Allen to return for NCAA Tournament
One week after suspending junior guard Chris Allen for an unspecified violation of team rules, MSU men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo said Allen will be able to play in the team’s NCAA first round matchup with New Mexico State on Friday (7:20 p.m., CBS).
Izzo said Allen likely would have played in the Big Ten semifinals if the Spartans had defeated Minnesota.
“It’s going to be interesting to see whether different things affect different people different ways,” Izzo said. “When you make critical decisions like I had to make at a very critical time, you hope it affects the kid but you hope it affects the team and if it doesn’t, it was a bad decision on my part, if it does, it was a great decision on my part.”
Sophomore forward Draymond Green said Allen realized how he hurt the team and believes Allen will be able to respond from the suspension.
“I think he’ll respond well. He’s a competitor and he feels like he let us down,” Green said of Allen. “He talked to us and we talked to him and he’s just ready to get back out there with us and we’re ready to get back on the winning track and we know he’ll be a big key to that.”
With another distraction hopefully behind them, Izzo said he believes the team’s chemistry can finally come together at the best possible time.
“We need everybody pulling for each other, from our secretaries to my managers to the coaches to the players,” Izzo said. “If we get that, we’re going to win some games in this tournament.”
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