The 2027 high school basketball class is starting to take shape, and Michigan State is already sitting in the middle of it with a stack of elite names.
With Nike EYBL, Peach Jam and other summer events rolling on over the past month, the rankings have been moving fast. One of the biggest risers has been Cayden Daughtry, a player Spartans coach Tom Izzo watched not long ago. But for Michigan State, the more interesting development is the number of high-end 2027 targets showing up in the newest Field of 68 top 68.
The Spartans are in on seven - and maybe even eight - of those prospects.
The new rankings, posted by The Field of 68 on July 21, 2026, list the Michigan State targets like this:
Jordan Page, SF - No. 13
Asa Montgomery, CG - No. 14
Nasir Anderson, PG - No. 18
Antonio Pemberton, PG - No. 20
Jaxson Davis, PG - No. 33
Jadyn Jenkins, C - No. 49
Joshua Tyson, CG - No. 54
Kamsi Awaka, C - No. 59
Page and Montgomery are the newest names to really pop for the Spartans, and both are trending toward five-star status with top-10 potential. Pemberton, Davis, Jenkins, Tyson and Awaka round out the rest of the group, giving Michigan State a wide range of options across the board.
Anderson is the one name with a little more uncertainty attached. He’s on the list, but Michigan State hasn’t been mentioned in his recruitment much lately, so that one feels more like a maybe than the rest.
Still, the overall picture is clear: Michigan State has positioned itself well with a deep group of 2027 talent.
If you try to sketch out what an ideal class might look like, it gets tricky fast. Rosters will change, the transfer portal will keep moving, and a lot can happen before these players ever make a college decision. But if you assume Michigan State only loses Coen Carr, Jeremy Fears Jr. and Anton Bonke after next season, then the Spartans would be looking to replace key pieces.
Bonke could come back, and Carr and Fears could as well, but the most likely outcome is that at least two of them are gone after 2026-27.
In that scenario, a class built around Page, Pemberton and Jenkins would be hard to beat. The guard options are there, but Page stands out as the most realistic and highest-ranked of the bunch.
If Michigan State somehow landed Page, Pemberton and Jenkins to replace Carr, Fears and Bonke, there would be plenty of reason for excitement. The perfect version of that class may be a long shot, but it’s easy to see why the Spartans are already dreaming big.
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