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Big Ten record 'sitting right there' for Tom Izzo as Michigan State basketball heads west
https://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/michigan-state/spartans/2025/01/30/tom-izzo-michigan-state-basketball-big-ten-record-bob-knight-magic-johnson-usc-trojans-ucla-bruins/78034770007/
If No. 7 Michigan State basketball beats USC on Saturday, the Hall of Fame coach who turns 70 on Thursday will tie the Big Ten mark for the most conference victories by a coach. And if the Spartans can pull off a pair of wins, facing UCLA on Tuesday night, Izzo will pass Bob Knight’s record of 353 victories.
“It is sitting right there,” Izzo said on his weekly radio show Wednesday night on catching Knight, “but there's some obstacles in the way.”
A victory Saturday against the Trojans (12-8, 4-5) would equal the Spartans’ 14-game win streak from the 2017-18 season, which also featured a 13-game win streak. MSU last won 15 straight in 2011-12, Draymond Green’s senior season, while Izzo’s longest single-season win streak was 22 in a row in 1998-99 en route to his first Final Four appearance.