didn’t seem bothered by that at the time.