Wisconsin basketball enters the 2024 NCAA Tournament with high expectations and a fanbase starved of postseason winning.
The program is in the midst of a seven-year Sweet Sixteen drought, one which has included two years of missing the tournament entirely (2017-18, 2022-23). That is why the pressure seems to be turned up entering this year’s tournament. The Badgers fanbase badly wants to see head coach Greg Gard defeat No. 12-seed James Madison and No. 4-seed Duke on the way to the Sweet Sixteen, if not further.
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That said, the program still has been a model of consistency since the 1998-99 season under head coach Dick Bennett. Wisconsin has participated in 23 of 25 NCAA Tournaments since that season — omitting the 2020 tournament that the Badgers were qualified for but was canceled.
The Badgers are one of only five programs to boast that feat. Here are those five: