Talk about the history of college basketball and it won’t take long for two names to come up: Izzo and Pitino. Tom Izzo has been at Michigan State since 1995, long enough that none of the players on his roster have lived in a basketball world where he wasn’t the Spartans’ head coach.

Michigan State's Tom Izzo joked that he can't escape the Pitino family. This time, the legendary Spartans coach will match up with Richard Pitino, the head coach at New Mexico and son of Hall of Famer Rick Pitino.

Even though their teams haven't faced each other in four years, the admiration between Michigan State's Tom Izzo and New Mexico's Richard Pitino hasn't diminished. The Golden Gophers had a 3-9 record against the Spartans under Pitino,