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After beating two top ten teams in the AP Top 25 during Thanksgiving, Michigan basketball vaulted up from unranked to No. 4 overall. But after losing to No. 1 Louisville, could it hold onto a high-end ranking?
Turns out, the answer is yes.
After the loss in Kentucky, the Wolverines managed to take down a solid Iowa team in Ann Arbor, meaning that the maize and blue remained one of the few teams either in the one-loss category or unbeaten. Thus, Michigan only dropped one spot to No. 5 in the latest AP Top 25.
But the road doesn’t get much easier. Though it takes on an unranked Illinois on the road on Wednesday, the Wolverines host No. 10 Oregon on Saturday. There are no ranked teams for the rest of the month, as is usually the case in mid-to-late December, but in January, Big Ten conference play resumes, with No. 16 Michigan State, the former No. 1 team, starting the schedule gauntlet in earnest, with the game being in East Lansing on Jan. 5.
Full rankings:
- Louisville
- Kansas
- Ohio State
- Maryland
- MICHIGAN
- Gonzaga
- Duke
- Kentucky
- Virginia
- Oregon
- Baylor
- Auburn
- Memphis
- Dayton
- Arizona
- Michigan State
- North Carolina
- Butler
- Tennessee
- Villanova
- Florida State
- Seton Hall
- Xavier
- Colorado
- San Diego State