{"id":285366,"date":"2025-10-08T02:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T02:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/285366\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T02:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T02:26:10","slug":"michigan-vs-michigan-state-basketball-listed-as-a-top-5-rivalry-in-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/285366\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan vs. Michigan State basketball listed as a top-5 rivalry in the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"64\">After watching two consecutive back-breaking football losses, Spartan fans are begging for the return of Michigan State basketball.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"67\">Fortunately, it\u2019s just weeks away.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6a\">The Spartans just held Midnight Madness and the Izzone Campout over the weekend, and Big Ten Media Days is this week. We\u2019ll see Tom Izzo, Coen Carr, and Jeremy Fears representing the program in Rosemont, Ill. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6d\">The return of hoops also signals the return of preseason rankings lists. It helps pass the time from now until the official start of the season, and Andy Katz is known for them.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6g\">Katz recently posted his college basketball venue rankings, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanavenue.com\/michigan-state-s-breslin-center-ranked-the-7th-best-venue-in-college-basketball-01k6e206xbjw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Breslin Center was his seventh-best arena<\/a> in the country. Now, he\u2019s ranking the top rivalries in college basketball, and you just know the Spartans have some hated foes.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6j\">Michigan State\u2019s top rivalry was listed at No. 4 on Katz\u2019s list.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Renewing rivalries \u2668\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAndyKatz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@TheAndyKatz<\/a> ranks the top rivalries for the 2025-26 season \u2694\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uYkGUmuKE2\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/uYkGUmuKE2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NCAA March Madness (@MarchMadnessMBB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarchMadnessMBB\/status\/1975647563761295718?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6p\">It\u2019s really tough to argue any of the rivalries ranked ahead of Michigan State vs. Michigan, especially since most of them involve blue bloods. Duke vs. North Carolina is an obvious No. 1, Kentucky vs. Louisville is a solid No. 2, and Indiana vs. Purdue is a good No. 3. The Michigan vs, Michigan State rivalry has gotten better over the past two decades, but since Tom Izzo has been in charge, he\u2019s held the upper hand by a significant margin (36-16).<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6s\">The rivalry is heating back up again after a few off years and some recent Spartan dominance. The Spartans have won six of the past seven matchups against the Wolverines, including a two-game sweep over Dusty May in 2024-25.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6v\">I\u2019m going to just assume this year\u2019s rivalry game will be much more competitive.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After watching two consecutive back-breaking football losses, Spartan fans are begging for the return of Michigan State basketball.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":285367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,1317,1337,1338,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-285366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115336183108393342","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}