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MSU picked to finish in bottom half of Big Ten East Division in media preseason poll

The Big Ten media is not particularly high on the Spartans entering the 2023 season

The Big Ten media is not particularly high on the Spartans entering the 2023 season.

The annual Big Ten football preseason media poll has been released, and Michigan State is listed to finish in the bottom half of the Big Ten East Division. The poll has Michigan State at No. 5 in the division, behind Maryland and only ahead of Rutgers and Indiana.

Michigan was the top pick to win the Big Ten East Division with 27 first-place votes and Wisconsin was the pick for the West Division with 20 first-place votes.

Check out the complete poll below:

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

See where Michigan State landed in the Big Ten preseason media poll conducted jointly by the Columbus Dispatch and The Athletic

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.

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

MSU picked to finish last in East Division by Big Ten media members

The media members in Big Ten country are not particularly high on Michigan State football entering the 2021 season

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The media members in Big Ten country are not particularly high on Michigan State football entering the 2021 season.

Cleveland.com annually puts out a preseason Big Ten media poll, and this year the Spartans were pegged to finish towards the bottom of the league. Michigan State was picked to finish dead last in the East Division and second to last in the entire league — only ahead of Illinois.

Here’s how the East was picked to finish:

1. Ohio State (34 first-place votes) – 238

2. Penn State – 192

3. Indiana – 169

4. Michigan – 144

5. Maryland – 79

6. Rutgers – 77.5

7. Michigan State – 52.5

For context, first-place votes are worth seven points, second place is worth six points, and so on. So what’s most glaring to me about this poll is how big of a gap in the voting point totals from Rutgers at No. 6 to the Spartans at No. 7. This would suggest that many of the 34 who voted have the Spartans last in the division.

Click on the tweet below to see the entire voting results:

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