The New Mexico Lobos put up a better fight than most fans expected on Sunday night before falling to the second-seeded Michigan State Spartans in the NCAA Tournament's second round, causing head coach Richard Pitino to share his raw feelings after the game.

Talk about the history of college basketball and it won’t take long for two names to come up: Izzo and Pitino. Tom Izzo has been at Michigan State since 1995, long enough that none of the players on his roster have lived in a basketball world where he wasn’t the Spartans’ head coach.

It took Michigan State 30 minutes to wake up against Bryant on Friday night, but Tom Izzo knows his team can't afford to wait so long against New Mexico