Sigh. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. After starting the season as the unanimous No. 1 team in the country Michigan State Men’s Basketball has officially fallen out of the AP Poll top-25 after recent losses to Michigan, Penn State, Indiana, and Wisconsin.
According to Kyle Austin of MLive, this is just the second time in NCAA history (with the last time coming in 1968) that the preseason No. 1 team has fallen out of the AP Poll top-25.
While they did not quite make the cut, they still received the most votes of any team that was not included in the top-25. The Spartans received 124 votes in total.
I personally think this is a little bit of a dramatic overreaction by the poll, and MSU is still in the top-25 of the Coaches Poll. Michigan State will immediately get back into that top-25 zone if they can knock off Illinois on the road tomorrow in a huge Big Ten match-up.
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