Tom Izzo is Mr. March, but he is certainly the King of Midnight Madness too. The Michigan State Spartans Coach really knows how to steal the show. Over and over.
Here’s his 2013 opening speech; which begins with an introduction to the woman who played the role of Tom Izzo in the cannon shoot-out.
Here’s Tom Izzo doing an homage to Top Gun. Skip ahead to the middle. It takes awhile to set up, so go past the boring stuff in the beginning.
Tom Izzo as Iron Man, or Iron Mountain Man, denoting his hometown of Iron Mountain, Michigan in the Upper Peninsula. Again just skip ahead to end when you see Tom Izzo and his family come out as superheroes to the Breslin Center.
Tom Izzo and the Michigan State Spartans open with McNeese State but have a brutal nonconference schedule after that. They take on Kentucky at the United Center in Chicago and face North Carolina at home
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