Every year since 1953, the Portsmouth Invitational has been an opportunity for seniors to showcase their skills to NBA and Euroleague scouts to try and find a landing spot at the next level. This year, Michigan State basketball will have two representatives at the event who will use it as a platform to keep playing basketball professionally: Jaxon Kohler and Carson Cooper.
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New Mexico transfer Tomislav Buljan has reported that he has been in contact with Michigan State, amongst other schools. A 6-foot-9, 250 pound big man, he had a monster first season in college basketball, averaging 13.1 points and 10.3 rebounds per game.
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Michigan State’s superstar is exploring his options at the pro level. On Friday afternoon, All-American MSU point guard Jeremy Fears Jr. announced via social media that he would be entering the NBA Draft process while holding onto his two remaining seasons of college eligibility. Fears led the Spartans with 15.2 points per game and led the nation with 9.4 assists per game as a redshirt sophomore.
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Michigan State’s incoming recruiting class is among the best in the country. Four highly touted four-star prospects have the Spartans’ 2026 class ranked third in the country. One of the biggest names in that class is Link Academy (Mo.) center Ethan Taylor, who is ranked 30th overall in the class and third among centers on the 247Sports Composite.
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Can Izzo’s methods still work? I think there is some evidence that they can and we’ve seen different approaches to the transfer portal have success. Michigan won it all this year in large part due to an amazing transfer class.
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One of the biggest reasons to still be optimistic about Michigan State’s basketball future is the team’s incoming recruiting class. Prior to the opening of the transfer portal on Tuesday, Tom Izzo and the Spartans boasted the No. 3 high school recruiting class in the entire country, according to 247Sports. Duke is in first, while Michigan is in second.
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The craziest part of the college basketball calendar is here, with the transfer portal officially opening, and the sport’s version of free agency and roster management getting fully underway. Michigan State won’t be a stranger to the portal this year, with the coaching staff knowing the roster holes they must fill in order to make themselves a true Final Four contender next season.
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Kaleb Glenn was one of the players Spartan fans were most excited to see suit up this season. Unfortunately, Glenn suffered a serious knee injury back in June that sidelined him for the entire year, and his absence was felt throughout the season by Tom Izzo and the Michigan State program. The silver lining is that the injury allowed Glenn to redshirt, preserving a full year of eligibility while giving him the opportunity to learn Izzo’s system from the inside.
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Cam Ward arrived at Michigan State as the highest-rated freshman in the 2025 recruiting class for the Spartans. As a senior in high school, Ward averaged 29.5 points, 12.7 rebounds, 4.0 assists, and 2.8 blocks per game. His play led the Largo Lions to back-to-back state championships, and he earned Gatorade Player of the Year honors in Maryland in both his junior and senior seasons.
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Coen Carr is so athletic that at least one professional football team has been willing to give him a look. Last week, the high-flying Michigan State basketball star appeared in an interview with “I Am Athlete” alongside host Darian Rencher. During the interview, Carr revealed that “like four” NFL teams have asked his academic advisors questions about him while on trips to see the Spartans’ football team. Rencher indicated that the Chicago Bears were one of those teams.
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Tom Izzo is an honest person and that’s what everyone loves about him. He will tell it like it is and he doesn’t often keep secrets. So when he appeared on the Dan Patrick Show on Wednesday, he didn’t think twice about sharing the fact that he flirted with an NBA opening last year.
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Michigan State men’s basketball redshirt sophomore guard Jeremy Fears Jr. was one of 10 players selected to the John R. Wooden Award® All-America Team, announced on Tuesday night on ESPN2. The Wooden Award All-American Team is comprised of 10 student athletes who were the top vote-getters in the quest to earn college basketball’s most prestigious honor
Tom Izzo announced on Tim Staudt’s radio show on Tuesday morning that Michigan State would be playing Arkansas at Little Caesars Arena on Thanksgiving Day. MSU hosted Arkansas on Nov. 8 as the first part of an originally agreed-upon two-year home-and-home series. The details at the moment aren’t clear if that is still the case. Izzo added the Michigan State-Arkansas game on Thanksgiving Day will follow the Detroit Lions’ me that day in Detroit as well.
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It’s not hyperbole to say that we just saw one of the best seasons ever for a Michigan State point guard. There have been plenty of great point guards to represent the Spartans, and Jeremy Fears Jr. is now comfortably on the list. What’s even better is that he has two more seasons of eligibility remaining.
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The frontcourt for Michigan State is going to look different next season. MSU is losing both starting power forward Jaxon Kohler and starting center Carson Cooper. There are other Spartans (and maybe a transfer or two) who will be looking to fill the vacancy left behind by Kohler and Cooper in the starting lineup, but we’ll have to see how things shake out in the coming weeks as the opening of the transfer portal nears.
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Izzo, in response to a question from Tim Staudt, said that a former player has been texting him for the past three weeks about the ‘mistake’ he made in transferring out of Michigan State. Izzo declined to share which player this was, obviously, but a lot of people are assuming this is Tre Holloman.
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Analyzing next season’s Michigan State basketball roster before the transfer portal opens is a risky and perhaps ridiculous exercise. Within hours of publishing last season, three MSU players were in the transfer portal. This year, the portal doesn’t officially open until April 7, so we’ll take a stab at it. As of early Monday morning, March 30, these are the scholarship players slated to be on the 2026-27 MSU men’s basketball team.
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While there are no questions around Izzo’s return for next season, that is not the case about the roster. I’m going to discuss retention and possible addition via the transfer portal in a little bit, so for now, let’s focus on what we know for sure about the Spartans’ roster for next year.
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In the ever-changing landscape of college basketball, the four-year, one-program senior has become a rare commodity. Attributable to the transfer portal, NIL and sports agents, many players leave one program for another without gaining the necessary skills to further their development. It’s a trend that has hindered not only players’ talent but also the programs they leave.
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Like it had in seemingly every big game this season, Michigan State found itself down early against UConn on Friday night in the Sweet 16. The Spartans were down 25-6 in the first half and it looked like they were going to get run out of the gym. Fortunately, like every other time the Spartans found themselves in a big hole early, they made a furious comeback, but ran out of steam in the final eight minutes to lose, 67-63.
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