EAST LANSING - With less than a week until the official start of the 2015-16 season, the Big Ten Conference released its preseason coaches’ poll and Players to Watch List on Monday, Sept. 28. Michigan State was picked third in the preseason poll, while senior goaltender Jake Hildebrand and junior winger Mackenzie MacEachern were both named to the league’s 12-member Players to Watch List.
The Spartans finished second in last year’s Big Ten regular season standings, just two points behind league champ Minnesota. MSU went 17-16-2 overall and 11-7-2-2 in Big Ten play a season ago.