He finished with seven points on 1-for-7 shooting with four assists and two turnovers but shoots 93.4% on free throws and 44.5% from 3-point range for the season. Loyer missed what would have been a go-ahead 3-pointer with five seconds to play and his team trailing by a point in that game. "And as I said, I've been a Foster fan before, during and I will be after."ĭavidson, coached by Bob McKillop in his 33rd year, won the A-10 regular-season title but received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament, after losing to Richmond in the A-10 tournament championship game Sunday, 64-62, in Washington. But at the same time, at least I know we're playing to a good program that does it the right way. "He probably knows our offense better than we know his. "We gotta go down in their neck of the woods," Izzo said of Davidson College, which is about two hours away in North Carolina. He called his former player "a coach on the floor." Izzo said he has kept in touch frequently with Loyer, who was one of his captains last year.
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"I think personally we learned as a team how to be resilient," freshman guard Max Christie said. And Izzo and his players are going into the NCAAs with confidence. 12 Wisconsin in the Big Ten tournament, before falling Saturday to No. MSU finished tied for seventh (11-9) in the Big Ten, then beat Maryland and No. The Wildcats are led by Loyer, a senior point guard who averages 16.4 points and was named second-team All-Atlantic 10. 10 seed Davidson (27-6) in the first round of the NCAA tournament Friday in Greenville, South Carolina. "It's good for TV," MSU coach Tom Izzo said tongue-in-cheek Sunday night. 7 seed in the West region.įirst up: former Spartan point guard Foster Loyer and Davidson.Īnd potentially next: Duke and coach Mike Krzyzewski. EAST LANSING - There will be plenty of familiarity and storylines waiting when Michigan State basketball opens the NCAA tournament as the No.
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