Best of Midnight Madness: Tom Izzo dresses as a member of ‘KISS’

Midnight Madness produces some memorable moments each year, so The Dagger is chronicling the best ones from this October’s lineup. If you spot something we missed, let us know here or here.

Tom Izzo talks to the crowd while dressed as a member of the band Kiss (AP) The king of the creative Midnight Madness entrance outdid himself this year. Tom Izzo arrived at Michigan State Madness on Friday night clad in a KISS costume so elaborate it was difficult to even recognize the veteran Spartans coach. The precursor to the costume was a video in which Izzo and his family discussed what he would have done had he not been a coach. That led to a daydream sequence in which a college-age Izzo and close friend Steve Mariucci joke about the future Michigan State coach joining a band. And with that the video board at the Breslin Center cut to the arena’s loading dock, where a tour bus arrived carrying the Spartans players and Izzo, clad in a black wig, face paint, black leather and spikes. He joined a KISS tribute band on stage before addressing the crowd. In past years, Izzo has pulled off all sorts of creative Midnight Madness entrances, from dressing as Iron Man, to driving a race car, to rappelling from the ceiling, to being shot out of a cannon. This probably isn’t No. 1 on the list, but it’s further proof the king of Midnight Madness isn’t abdicating his crown anytime soon.