See where the Spartans land in the many different way-too-early top 25 rankings for next season
Michigan State basketball enters the offseason as a consensus top 20 team for the 2025-26 season.
A tradition like no other, the batch of way-too-early rankings for the 2025-26 season started dropping immediately after the final buzzer of the title game (some even before) and Michigan State was a commonality across the board. Well, except for 247Sports at least.
Heat Check CBB compiled the list of main media outlets that released their way-too-early rankings so far, and created a consensus list of where the top 25 teams landed. In that consensus list, Michigan State came in at No. 18 — which was the fourth-highest of any Big Ten team behind only Purdue (No. 3), Michigan (No. 8) and UCLA (No. 15).
Michigan State was as high as No. 5 in Sporting News’ rankings and as low as being unranked in 247Sports’ list. The Spartans were also fairly high in The Athletic’s rankings at No. 7.
Check out the complete consensus way-too-early rankings in the post below:
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