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The 2024-25 Badgers will open their season on November 4 against Holy Cross. They will play #9 ranked Arizona on November 15, and #5 ranked Marquette on December 7. Big games include a hot one against Oregon on February 22, and Michigan State on March 2.
After the Wisconsin Badgers went 22-14 overall and 11-9 in the Big Ten, the team was invited to play in the NCAA college tournament. They came in as the No. 5 seed in the South region. The team ran into a hot underdog in the first round, losing to James Madison. Greg Card, head coach of Wisconsin spent the off-season preparing for 2024-25. The team will do without Jordan Davis, Justin Taphorn, and Jahcobi Neath, as they have graduated. AJ Storr came on board for the 2023-24 season. The Badgers won their first two games, beating UW-Stevens Point and Arkansas State. When the team went up against the ninth-ranked Tennessee they met their match. AJ Storr scored 17 points in that game but it wasn't enough to top the Vols. Next up, Bucky lost to Providence in a game that wasn't close. After that, the Badgers won six straight games, including a huge victory over third-ranked Marquette on December 2, 2023. The team lost to top-ranked Arizona on December 9 and then went on a seven-game win streak before facing Penn State. From there, the Badgers went 8-6 basketball before heading to the tournament.
As the 2023-24 season begins, the Badgers roster includes four freshmen, five sophomores, seven juniors, and a graduate student. There are no seniors on the basketball roster this season.
The full roster is AJ Storr, Connor Essegian, Kamari McGee, Tyler Wahl, Isaac Lindsey, Max Klesmit, Luke Haertle, Carter Gilmore, Isaac Gard, Chris Hodges, Steven Crowl, Chucky Hepburn, John Blackwell, Ross Candelino, Nolan Winter, Jack Janicki, Gus Yalden, and Markus Ilver.
The Badgers hoped to make it to the big College Tournament in 2023. Sadly, they fell short after a regular season record of 17-13. They went into the Big Ten Tournament against a tough Ohio State team, losing in the first round. As a result, Wisconsin was invited to the NIT Tournament.
The Wisconsin Badgers entered the NIT as a second-seed team. They first went up against Bradley on March 14 and won easily with a final score of 81-62. In the next round, they faced Liberty on March 19. The Badgers outscored Liberty 75-71. In the third round, they faced top-seeded Oregon on March 21. Bucky stayed hot with a three-point victory, with a final score of 61-58. They were one victory away from making it to the finals. North Texas would stop the great tournament run, they defeated the Badgers 58-61 at Orleans Arena on March 28.
For the 2022-2023 season, the Badgers basketball roster consists of Jahcobi Neath, Jordan Davis, Connor Essigian, Kamari McGee, Tyler Wahl, Isaac Lindsey, Max Klesmit, Luke Haertle, Justin Taphorn, Carter Gilmore, Isaac Gard, Chris Hodges, Steven Crowl, Chucky Hepburn, Ross Candelino, and Markus Ilver. The team consists of five freshmen, four sophomores, five juniors, and just two seniors.
Coaching the Badgers this season is none other than Greg Gard. Gard has been a basketball coach for over three decades, and this is his eighth season as head coach of the Badgers. He won the 2020 Big Ten Coach of the Year award after leading the team to the conference championship. His team also made it to the second round of the NCAA tournament. Gard has previously been honored with the Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year award. His overall record coming into the 2022-2023 season is 144-78. At the end of the 2021-22 season, the Badgers final record was 15-5 as they were named Regular Season Champions. This meant that the Badgers were invited to the NCAA tournament.
The Badgers had been invited to the “Big Dance” for sixteen consecutive seasons. In that time, they have made it to the “Sweet Sixteen” six times. Follow the team as they win at home in the Kohl Center, or on the road.
Believe it or not, the Wisconsin Badgers athletic program is one of the oldest in collegiate sports, dating back to the turn of the 20th century. The Badgers were one of the most successful basketball teams in the early part of the 20th century, winning the national championship three times- 1912, 1914, and 1916. Since collegiate sports went to a tournament field, the Badgers have only won the NCAA tournament one time, and that was in 1941. They have made the Final Four a total of four times: 1941, 2000, 2014, and 2015. Expanding from that, the Badgers have made the Elite Eight five times, plus 1947 and 2005. Expanding out even further they have made the Sweet Sixteen seven times: 2000, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, and 2014. They also won the Big Ten Tournament in 2004 and 2008.
The Badgers have seen 37 former players make it to the NBA, and have produced 21 First-Team All-Americans.
The Wisconsin Badgers have been one of college basketball’s most stable programs for over two decades. The Badgers made the NCAA Tournament over twenty times, with their most recent run to the Finals in 2015.