SpartanTailgate - Michigan State Spartans Basketball Recruiting (2024)

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Team News

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Top-ranked AJ Dybantsa's buzzer-beater highlights friday night action at the EYBL

BK Recruiting Eric Bossi May 25, 9:04 AM

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Former Michigan State PG AJ Hoggard transferring to Vanderbilt

BK Recruiting Stephen Brooks May 19, 9:04 AM

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BREAKING: MSU Basketball Lands Transfer Center

BK Recruiting Justin Thind May 14, 12:40 PM

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Former Michigan State center Mady Sissoko commits to Cal

BK Recruiting Stephen Brooks Apr 29, 11:17 AM

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BREAKING: Michigan State lands portal forward Frankie Fidler

BK Recruiting Justin Thind Apr 23, 12:34 PM

Michigan State lands Nebraska-Omaha transfer Frankie Fidler

Brandon Jenkins Apr 23, 12:30 PM

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Transfer portal: Intel on AJ Storr, DJ Wagner, Rylan Griffen, Oumar Ballo, Cade Tyson as decisions loom

BK Recruiting VIP Premium Eric Bossi Apr 16, 9:00 AM

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Adidas 3SSB Saturday: 2025's No. 3 ranked prospect Darryn Peterson and others shine

BK Recruiting Eric Bossi Apr 14, 10:35 AM

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George Mason transfer Keyshawn Hall is down to four schools

BK Recruiting Dushawn London Apr 11, 6:18 PM

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Michigan forward Terrance Williams will enter the transfer portal

BK Recruiting Brandon Jenkins Apr 4, 4:16 PM

Top Targets

Trey McKenney
CG / 6-4 / 225 0.9943
Jordan Scott
SG / 6-7 / 185 0.9725
Darius Acuff Jr.
PG / 6-3 / 180 0.9967
Jerry Easter
SG / 6-5 / 205 0.9892

2025 Recruiting Rankings

The Formula
where c is a specific team's total number of commits and R_n is the 247Sports Composite Rating of the nth-best commit times 100.
Explanation
In order to create the most comprehensive Team Recruiting Ranking without any notion of bias, 247Sports Team Recruiting Ranking is solely based on the 247Sports Composite Rating.
Each recruit is weighted in the rankings according to a Gaussian distribution formula (a bell curve), where a team's best recruit is worth the most points. You can think of a team's point score as being the sum of ratings of all the team's commits where the best recruit is worth 100% of his rating value, the second best recruit is worth nearly 100% of his rating value, down to the last recruit who is worth a small fraction of his rating value. This formula ensures that all commits contribute at least some value to the team's score without heavily rewarding teams that have several more commitments than others.
Readers familiar with the Gaussian distribution formula will note that we use a varying value for σ based on the standard deviation for the total number of commits between schools for the given sport. This standard deviation creates a bell curve with an inflection point near the average number of players recruited per team.
Below is a graphical representation of how our formula works. You can see that the area under the curve gets smaller both as the rating for a commit decreases and as the number of total commits for a school increases. The y-axis in this graph represents the percentage weight of the score that gets applied to an overall team ranking.