After the Spartans beat Louisville on Sunday to advance to the Final Four, players’ cell phones were ringing off the hook with people asking about tickets. Among countless other phone calls, sophomore guard Durrell Summers got a call from childhood friend, former AAU teammate and Michigan star Manny Harris, asking for a ticket.

“Yeah, Manny, that’s my guy,” Summers said. “We grew up together, so we’re going to do what we can to get him in there and support us.”

All the players on the MSU men’s basketball team were each given six tickets for this weekend’s Final Four at Ford Field in Detroit. With such a low amount, their allotment of tickets is mostly reserved for immediate family, but that doesn’t mean others aren’t trying to get a hold of one.

Freshmen forwards Delvon Roe and Draymond Green said they got calls from people they hardly spoke to during the regular season.

“You have a lot of people coming out the woodwork, people who, when I wasn’t playing a lot, didn’t come to see a game,” Green said. “Now that it’s the Final Four everyone wants to come. You’re going to have that all the time, but there’s things you just can’t let get to you. I don’t want to be disrespectful to anyone, but (we) have to stay on a straight path towards our goal.”

People calling for tickets is only one of the numerous distractions facing the team. At his Tuesday press conference, head coach Tom Izzo said he wanted to ask players to keep their cell phones in East Lansing this weekend. Although, as Izzo jokingly said, “that’s unrealistic this day and age. That would be like taking their hearts away from them.” Maybe not. Sophomore guard Kalin Lucas said he turned his cell phone off Sunday and Monday, adding he wouldn’t be opposed to leaving his phone behind in East Lansing.

To get at least one distraction out of the way, Green said Izzo wanted the players to have their ticket situation figured out by Monday, which many of them had done.

Including Summers, who said Harris was more than likely part of his list. As far as what the U-M’s leading scorer will be wearing, that’s still to be determined.

“I don’t know if he’s going to (wear green and white),” Summers said with a laugh. “He might throw on a hat or green T-shirt under some blue.”