The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program has been among college basketball’s most consistently successful programs during the past two decades and counting.
The people in Wisconsin have Midwestern values. They’re blue collar, hard hat, lunch pail people that appreciate an honest day’s work. They want to see a reflection of themselves on the court, and the Badgers men’s basketball program has given them exactly that.
While Wisconsin isn’t on the same tier as college basketball’s blue-blood programs, it has put together a rather impressive resume of its own:
- National Championships: 1 (1941)
- Final Four Appearances: 4 (1941, 2000, 2014, 2015)
- Elite Eight Appearances: 6 (1941, 1947, 2000, 2005, 2014, 2015)
- Sweet Sixteen Appearances: 10 (2000, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)
Achieving this kind of success required high level coaching, but it also took a handful of extraordinary players capable of elevating the program to new heights.
That begs the question, who would make up Wisconsin basketball’s all-time starting five? Today at the BadgersWire we’re going to unpack who those players should be, and their credentials: