Saginaw-native Brian Bowen shuffled through his college choices, changed his top schools often and new leaders were named seemingly every day, but Michigan State remained a constant.
There were some who believed Bowen would stay close to home and pick the Spartans who had built a relationship with him since he was a kid. He stayed in contact with Tom Izzo over the years, but Bowen’s eye was wandering.
Other programs were more attractive to him for some reason or another and there was speculation that his recruitment was dirty, especially when he committed to Louisville out of the blue, shutting down the process for good.