'Ticked off' Tom Izzo rants about NCAA transfer portal opening as Michigan State prepares for Sweet 16

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Michigan State Spartans men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo appeared to be irked over a question about the opening of the transfer portal on Tuesday as his team prepared for the Sweet 16.

The NCAA transfer portal opened Monday, with several moves already being made. As Izzo addressed the media about the team’s upcoming March Madness matchup against Ole Miss, he naturally received a question about the portal but took a contentious tone.

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Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo gestures during the New Mexico game in the NCAA tournament, Sunday, March 23, 2025, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

He said he was "ticked off" that the reporter asked him the question.

"I'm not dealing with it at all. The only thing that I would deal with is, I don't run players off. So you gotta have spots to pick up transfers," Izzo said of the program handling the portal, via the Detroit Free Press. "And maybe we'd have one (spot) if everybody came back. Maybe we wouldn't. If you don't have spots, why are you doing that? So that I can get somebody better? I can get a better girlfriend, because one I got isn't good enough? I don't know, get a better wife, because the one I got isn't good enough?

"It's not a loaded question, it's one I really have zero interest in answering, because I think it's ridiculous that the NCAA or any other entity put these two things together that people like you have to ask these questions. And I value that you have to ask them. And I do get upset when people are talking to