ESPN’s Joe Lunardi updated his NCAA tournament bracket for this upcoming season and put the Badgers in as a No. 2 seed in the West region.
NCAAM Bracketology – ESPN. Time for a few tweaks.!🏀👍 https://t.co/uL3N0o4hLF
— Joe Lunardi (@ESPNLunardi) June 24, 2020
This placement of Greg Gard’s team continues the national sentiment surrounding them that the 2021-2022 season will be a special one, as ESPN also has the team ranked No. 6 in its way-too-early top-25.
Lunardi’s potential matchup would see Wisconsin play Eastern Washington in the first round and would see them needing to get by No. 1 seed Gonzaga, No. 3 seed Texas and No. 4 seed Texas Tech if they want to make their first Final Four since 2015.
There hasn’t been this much preseason hype surrounding a Wisconsin basketball team since the Frank Kaminsky and Sam Dekker-led unit came off a Final Four in 2013-14 and returned most of their players for what became another Final Four run in 2014-15.
Will it come to fruition? Only time will tell. But if the end of last season is any indication Gard and company should be in for a successful winter in Madison.