Michigan State basketball has been quiet in the transfer portal so far, but that hasn't changed one national analyst from having the Spartans' as his top team in his early rankings for next season.Despite some transfer portal strikeouts, national college basketball analyst Seth Davis remains extremely high on the Spartans for next season. Davis released a new batch of his "never-too-early" rankings for next season and the Spartans are still his No. 1 team in the country. He was one of a few that initially had Michigan State as the No. 1 team in their preseason rankings for next year, and he is still high on Michigan State a few weeks later.Right behind Michigan State in Davis' poll is Illinois (No. 2), UConn (No. 3), Duke (No. 4), Arizona (No. 5) and rival Michigan (No. 6).

He has six other teams from the Big Ten in his updated poll: Ohio State (No. 17), Purdue (No. 18), UCLA (No. 19), Indiana (No. 20), Wisconsin (No. 23) and Nebraska (No. 24).You can see Davis' full top 25 rankings update in the social media embedded post below:Another edition of the Never-Too-Early Top 25 🔥🗓️In light of recent transfer portal news, @SethDavisHoops updates his early Top 25 NCAA rankings for the 2026-27 college hoops season 👀🔗Full article: https://t.co/SkqGYwUEuTpic.twitter.com/3weY7uDYiK— Hoops HQ (@hhqsports) April 20, 2026Contact/Follow us @The SpartansWire on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Michigan State news, notes and opinion. You can also follow Robert Bondy on X @RobertBondy5.This article originally appeared on Spartans Wire: Spartans remain No. 1 team in updated poll from popular national analyst