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Their names are similar, but Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo and North Dakota broadcaster Dom Izzo will miss each other at NCAA Tournament.

Dom Izzo will not be in Western New York this week for the first round of the NCAA Tournament. He's the first to tell you, he's bummed out to miss such a momentous event. Yes.

Dom. That’s not a typo. Dom Izzo is a TV and radio broadcaster from Fargo, North Dakota, who just happens to share a surname with a certain basketball coach from East Lansing .

A veteran of nearly 20 years on the airwaves in Fargo and the current sports director at WDAY-TV, Dom Izzo also handles play-by-play duty for telecasts of the North Dakota State Bison in football, women’s basketball and, yep, men’s basketball. But come Thursday, March 19, there will be no Izzo (non-)family reunion at KeyBank Center in Buffalo. JEFF SEIDEL: Tom Izzo has made Michigan State basketball numb to success It's not for lack of trying.

Dom Izzo (no immediate relation) on Monday, March 16, said he has been worked on connecting with Tom Izzo for years now, to no avail. And he’ll miss another chance when the 3-seed Spartans (25-7) face the 14-seed Bison (27-7) in MSU's East region first-round game Thursday (4:05 p. m.

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