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Michigan State Basketball: 10 bold predictions for 2020-21 season

By Connor Muldowney

Michigan State's Marcus Bingham Jr., right, celebrates with Rocket Watts during a timeout in the second half on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, at the Breslin Center in East Lansing.200225 Msu Iowa 209a
Michigan State's Marcus Bingham Jr., right, celebrates with Rocket Watts during a timeout in the second half on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, at the Breslin Center in East Lansing.200225 Msu Iowa 209a /
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Michigan State poses after beating Ohio State on Sunday, March 8, 2020, at the Breslin Center in East Lansing. The Spartans won a share of the Big Ten Championship.
Michigan State poses after beating Ohio State on Sunday, March 8, 2020, at the Breslin Center in East Lansing. The Spartans won a share of the Big Ten Championship. /

1. Michigan State wins its fourth straight Big Ten title

How hard is it to win a Big Ten title? It’s not easy, especially since the conference expanded league play to 20 games. How hard is it to win two straight? Very. Three in a row? Borderline impossible. Now what about four? It’s unheard of.

Michigan State has a chance to win that fourth straight regular season Big Ten title this year and this might be the deepest the conference has ever been.

The Big Ten has three teams ranked in the top 10, four teams in the top 15 and seven in the top 25. The conference is going to be as competitive as ever, but the Spartans have a relatively favorable schedule.

In fact, I believe they should start conference play 5-0 and I see them finishing the season with 4-5 conference losses which would have been good enough to win the league outright a year ago. Michigan State, Wisconsin and Maryland all finished 14-6 and split the crown.

It could be the same type of thing this year where five losses wins the league and Michigan State will be 15-5 or 16-4 in league play, winning a fourth straight title.

The Spartans may, however, split it once again with a team like Illinois, Wisconsin or Iowa.

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