Big Ten Basketball: Biggest storylines for each team entering 2024-25 season
Michigan State Spartans: Sophomore breakouts
It’s year 30 of the Tom Izzo era and the storyline for the 2024-25 Spartans lies with its sophomores.
Xavier Booker and Jeremy Fears -- named among the top-10 sophomore breakout candidates entering the 2024-25 season -- expect to play expanded roles.
Fears, who was shot in the leg last December, looks ready to lead the Spartans at PG. Booker, seldom used last season, put on big-time muscle this offseason and his jumper looks much improved.
Alongside Fears and Booker, another sophomore primed to take the year-two leap is Coen Carr, the high-flying, ultra-athletic forward who showed flashes of promise last season.
Coen Carr (@Coencarr2) is taking his sophomore yr PERSONAL 😳🍿
— GREENLIGHT MEDIA (@atlgreenlight) August 19, 2024
The 6’5” wing has been high flying & getting better all offseason—flashes of athleticism & game sense filled up his 11.6 MPG last yr for @MSU_Basketball
With more opportunity, Carr’s stock is set to skyrocket 📈 pic.twitter.com/wFgmZM7KpF
Losing veterans Tyson Walker and AJ Hoggard hurt, but the development of its sophomores in Fears, Booker and Carr will be the key storyline for the Spartans in 2024-25.