NCAA basketball tournament: Tom Izzo Sweet 16

Michigan State coach Tom Izzo paces the sidelines in the first half of their Sweet 16 game against Virginia during the 2014 NCAA Basketball Tournament at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Friday, March 28, 2014. (Mike Mulholland | MLive.com)

EAST LANSING -- Tom Izzo will return to Michigan State for his 20th season, he announced Wednesday morning on ESPN.

"I'm going to be at Michigan State," Izzo said on a podcast on ESPN.com, starting at about the 14:15 mark.

Izzo recently had been mentioned as a possible head coaching candidate for the Minnesota Timberwolves. Izzo has a friendship with Timberwolves president Flip Saunders.

But he also didn't close the door on possibly leaving to at some point in the future.

"If somebody made me an offer to be the head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers that was so good that it would impress everybody, does that mean I would never say never? I'm not doing that anymore," Izzo said. "I've seen too many people get stung that way. But put it this way, I've got a big-time recruit coming in an hour and if I was leaving I wouldn't be recruiting.''

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