After landing a commitment from Harvard transfer and son of associate head coach Doug Wojcik, Denham Wojcik, on Friday, Tom Izzo wrapped up the 2025 cycle with six new additions.
The Spartans added Cam Ward and Jordan Scott from the 2025 class as well as Wojcik, Divine Ugochukwu, Trey Fort, and Kaleb Glenn from the transfer portal. It seems like a solid haul for a coach coming off another Big Ten title and trip to the Elite Eight, but it has been met with some doubt.
As teams all around the country have been adding elite talent from the portal and overpaying for it, Izzo has quietly pieced together a roster he felt fit his style and met the team's needs.
It does and it did.
Yet some fans are ready to look ahead to the 2026-27 season already as they assume the new additions won't be enough to replace departures from Tre Holloman, Jase Richardson, Jaden Akins, Xavier Booker, Frankie Fidler, and Szymon Zapala. It's a fair doubt.
However, after he won another Big Ten title and made the Elite Eight, you would think that people would give him the benefit of the doubt again.
Nope.
All over social media, I've seen some fans say that he's past his prime or he continues to fail to adjust to the times or that he's not really "dying trying" on the whole pursuit for No. 2 like he said.
I think the exact opposite.
The old Izzo wouldn't even consider adding more than 1-2 players from the transfer portal, let alone four. He also wouldn't find guys who could start over the players he recruited but he has two incoming transfers who are projected to start.
Not only that, but he has some key returning players like Coen Carr, Jaxon Kohler, Carson Cooper, and Jeremy Fears Jr. with NCAA Tournament experience to lead the group.
And then there's Kur Teng and Jesse McCulloch primed for sophomore leaps.
Don't count out the two top-50-ranked freshmen either.
No matter what Izzo does, he seems to be met with doubt, but just like last offseason, he's going to have to prepare to prove the doubters wrong yet again.