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Midnight Cladness

Every year the top Spartan gets a jump on Halloween

Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo is known for deep tournament runs and sideline tirades in which the veins in his neck look as if they might explode. Apparently he's more relaxed in the preseason—based on his practice of arriving at Midnight Madness in outlandish getups. Behold his top eight costumes dating to 2003, and a guess at what he may don at midnight on Oct. 24. As Izzo himself might have asked while in his '07 garb, Are you not entertained?

DAVY CROCKETT

2003

MILITARY TRIBUTE

2005

GLADIATOR

2007

FLOWER CHILD

2008

F1 RACER

2009

ASTRONAUT

2010

FIGHTER PILOT

2011

IRON MAN

2012

HARRY POTTER???

2014

SIGN OF THE APOCALYPSE

An Eagles fan stole a Vietnam veteran's prosthetic leg outside Lincoln Financial Field before Philly's 27--0 win over the Giants and left it on a train.

EIGHT PHOTOS

AL GOLDIS/AP (IZZO)

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY SI PREMEDIA; AL TIELEMANS/SPORTS ILLUSTRATED (IZZO HEAD)

PHOTO

WARNER BROS./PHOTOFEST (POTTER)