Wisconsin Badgers Thread

[MVP2110]

I member when people were sayin badgers would win out and oregon sucked.

Oregon does suck.

I mean Oregon is pretty easily a tournament team. They aren't great but they also aren't anywhere near being terrible

[chonestown]

Second shift will come up early for Klesmit, so go easy if you're getting new tires at the Fleet Farm off 41 in Oshkosh mid-day tomorrow.

[ReginaldDwight]

Team looks ripe for another tourney crashout. Why bring a dude in who can actually play and then revert to the same bums youve had down the wire in a close game. Worrying that they will do the same in the tourney.

[BUCKnation]

Good learning experience/wake up call hopefully

[MVP2110]

I mean Tonje put up 20 shots yesterday. He was 9/20 from the field and 2/10 from 3. Yesterday was hardly a good game from him.

[Kerb Hohl]

Yeah, as most others probably have stated, this is like your reliable running back fumbling at the end of a game once. I don't think I'm expecting the ball to bounce off of Blackwell's chest or hands twice again.

That said, I was irrationally happy when that 3 went in for Oregon to tie it. "Yes, we can't **** this up in regulation and get the last shot (which was a decent look)." It felt like we were never going to advance the ball past half court and with fouls to give, it felt as hopeless as a 5 and later 3 point lead could.

I'm now wondering why Oregon didn't continue to press in the tie game. Why not? You had like 3 fouls to give. I don't think the Badgers would've taken advantage of a 3 on 2 or something to try to score with 10 seconds left. Odds are that Oregon would've gotten a turnover and their own shot at the end of regulation instead.

[chonestown]

Pretty much had to laugh at the Badgers' inability to secure the orange roundie. Would have almost thought they were in the tank for <name your online betting service>.

Nate Biddle (sp) do look like a young Randall "Tex" Cobb, no?

[Kerb Hohl]

I member when people were sayin badgers would win out and oregon sucked.

Oregon does suck.

I mean Oregon is pretty easily a tournament team. They aren't great but they also aren't anywhere near being terrible

Right...Oregon beat 2 great teams in Bama and A&M at a neutral site. They beat Maryland, won at OSU.

This is just a great feeling. I never thought with Gard I'd be back to "[team we lost to with deceiving record/losses] is not that bad!" defense as I spent all of the old Gard days doing. It means we're back, baby.

[skbucks1985]

They stayed at 11 in the AP Poll. I think the Oregon loss will be more of a missed opportunity than anything else. It probably cost them a shot at winning the Big Ten (almost certainly a shot at winning it outright), they could've all but sealed a spot in Milwaukee although they got a big help in that area from Indiana's win over Purdue 24 hours later and I think whatever slim chance they had of getting a 1 seed is probably now gone.

[DingleJerry]

I still really can't believe they lost that game. In general losing to Oregon on paper isn't a bad loss. Doing it that way was brutal and extremely hard to believe with how they'd been playing along with great FT team, low turnover, multiple guard/handlers, etc.

We have sucked vs the press for like 20 years now though. And their D formula of getting up in the UW players grill with ball pressure has been a pain for years vs teams like MSU that have the athletes to do it. Have to fight through it, force the action and/or refs to make the calls. Probably should've pushed Tonje to handle more and told him to just keep driving/fighting through the bumping, he's tough enough to handle it and is good at milking foul calls. But really its all overthinking, just inbound the ball and make FTS you win.

[skbucks1985]

I don't think the last 2-3 minutes and OT was much about X's and O's. It just seemed like the moment got to them and they got really tight. The offensive possessions were 1-2 passes and then either take a contested 3 or go to the lane and hope to get a call or a drive and kick opportunity that never came.

[Kerb Hohl]

I still really can't believe they lost that game. In general losing to Oregon on paper isn't a bad loss. Doing it that way was brutal and extremely hard to believe with how they'd been playing along with great FT team, low turnover, multiple guard/handlers, etc.

We have sucked vs the press for like 20 years now though. And their D formula of getting up in the UW players grill with ball pressure has been a pain for years vs teams like MSU that have the athletes to do it. Have to fight through it, force the action and/or refs to make the calls. Probably should've pushed Tonje to handle more and told him to just keep driving/fighting through the bumping, he's tough enough to handle it and is good at milking foul calls. But really its all overthinking, just inbound the ball and make FTS you win.

This is why we had lost like 8 or 9 in a row to Illinois. The right combo of teams that can get up in their grill and press the less athletic UW defense over the years is the program kryptonite (everyone has one). Easier said than done, though.

[MVP2110]

Lunardi's most recent projection has Wisconsin as a 3 seed, and if they win a likely rematch with 6 seed Marquette in the 2nd round

https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/page/bracketology/ncaa-bracketology-2025-march-madness-men-field-predictions

[skbucks1985]

Lunardi's most recent projection has Wisconsin as a 3 seed, and if they win a likely rematch with 6 seed Marquette in the 2nd round

https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/page/bracketology/ncaa-bracketology-2025-march-madness-men-field-predictions

In this bracketology they send MSU to Milwaukee and Wisconsin to Cleveland, it would almost certainly be the inverse because MSU is closer to Cleveland than it is to Milwaukee not by a huge amount (~80 miles) but not a totally negligible amount either.

[MVP2110]

Lunardi's most recent projection has Wisconsin as a 3 seed, and if they win a likely rematch with 6 seed Marquette in the 2nd round

https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/page/bracketology/ncaa-bracketology-2025-march-madness-men-field-predictions

In this bracketology they send MSU to Milwaukee and Wisconsin to Cleveland, it would almost certainly be the inverse because MSU is closer to Cleveland than it is to Milwaukee not by a huge amount (~80 miles) but not a totally negligible amount either.

Yea I was wondering about that too, not sure if it has something to do with the fact that Marquette can't play in Milwaukee but then you'd think they could just easily switch out Marquette for another 6 seed

[MikeIsGood]

I didn't realize Marquette had fallen so hard recently. They've lost four of six.

[skbucks1985]

It is interesting that Wisconsin is probably on the 3 line right now with a chance at getting to the 2 and a bunch of teams on the 6/7 line that would make for some very intriguing matchups. In addition to Marquette, you've got Kansas with Storr and Louisville with Chucky as other possible 2nd round matchups.

[MickeyDavis]

I didn't realize Marquette had fallen so hard recently. They've lost four of six.

They are definitely on a skid. I think they have the talent to go on a run and get back to a top 4 seed. We'll see.

[MVP2110]

A nice bounce back win over a crappy Washington team last night. Also got some help with Iowa St losing to a bad Oklahoma St squad

[skbucks1985]

There was definitely no hangover after the Oregon loss which was really the only thing to watch out for in that game. The path to Milwaukee was definitely helped by a loss to a bad Oklahoma State team. A win over MSU probably all but seals them going to Milwaukee, but I don't think a loss really hurts them in that respect. A win would put them IMO pretty firmly on the 2 line while a loss keeps them where they are which is probably on the 3 line with a shot at getting a 2.