re: Do you consider Michigan State basketball blue blood?

I think there are six “blue bloods”: UK, UNC, Duke, Kansas, UCLA and Indiana.

I think MSU’s in the next tier, along with programs like Arizona, Syracuse, Louisville and Georgetown (Georgetown has maybe fallen a tier recently, but these types of tiers are not very fluid, and I still think highly of Georgetown as a program). You can argue programs like Villanova and Gonzaga have also worked their way into that tier in recent years.