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Arena: Kohl Center
Coach: Greg Gard

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Team Summary

Wisconsin has gotten off to a great start to their 2021-22 season as they are 16-3 on the season and sit at 2nd in the Big Ten. Coming off of a subpar year, Wisconsin was thought to be a middle-of-the-pack Big Ten team, but they have really been able to make some waves this year. Wisconsin is ranked #11 in the country and has an inside track to a high seed in the NCAA tournament.

Wisconsin is scoring 72.7 points a game this year while they only allow 66.8 points per game. They grab 35.8 rebounds a game and dish off 11.6 assists per contest. These are very pedestrian marks in college basketball, but Wisconsin gets the job done.

Johnny Davis leads the team in scoring with 21.7 points per game. He also leads the team in assists with 2.6 per game. Davis leads the team in rebounds with 7.5 per game and leads the team in steals with 1.4 per game. Davis is a do-it-all player for Wisconsin.

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Team History

Dr. James C. Elsom coached the inaugural Wisconsin Badger basketball team, which was formed in December of 1898. On January 21, 1899, the Badgers played their debut game, losing 25–15 against the Milwaukee Normal Alumni in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Christian Steinmetz was the first Wisconsin Badger basketball player to earn All-American honors in 1905. Under the direction of Emmett Angell, Wisconsin won its first share of the Big Ten Championship in 1906–07. The next year, in 1908, they won it again.

Bud Foster, a former University of Wisconsin basketball player, began coaching the Wisconsin Badgers in the 1934–35 season. He led the Badgers to their 12th Big Ten Conference Championship in 28 years in his first season as head coach. Foster guided the Badgers to their one and only NCAA Championship in 1941. The Badgers defeated Washington State 39–34 in the NCAA Tournament championship, thanks to tournament MVP John Kotz and All-American Gene Englund.

After winning the Big Ten Championship that year, it was their first-ever invitation to the NCAA Tournament. During his career, Foster coached three All-Americans: Gene Englund in 1941, John Kotz in 1942, and Don Rehfeldt in 1950. In 1947, the Badgers won another Big Ten title and made their second NCAA Tournament appearance. It would be their first playoff appearance in 42 years and their first appearance in the NCAA in 47 years.

For the following four decades, the Badgers’ dismal results during the last decade of Foster’s tenure would be the norm. The Badgers only had eight winning seasons from 1954 to 1995. They also only had two winning seasons in Big Ten competition and just four fourth-place finishes. Wisconsin has 1639 victories, which places them in the top 50 all-time in college basketball wins.

2022 Key Stats

This season, Wisconsin is averaging 72.7 points per game while allowing only 66.8 points per game. They average 35.8 rebounds per game and 11.6 assists per game.

With 21.7 points per game, Johnny Davis leads the squad in scoring. He also has the most assists on the squad, averaging 2.6 per game. Davis leads the squad in rebounds, averaging 7.5 per game, and steals, at 1.4 per game. Davis is a versatile player for the Badgers.

Championships Won by the Team

Wisconsin has won one NCAA title, and that was back in 1941. They were named the Premo-Porretta Champions three times and the Helms Champion four times. This was prior to the NCAA tournament, however.

Wisconsin has had good success in the conference though as well. Wisconsin has won three conference tournaments but has won the regular-season crown 19 different times.

Important Team Events

One of the biggest rivalry games for Wisconsin each year is the Marquette game. The game is called the I-94 rivalry, and there are just 78 miles that separate the two schools. Overall, Wisconsin leads the all-time series 68-59. These teams play in early December every year, and over the past ten meetings, the series is tied 5-5.

Top Players

Frank Kaminsky was the greatest player in Wisconsin history. Kaminsky was selected Big Ten preseason player of the year before the 2014 season. The Wisconsin Badgers were predicted to win the Big Ten Championship by a unanimous vote.

In games where Kaminsky played, the Badgers went 36-3. With a 16-2 regular-season record and a 16-2 tournament record, they won the Big Ten regular-season and tournament titles. They advanced to their second consecutive Final Four after earning the first 1-seed in NCAA tournament history. They avenged their loss against Kentucky the previous season, defeating the 38-0 Wildcats 71-64 with Kaminsky’s 20 points and 11 rebounds.

The Badgers surrendered a 9-point second-half lead and were beaten 68-63 by the Duke Blue Devils in their first national championship game in 74 years. Kaminsky had 21 points and 12 rebounds in the game.

Kaminsky was chosen to the All-American first team by a unanimous vote. He was named the National Association of Basketball Coaches Player of the Year on March 31, 2015. He was awarded Associated Press College Basketball Athlete of the Year on April 3, becoming the first Wisconsin player to do so since the award’s inception in 1961.

He also won the Oscar Robertson Trophy for College Player of the Year from the United States Basketball Writers Association. He was selected the Naismith College Player of the Year on April 5. He received the John R. Wooden Award and the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center of the Year Award on April 10. Kaminsky was selected Male Athlete of the Year at the University of Wisconsin on June 12. Are we going to see any change this March Madness?

Top Coaches

Former Wisconsin All-American Harold Foster became Wisconsin’s freshmen basketball coach in 1933 and went on to become one of the top coaches in the university’s history. He took over as head coach from Doc Meanwell a year later and stayed there until 1959. His Wisconsin squad won the NCAA title in 1941.

From 1957 to 1966, Foster was the president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches and a member of the Basketball Rules Committee. Foster’s 266 victories were the most in Wisconsin history until Bo Ryan overtook him in 2012; his 267 defeats are still a school record.

When Dick Bennett took over as head coach of the men’s basketball team at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1995, he became another one of Wisconsin’s most successful coaches. The Wisconsin Badgers were invited to the NIT in Bennett’s first season. The Badgers went on to win their first Big Ten Conference game since 1974, and only their second since 1954, a year later.

He led Wisconsin to three NCAA tournament berths, including a Final Four participation in 2000. Prior to his arrival, the Badgers had only appeared in three NCAA tournaments in their entire existence. In 1998–99, Bennett led Wisconsin to its first-ever 20-win season. Bennett resigned three games into the 2000–01 season, claiming exhaustion as the reason for his departure. From 1995 through 2000, he had a perfect 94–68 at Wisconsin.

After Bennett, Bo Ryan was named as the new head coach at Wisconsin after the 2000-01 season. Ryan’s first season was a huge success, much beyond expectations. In preseason surveys, the squad was projected to finish as low as eighth in the Big Ten. The squad, captained by Kirk Penney, finished in a four-way tie for the Big Ten regular-season championship and gained an NCAA Tournament invitation. The Badgers earned their first outright Big Ten regular season title in 56 years in 2002–03 and progressed to the NCAA Tournament’s “Sweet Sixteen.”

In 2004, the Badgers, led by Devin Harris, won the Big Ten Tournament Championship and were invited to the NCAA Tournament for the second time. Wisconsin made it to the NCAA Tournament’s “Elite Eight” in 2004–05 but lost to the eventual national champion North Carolina Tar Heels. Ryan won his 100th game as Wisconsin’s head coach on December 10, 2005, when the Badgers defeated in-state foe, Marquette.

Ryan won his 200th game as Wisconsin’s head coach on December 12, 2009, when the Badgers defeated in-state foe Marquette 72–63 in the Kohl Center. Ryan announced his retirement on June 29, 2015, following the 2015-16 season, and named assistant head coach Greg Gard as his preferred replacement. Gard had previously worked with Ryan at both UW-Platteville and Milwaukee.

Ryan claimed he was “not absolutely sure” whether or not he would retire a month and a half later. After a win over Texas A&M–Corpus Christi on December 15, 2015, Ryan announced his retirement, effective immediately, and Gard took over for the remainder of the season.

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