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Michigan basketball is on a roll after demolishing Northwestern last night to move to 9-0 on the season. With the first NET rankings of 2021 debuting this morning, the Wolverines found themselves ranked 6th in the country.
If you don’t know exactly what the NET Rankings are in college basketball, don’t worry, most people don’t. What’s important to know is that it is an analytics driven rankings system that is used by the committee who selects the NCAA Tournament teams and seeding. If you want to know more details about the rankings and the analytics involved, check out this helpful article.