EAST LANSING, Mich. (WILX) – Former Michigan State men’s basketball player Paul Davis, attending the game as a fan, was asked to leave Monday night’s Michigan State-USC game at the Breslin Center after saying something to an official.
“What he said, you should never say anywhere in the world… and that ticked me off,” Spartans’ head coach Tom Izzo said after the game.
On Tuesday, Davis joined the Spartans at practice and apologized to the team, and Izzo brought Davis up to the press conference podium afterward to issue a public apology.
“Yesterday shouldn’t have happened, but today needs to happen,” Davis said. “I’m up here to take accountability, to own it. There’s a lot of people that have known me, seen me here for the last 25 years, they know that’s not me, but last night it was.”
MSU hosts Northwestern on Thursday, and Davis said he will be back in attendance for that game.
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