GREENVILLE, S.C. — For decades now, Tom Izzo has seen the man he considers one of the greatest — if not the greatest — of all time lined up opposite of him. Duke versus Michigan State has become a high point when it happens in the regular season and a must-watch game during NCAA tournaments.
And after the No. 7-seeded Spartans barely got by No. 10 Davidson on Friday night, 74-73, Izzo could finally share what had kind of been there all along: He’d get one more chance to beat Mike Krzyzewski and Duke.
Sunday’s second-round matchup will be the sixth NCAA tournament meeting between Izzo and Krzyzewski, in what Izzo dubbed “a great day for college basketball.”
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It’ll also mark the most common head coaching matchup in the history of the tournament, bypassing the five matchups between Roy Williams and Bill Self and between Eddie Sutton and Denny Crum.
“I didn’t want to look ahead and dream of the matchup, because you get a chance, one more time, to play against maybe the all-time…
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