Michigan State basketball makes top 5 for elite big man Trent Sisley

Michigan State basketball is in the middle of summer conditioning as the team's social media pages are sharing some electric workout videos, but Tom Izzo is still doing work off the court.

In fact, he's been hitting the recruiting trail hard with his new-look staff.

And the newest member of the staff may have just helped Michigan State's chances with a top 2025 target. Four-star big man Trent Sisley just released his top five schools and Michigan State made the cut. It looks like Saddi Washington has some work left to do here.

So Iowa, Indiana, Notre Dame, Michigan State, and Purdue are the last teams standing for Sisley which isn't a huge shock considering he just announced an official visit schedule that included Indiana, Iowa, Michigan State, and Purdue just last week. He's clearly gearing up to make a deicision early in his senior year and the Spartans will have some work to do.

Being from Indiana, Sisley is probably going to lean Hoosiers and Boilermakers early on. He grew up watching these teams in his own backyard, but Michigan State has won some Indiana kids over in the past despite the Hoosiers getting a lot on in-state stars.

Sisley is ranked the No. 73 overall recruit in the 2025 class and he's also the 19th-best power forward, according to the composite. At 6-foot-7, 205 pounds, he'll likely need to add some muscle or grow an inch or two (not sure how likely that is) if he wants to comfortably play power forward in the Big Ten. We saw Malik Hall do it at a similar height, but he was also built like a truck.

Washington could do wonders with Sisley's development.