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Michigan basketball, Michigan State basketball slip a bit in USA TODAY coaches poll

Michigan coach Juwan Howard on Franz Wagner's acclimation process, and next season's London game vs. Kentucky. Filmed Dec. 5, 2019. Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press

Another busy week in men’s college basketball produced significant movement in the USA TODAY Sports coaches poll, foreshadowing what figures to be a wide-open NCAA tournament when the end of the season rolls around.

Louisville retained the No. 1 ranking for the second consecutive week. The Cardinals received 28 of 31 first-place votes cast this week after handing then-No. 5 Michigan basketball its first loss of the campaign. Ohio State vaulted from sixth all the way to No.