National outlets have begun to forecast the 2020-21 NCAA basketball season with the academic year beginning at the end of this month. Last season, new head coach Juwan Howard and the Michigan Wolverines team that had lost their three highest-scoring players were unranked to begin the season. After a 7-0 start to the year, the team made the biggest jump in the AP Poll in college basketball history jumping all the way to No. 4 before falling to Louisville.
This season will tell a different story if NBC Sports’ calculations are correct as the Wolverines find their way to No.