1920–21 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team

1920–21 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball
Big Ten regular season co-champions
ConferenceBig Ten Conference
Record18–4 (8–4 Big Nine)
Head coach
CaptainArthur Karpus
1920–21 Big Ten Conference men's basketball standings
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
Michigan 8 4   .667 18 4   .818
Wisconsin 8 4   .667 13 4   .765
Purdue 8 4   .667 13 7   .650
Minnesota 7 5   .583 10 5   .667
Illinois 7 5   .583 11 7   .611
Indiana 6 5   .545 15 6   .714
Iowa 6 5   .545 9 9   .500
Chicago 6 6   .500 14 6   .700
Ohio State 2 10   .167 4 13   .235
Northwestern 1 11   .083 2 12   .143

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. Arthur Karpus served as team captain. 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. 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.