Goran Suton News

The season gets under way tonight - seriously, tonight - and we asked writers Jason King and Mike Huguenin for their thoughts about the potential "fatal flaws" of our preseason top-five teams: JASON KING'S RESPONSE 1. Kansas : Sherron Collins is arguably the top point guard in the country, but sometimes he tries to do too much.

For a team picked No. 2 in the Associated Press basketball preseason poll, Michigan State has quite a few personnel concerns entering this season.

The Big Ten put seven teams in the NCAA tournament last season, and only put two players in the NBA Draft.

Coach: Tom Izzo . Last season's record: 31-7 overall, 15-3 in Big Ten . Postseason: Lost in national championship game to North Carolina .

Hasheem Thabeet's play last night was familiar to people who watched him against Michigan State.

Michigan State will open its season on Nov. 13 as the No. 2 team in the country when the Spartans take on Florida Gulf Coast.

Michigan State's run to the national title game a year ago in nearby Detroit is old news entering the 2009-10 college basketball season.

Michigan State and Michigan find themselves among five Big Ten teams ranked in the preseason ESPN/USA Today Top 25 college basketball coaches' poll, released Wednesday.

Tom Crean was so excited for this season to start that his wife had to remind him to put on a show for the fans at Hoosier Hysteria, not run conditioning drills.

Saturday's men's basketball Green and White game meant ditto in the win and loss column, but provided fans with a first-hand look at some of the team's biggest story lines entering the season.

Goran Suton was in the MSU basketball office Friday seeking advice for his next move after being released this week by the NBA's Utah Jazz.

Former MSU center Goran Suton was among three players waived by the Utah Jazz on Wednesday, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.

The Big Ten was an extremely competitive conference last year. Though Indiana and Iowa often struggled, every other team was in the mix for a spot in the NCAA Tournament.

Michigan State's mens basketball team finds itself in the familiar spot of having high expectations, especially coming off an appearance in the NCAA tournament championship game.

EAST LANSING - A Final Four fresh in the memory bank, some key senior losses, stratospheric expectations anyway, and the national championship as a stated goal.

Michigan State coach Tom Izzo likes the lofty preseason accolades for his team but remains cautious due to the loss of two key players from last year's Final Four team.

Michigan State's two national championship trophies are on display in a glass case near Tom Izzo's office.

Since leaving his war-torn country as a teenager, Bosnia-Herzegovina native Goran Suton has returned to Europe a couple of times to play basketball.

Salt Lake City - Jazz draft picks Goran Suton and Eric Maynor hold their new jerseys at Friday's press conference where the Utah Jazz welcomed their top two draft picks, point guard Eric Maynor and center Goran Suton, to Salt Lake City Friday, June 26, 2009.

The upcoming book One Fantastic Ride is the ultimate insiders' account of Carolina's 2008-09 NCAA championship season.