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.