Tre Holloman has made some questionable decisions over the past 13ish months that he probably wishes he could have back. The first was deciding to transfer away from Tom Izzo and Michigan State where he would have undoubtedly become a legend as the starting shooting guard for a national title contender. The second was choosing to fall for Will Wade’s sales pitch.
Holloman was already becoming somewhat of a Spartan legend last season. He hit that buzzer-beater against Maryland and defended his teammates with shove at midcourt on Senior Day.
Every Michigan State fan grew to love Holloman and then he up and left without much reasoning other than he wanted more of a ball-handling role and he wasn’t going to get that with Jeremy Fears covering those duties exclusively — at least that was the rumor.
After seeing his role at NC State morph into the exact one he had at Michigan State as a junior, Holloman probably had immediate regrets about leaving Izzo.
Shortly after the season ended, Izzo hinted at that. He said that a former player had reached out and basically told him that he regretted ever transferring. The proof that Holloman made a mistake was mounting, but he really proved that leaving Michigan State was a mistake on Saturday afternoon by re-entering the transfer portal with no eligibility left.
Instead of going through the draft process, Holloman would rather apply for a waiver and come back to prove himself somewhere else that gives him a larger role. That just proves that NC State was a bad decision.
Tre Holloman joins Tom Izzo’s all-time “what if” team
Joining the all-time “what if” team in the Izzo era probably isn’t the badge of honor that Holloman wants, but he was truly one season away from being a Spartan legend.
Holloman wasn’t the most talented player to come through East Lansing, but he was a perfect glue piece and a great teammate. He would give you 20-25 really good minutes per game and he had the ability to really take over when he got hot. A senior version of that in East Lansing would have likely given the Spartans the perfect shooting guard to complement Fears in the backcourt.
Fears is the latest “what if” team member in the Izzo era because he legitimately could have lifted the 2025-26 squad to a Final Four and even the title game with a rematch against Michigan.
It could have been a storybook ending to his college career, but now he’s praying on a fifth year.
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