The 1920–21 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team represented the University of Michigan in intercollegiate college basketball during the 1920–21 season. The team won its first eight games and its last eight games to finish tied with the Purdue Boilermakers and Wisconsin Badgers for the Western Conference Championship.[1][2]Arthur Karpus served as team captain.[3] On January 29, 1921, the team began a 14-game winning streak against the University of Chicago that continued through a January 6, 1922, victory over Michigan State University, which was at the time known as Michigan Agricultural college. This stood as the longest winning streak in school history until 1985.[4] The team was also involved in setting the longest road winning streaks at the time. It won on January 22, 1921, against Northwestern ending a 7-game road winning streak that had started on December 27, 1920, against the Louisville YMCA. Then on January 29, the team started another 7-game road winning streak against Chicago that lasted until a December 17, 1921, victory at Case. These two 7-game streaks stood as the school road winning streak record until 1985.[4]
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^2007–08 Men's Basketball Media Guide. University of Michigan. 2007. p. 10.
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^"Michigan Five Wins Opener: Kalamazoo College Beaten in Opening Game of Season by Score of 44 to 32". Detroit Free Press. December 11, 1920. p. 12.
^"U. of M. Makes Six-Day Trip: Basketeers Go South for the Holiday Court Tour, Playing Vanderbilt First. Eight Players to Be Taken Along, and All Games Played During Holidays". Detroit Free Press. December 21, 1920. p. 15.
^"Badgers Beat Michigan Five: Wisconsin Wins First Big Ten Basketball Game at Ann Arbor, 27 to 24". Detroit Free Press. January 9, 1921. p. 21.
^"Michigan Gets One Field Goal: Ohio State's Close Guarding Enables It to Win at Basketball, 22-10". Detroit Free Press. January 16, 1921. p. 21.
^"Michigan Puts Chicago Down: Maroons' Chances to Win Big Ten Basketball Title Set Back by 16-14 Defeat". Detroit Free Press. January 31, 1921. p. 10.
^"Aggies Fall Before U. of M.: Close Guarding Contest Goes to the Wolverines--Final Count is 17 to 10". Detroit Free Press. February 24, 1921. p. 12.
^"Michigan Five Climbs Again: Pulls Purdue Down, 19 to 15, Goes Into Triple Tie for Third Place". Detroit Free Press. March 1, 1921. p. 13.
^Benjamin Weiss, born February 26, 1898, in New York City. Educated in the Newark, New Jersey, public schools. Graduated from Michigan in 1921. Engaged in private practice as an orthodontist. Died February 12, 1963, at Tucson, Arizona.
^ a b"University of Michigan Basketball Record Book" (PDF). University of Michigan. p. 23. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 26, 2018. Retrieved March 31, 2012.(The scoring statistics do not include six games of Southern tour.)