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Per Shipley:
The next coach has to be a star, the team’s biggest star, probably always.
Ask 10 basketball fans who Michigan State’s coach is and 10 will say Tom Izzo. Ask those same 10 people who their leading scorer is and maybe one or two will say Jaden Akins. He’s averaging 13 points a game, but the Spartans won the Big Ten regular-season title — again — and will play in their 27th straight NCAA tournament next week, the longest streak in the country.
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Go Gophers!!
The next coach has to be a star, the team’s biggest star, probably always.
Ask 10 basketball fans who Michigan State’s coach is and 10 will say Tom Izzo. Ask those same 10 people who their leading scorer is and maybe one or two will say Jaden Akins. He’s averaging 13 points a game, but the Spartans won the Big Ten regular-season title — again — and will play in their 27th straight NCAA tournament next week, the longest streak in the country.

John Shipley: Gophers’ next coach has to be program’s true star
To reverse course, Minnesota’s next men’s basketball coach has to be the undisputed face of the program. Finding him won’t be easy.

Go Gophers!!