Michigan State basketball landed just outside the top 20 in the latest released preseason poll for the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n
Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports released an updated preseason poll<\/a> for the next college basketball season, and he has the Spartans sitting just outside the top 20. Michigan State came in at No. 21 in the updated poll from Rothstein.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Among Big Ten teams, Michigan State is ranked fifth. The Spartans are behind Purdue (No. 1), Michigan (No. 5), UCLA (No. 7) and Oregon (No. 20). Rothstein’s rankings include the top 45 teams in the country, so he also had six Big Ten teams listed below the Spartans on the list: Illinois (No. 22), Wisconsin (No. 23), Ohio State (No. 26), Washington (No. 30), Maryland (No. 35), USC (No. 38) and Nebraska (No. 41).<\/p>\n Michigan State has typically been sitting right around this same spot in each of Rothstein’s updated rankings throughout the offseason. This seems like the perfect landing spot for a Spartans team that has plenty of unknowns going into next season, but certainly has the potential to again be a contender in the Big Ten should everything come together.<\/p>\n Click on the post below to see the complete updated rankings from Rothstein:<\/p>\n Contact\/Follow us @The SpartansWire<\/a> on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on Facebook<\/a> to follow ongoing coverage of Michigan State news, notes and opinion. You can also follow Robert Bondy on X @RobertBondy5<\/a>.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n This article originally appeared on Spartans Wire: Spartans remain positioned near top 20 in latest preseason rankings<\/a><\/p>\n