Michigan State men's basketball welcomes a highly touted recruiting class next season, but also awaits decisions from a couple of key players who played pivotal roles on a team that reached the NCAA Tournament's Sweet Sixteen.
Despite those questions that linger regarding leading scorer Tyson Walker and forward Malik Hall, the Spartans are popular top-15 picks — and, in some cases, higher than that — in the rash of "way-too-early" rankings that inevitably follow the NCAA championship game.
Most, if not all, of those rankings come with the caveat that the transfer portal and NBA decisions likely will change the landscape before the season hits.