Michigan State basketball enters the last two weeks of the regular season atop the Big Ten standings. But the Spartans aren't alone in the title hunt.

Two Saturdays ago, Bubba Cunningham sat on national television saying that Michigan State was close to making the Division I Men’s Basketball Committee’s top 16 teams in an early look at the NCAA tournament bracket.

The Spartans took the lead in the Big Ten, but Michigan made sure coach Dusty May won't be leaving anytime soon

Michigan basketball had been steadily rising up the rankings over the course of the 2024-25 college basketball season with big wins over Wisconsin (which is aging quite well as time moves on) and Purdue.

Friday’s 75-62 win in Ann Arbor was the third in six days and the fourth in the last five games for the Spartans (22-5, 13-3 Big Ten). Tom Izzo’s team was No. 13 in last week’s coaches poll after peaking at No.