Michigan State basketball picked to finish near top of Big Ten in preseason media poll

Michigan State basketball will enter the 2022-23 season as one of the favorites to win the league, according to the media.

The Columbus Dispatch and The Athletic teamed up to put together a preseason Big Ten basketball media poll — which ranked how each team would finish this year. From the voting, it is clear that the media thinks it’ll be a pretty competitive season at the top of the league but there is one squad who enters the season clearly above everyone else.

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See where Michigan State and every other Big Ten team ends up in the preseason poll released on Monday:

13

Nebraska

42 points

12

Northwestern

56 points

11

Minnesota

86 points

10

Penn State

118 points

9

Maryland

153 points

8

Rutgers

202 points

7

Iowa

235 points (1 first-place vote)

6

Ohio State

253 points

5

Purdue

279 points (1 first-place vote)

4

Michigan State

281 points

3

Michigan

328 points (1 first-place vote)

2

Illinois

339 points (6 first-place votes)

1

Indiana

377 points (19 first-place votes)

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