As painful as it was for UW to fall one game short of its goal, a five-point loss to a fellow No. 1 seed in a closely contested national championship game shouldn’t shake anyone’s belief that this Badgers team was everything the players told us it was. It failed to end a 74-year drought between NCAA titles for the school, but UW made believers out of just about everyone with its stunningly efficient offensive play, its steely resolve late in games and its news-conference antics that amused the nation.
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