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.

Michigan basketball didn’t exactly have a great week. Sure, it got a win on Sunday in overtime against Northwestern, but it also had an inexplicable loss early in the week at Minnesota — also in overtime.

Where are Mark Pope's Kentucky Wildcats in new AP Top 25 basketball poll and USA TODAY Coaches Poll ahead of their SEC game against Vanderbilt?

Both Michigan basketball teams made small movements in Monday’s AP Top 25 poll. The Michigan men dropped one spot to No. 21. Since last week’s poll, they lost at Minnesota on Thursday and beat Northwestern at home on Sunday.

In this week's Associated Press Top 25 men's basketball poll released Monday, a unanimous No. 1 emerges and two programs enter the rankings following massive turnarounds. Here are five takeaways from

The Kansas Jayhawks fell three spots to No. 12 in the latest Associated Press poll after splitting their conference matchups last week. Kansas suffered a 17-point loss to Iowa State in Ames, but rebounded with a 10-point victory over Kansas State at Allen Fieldhouse.