Legendary Michigan State Spartans head coach Tom Izzo unleashed a bizarre rant about analytics in the aftermath of an 88–74 loss to Northwestern on Sunday night.
Izzo, 68, has been openly critical of many of the modern elements of basketball in recent years, including several tirades about the failings of the transfer portal. Sunday, he took aim at advanced metrics in a seemingly-unprompted press conference diatribe during which he referred to analytics as “phony”.
“I hate analytics, because they’re phony. Sooner or later, you look in a guy’s heart, you look in a guy’s eye, and then you find out about a guy,” Izzo said. “Everyone in the NBA and college now, they want analytics. Analytics, what does analytics mean here? Does that mean we won the game? Analytics are crap.”
