Ethan Taylor has been one of Michigan State basketball’s biggest targets during the 2026 high school basketball recruiting cycle. Michigan State is unfortunately going to lose both Jaxon Kohler and Carson Cooper as they will be graduating after this season. With that in mind, the Spartans will need a center for the future, and Taylor would be a great player for Izzo to have.
Taylor is a 7-foot-tall center from Branson, Missouri, who plays for Link Academy, along with current Spartans point guard commit Carlos Medlock and MSU target Tristan Reed. Taylor has listed his final six schools: Michigan State, Kansas, Oklahoma, Oregon, Indiana, and Kentucky.
Recently, Joe Tipton of On3 reported on some of the top uncommitted players in the 2026 high school class. When speaking on Taylor, Tipton reports that Michigan State is firmly in the driver’s seat in their recruitment of him.
“It sounded like Michigan State was the school carrying the momentum coming off the 7-footer’s trip to East Lansing. I haven’t heard anything else that would suggest the Spartans aren’t in a really good spot. Prior to that visit, I was hearing a decent amount of buzz on Indiana, but it sounds like the Hoosiers are now focusing on Arafan Diane.” Said Tipton…