Shannon Ryan: As college basketball tips off, FBI probe promises to linger over season

Michigan State coach Tom Izzo was asked at Big Ten media day about the shadow of an ongoing FBI investigation into corruption in college basketball hovering over the season.

Asked about fans who may have lost faith in the sport, Izzo might as well have been asked more bluntly: Just how dirty is college basketball?

"Jud Heathcote, rest his soul, used to always tell me about the 10 percent rule," Izzo said, referring to his late predecessor at Michigan State. "There's going to be 10 percent problems in every profession, whether it be coaching, whether it be in business, whether it