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Aaron Henry's response to Tom Izzo's outburst shows he was listening

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Coming off Final Four run, Michigan State using last year's experience to motivate them for more this season. Filmed at media day Oct. 15, 2019.

EAST LANSING — For a few days in the middle of March Madness, the talking heads of the college basketball world fixated and took sides on Tom Izzo and Aaron Henry’s back-and-forth sideline confrontation.

It remains baffling how and why that moment morphed into such a national flashpoint. But it remains the pivotal moment when Henry realized his importance to Michigan State basketball — and vice versa.