College basketball rankings: Undefeated Michigan makes huge leap in new Coaches Poll to crash top five

The No. 5 ranking is Michigan's highest mark of the season in the Coaches Poll

By Kyle Boone

Jan 11, 2021 at 12:54 pm ET • 1 min read

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Michigan has its highest ranking of the season in the Coaches Poll, moving up four spots on Monday to No. 5 and supplanting Creighton. The leap comes after the Wolverines defeated No. 16 Minnesota -- its second consecutive win over a ranked opponent -- to improve to a perfect 10-0 on the season.

The Wolverines are the only team in the Big Ten who have yet to take a loss in conference play. It comes a week after in-state rival Michigan State dropped out of the Coaches Poll and the same week it dropped out of the AP Top 25.

Otherwise, the top of the Coaches Poll remained relatively static. Gonzaga, Baylor, Villanova and Texas held steady at 1-4, while Creighton, Kansas and Iowa all dropped one spot to make room for Michigan. Tennessee dropped two spots to No. 10 and Wisconsin moved up one spot to No. 9.

Coaches Poll

The top 25 teams in the USA Today college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Sunday, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week's ranking:

Rank	Team	Record	Points	LW
1	Gonzaga (29)	12-0	797	1
2	Baylor (3)	11-0	771	2
3	Villanova	8-1	722	3
4	Texas	10-1	703	4
5	Michigan	10-0	599	9
6	Creighton	10-2	597	5
7	Kansas	10-2	587	6
8	Iowa	11-2	586	7
9	Wisconsin	10-2	556	10
10	Tennessee	9-1	535	8
11	Houston	10-1	496	11
12	Clemson	9-1	374	18
13	Illinois	9-4	347	12
14	West Virginia	9-4	272	16
15	Texas Tech	10-3	255	19
16	Missouri	7-2	243	13
17	Oregon	9-2	205	15
18	Louisville	8-1	192	25
19	Minnesota	10-4	166	17
20	Virginia Tech	9-2	162	20
21	UCLA	9-2	148	NR
22	Virginia	7-2	147	21
23	Duke	5-2	124	24
24	Saint Louis	7-1	114	23
24	Alabama	9-3	114	NR