Michigan (13-5 overall, 4-3 Big Ten) has won three straight, most recently Saturday’s 87-71 victory over Rutgers at Crisler Center. Michigan’s defense was locked in from the start. Rutgers guard Kiyomi McMiller entered as the Big Ten’s second-leading scorer at 20 points per game. She missed all eight of her shots against Michigan and didn’t score.

With the latest USA TODAY Sports coaches poll released, Michigan basketball came in ranked No. 20. It only has one game this upcoming week but it’s against No. 12 Purdue in West Lafayette on Friday. Get an upset there, then it has a shot to right the wrongs of this past week.

The 2024-25 Michigan high school boys basketball season is underway, and High School on SI has started its weekly computer rankings for the season. SBLive's for

The top 10 teams in the Michigan Sports Writers high school boys basketball poll, with first-place votes in brackets, records in parenthesis, poll points and last week’s ranking. Totals are based on 15 points for a first-place vote, 14 for second, etc. Poll is for Jan. 21, 2025.