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Following Michigan State’s men’s basketball team’s 53-49 victory over Northwestern on “Senior Day,” Barry Sanders, the former player for the Detroit Lions, had nothing but praise for the Spartans.
Nick Sanders, the son of the program’s head coach Tom Izzo, is a sophomore in his second year of walk-on status. On December 21, in the final seconds of MSU’s victory over Stony Brook, the sophomore made his first basket as a collegiate player.
The elder Sanders described the program as “a great basketball environment” and said that Nick has had “a great experience” playing for Michigan State in an interview with WILX 10. After witnessing his kid wear the Green and White for the past two years, Sanders—who played collegiate ball at Oklahoma State and earned the 1988 Heisman Trophy—has grown to be a fan of the Spartans as well.
“Oh my god, yes. Now hurry up,” Sanders said. “I wouldn’t say I wasn’t one [before], but definitely more of one now.”
