Jud Heathcote's mentoring, humor made him a pillar of Michigan State basketball

Posted Sep 6, 2017
Tom Izzo couldn’t go a week without dropping Jud Heathcote’s name during an interview. He couldn’t go a day without talking to him. It seemed like it anyway. Heathcote cast that kind of shadow over the man he picked to replace him as Michigan State’s basketball coach when he retired in 1995. Heathcote, who won a national title coaching the Spartans in 1979, died Monday at the age of 90. (Detroit Free Press)

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